Ungrateful heart

Some people are used to paying favor with wickedness because they don't appreciate what was done for them, while some are just born that way to pay favor back with evil no matter how hard you try for them.

The world is full of people that doesn't appreciate even when you give them your best, they will never see it as something and that is why it is very hard to get help lately because the good ones are scared of getting betrayed by the bad people out there.

Immediately I moved out of my sister's house because she was getting married, I got a single room in a face me I face-me-I-face-you apartment, if you are from Nigeria you will understand what I meant by that. I was working my ass off to make money because it wasn't easy to stay alone. Bills didn't let me have savings which I wasn't complaining about because here in Lagos you will surely pay for everything you used.

There is this one particular woman in the house who likes to ask people for something which I am not against that because it is better to ask people than to steal. When I was working in a factory all my sauce was always from the factory because that would reduce my foodstuffs money.

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One day, this woman came to ask me for seasoning (maggi) I didn't think twice before I went inside to bring the seasoning for her, she thanked me right there immediately I handed over the seasoning to her. Some hours later I wanted to prepare dinner so on my way outside to fetch water I overheard her telling another neighbor that she didn't like the kind of seasoning I gave to her and that it wasn't sweet. You need to see how she was bragging that she loves to eat something good.

I just smiled and left because that doesn't have any effect on me I have done what I could do so it is left for her to appreciate or not. Some weeks later, my sister came to know where I was living and she brought plenty of vegetables for me.

I couldn't finish such a quantity of vegetables and since I was planning to go to work, I gave my talkative neighbor to share it with the other neighbors on my behalf. The next morning I was cooking and one of my neighbors jokingly asked if it was the woman who gave me the vegetable, I just smiled without saying a word to her.

One week later I heard again that the woman told some of our neighbors that she was the one that gave me vegetables because she couldn't finish it. I wanted to confirm what I heard so I called one of her children to ask where her mom got vegetables from, and I was surprised when the little girl told me that it was their mom who bought plenty of vegetables and shared it for people in the compound.

Then I realized that some people are just like that in nature, they can never be positive, and they will always want to shine in the face of everyone meanwhile they don't have anything. But still, I never stopped giving her whenever I had excess or whenever she asked because I noticed that she didn't have but her character won't let people give her something.

The experience didn't change me it only taught me that we all can never be the same and some people will never appreciate your favor no matter what you do for them. Throughout my stay there, I didn't stop giving to her because I never let that change who I am and what I love doing which is giving people when I have.