THAT ONE FRIEND

There are many societal activities that may affect a persons mental health negatively, either short term or long term. Office personnel's and their problems, relationship troubles, friendships and many other things.

Though somewhat underrated, mental health is one of the most vital things to keep in check. The reasons for this is pretty much obvious.

Just like every body, there are many ups and downs that I've faced in my journey through life. Navigating is hard, but then, the hard ones are sometimes, the best ones. On a scale of ten, the stability of my mental health is about 7 or there about.

Work load, maintaining a good social life, family responsibilities, friends, thinking of other problems to be solved, emergency situations and many other situations are enough to drive a person go mental without they knowing it.

There are many times when the peace of my mental health is threatened, in some of these times, cutting the stressor out seems impossible, but then, there are times when the only option is to cut off the stressor.

Now that I think of it, there have actually not been a time when I went out to another city, for some days just to cool off, but then, cutting off people that are threats to my mental health is as easy as eating pizza.

I've had a couple of friends that are really toxic in nature. Every time, they always bring troubles to my door step, and I have no option than to solve I because I am indirectly, or sometimes, directly affected. It's such a drag.

In some of my posts, I talked about how I used to be one of these scammers but then, i took a different route and vowed never to engage in such inhumane actions.

When I was there, in Owerri town of imo state, me and restlessness was brothers and sisters because that was when SARS started barging into rooms, in search of scammers. Back then, I was a decent and responsible looking scammer with an innocent face, but then, the guilt of the things i did haunted me.

Not only that, I was forced to always fight along side him when he offends other cult groups. I was not a cultist but I had to impersonate them by learning a thing or two about their group.

There was one day when he hacked somebody's bank account and withdrew the funds, knowing fully well that the person was his fellow scammer and equally a cultist.

The did was done, and the results of his actions followed as the guys threatened to take immediate action against him. They know me as his friend, so, I was not spared from their evil plans.

After all set and done, the front and the back, I was able to settle the issue by giving them a refund. It took a while to settle all the issues, but then, I did it successfully. What's more? My friend who started all these things, felt no remorse for his actions. Though he was scared, he refused to take responsibility.

It took a while going back and front before I made the hard decision of leaving Owerri because I was really drained mentally. I could not hold on for long, though I had money, that was not the kind of money I wanted, my conscience became my worst enemy as it always taunt me anytime i spent money. With all these, I could not take it anymore, so, I left there. I left him the money, and everything and decided to start a new. He hacked my Gmail, which made me annoyed, but then, i had to let go.

I went back to home and I decided to chill out. There I found ultimate peace. I was once an enemy with myself, but then, I became one with myself after I let go of that one friend. After that incident, I decided to enroll in a nursing school, and that's when my career kick started.

Currently, with the experience I have gotten, I am always observing and taking note of even the slightest mistakes.

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