Life’s Contrasts: Unexpected Kindness and Painful Betrayals

Sometimes we meet people who impacts our lives or show us kindness in a way that we never expected it. On the other hand, we also receive ill treatment from people who we thought or expected to be nice to us. That's how it is in the world we find ourselves in; there are extremely good people, not necessarily relatives, who don't hesitate in showing kindness to humans whenever they can. Some of them can go to any length sacrificing their time and resources to see that you are happy, and most times, I wish that our world was filled with such rare gems.

The truth is that everyone of us is capable of expressing kindness to people in different forms not necessarily through finance, but not everyone chooses to express it, perhaps for a reason but whenever I meet these kind of rare gems who are selfless, I hold them tightly not because of the future kindness I may receive from them again, but because of the kind of values they have within which is worthy of emulation.

A lot of people have shown me kindness in this life, even some rare kindness, I feel like I do not merit it. Most times, I am left with the question, "What did I do to deserve this kind of love?" I also have expressed kindness to others, but there is this kindness I received from a person I never expected such a thing from, which I will share with you.

Good enough, this person, I met her on Hive here, but she is from a different country with mine. To be sincere, we do relate very well, asking about our personal lives and families, but for once, I never expected that someone who doesn't know me physically could be so kind to me, so concerned about me and my family and our financial growth to the extent of funding my offline business. It started like a joke; she asked me one day if I do other things aside from blogging. And I told her that I have a business that has been a work in progress, but I paused for over a year ago because of the capital involved. She expressed heavy concern about how she wants me to grow financially and live my dream life and how kicking off the business can bring me closer to living the kind of life I anticipated.

To my greatest chagrin, she requested my Binance ID, and two days later, I received plenty of USDT from her. It was the most shocking act of kindness I received that month; even my husband thought I was playing a prank on him until I converted the whole USDT to fiat, and it read in million. She didn't stop there; she kept showing concern about my progress so far with the business, giving me more ideas on how to go about the steps I am taking. Indeed, life is more beautiful with this kind of rare gem around us.

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There was also a time I was treated poorly by someone I thought should be nice to me, especially because we are closely related. But then, it is what it is! I had wanted to leave the village and go to the city for a holiday back then when I was still in secondary school. I decided to follow one of my uncles back to the city where he resides with his wife and his children, unknown to me that I would be treated like a nobody. I still find it difficult to understand why people treat someone living with them poorly as if they aren't humans, because since I started my new family, I have been living with people and never see reasons why I should treat anyone like a nobody.

Sadly, people are different and act differently; unfortunately, we can hardly control people's behavior and stance about life. My uncle, in collaboration with his wife, treated me badly, from poor feeding to hard chores at my age then, to risking my life to places they usually sent me at night, and to refusing to treat me when I fell ill. I feel painful remembering the whole experience back then, but it's a lesson after all.

To be sincere, our relationship since then has been shaky a bit; I don't know how to pretend, but I still respect them, but obviously, I set my boundaries with them to date.

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This is my response to the #HiveLearners community contest on the topic titled, Unexpected Places and People.

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