I HAD TO RESPOND TO SOMEONES COMMENT ON A STATUS I POSTED SOMETIME BACK. AND I PROMISE THIS IS MY LAST TAKE ON THIS ISSUE. MR Stevewhite Abiaka, gratitude is not payback. It shows you are well brought up. It has nothing to do with who gave you anything. However, since you have decided to defend the absurd, let me set you right. There is nothing I can give to a Dangote that he can not afford. I know the difference in financial status. I also know the home I come from. If someone has shown you generosity over 6 or 8 times, and you have not in ANYWAY BEEN ABLE TO RECIPROCATE, that the person has not taken a phone to call you personally, when you had an accident is the least thing to worry you. Besides, between the last time the person showed you generosity, you have not been able to call him to say, I hope you got home safe. Many months after the person left Lagos to HONOUR you, in Ibadan, he drove back home, in the dead of night, not one phone call. Yet you are upset that you did not get a call, and that the person only thanked God for your life on a Facebook posting, when you had an accident. My point, which you and many who do not know the meaning of gratitude but like to seek generosity, may not get is, when you have not shown appreciation for peoples generosity, you have no right to wonder why generosity was withdrawn from you. Time is expensive. Time used to call you is generosity. In fact, the same call up to check on someone to know how they are doing, that you failed to do, is what you are expecting someone else to extend to you. THAT IS SELFISH ON ALL LEVELS. The reason I posted that status is because we have become a society that thinks the haves have no life but to take anything the have-not dish out to them. Which is why, a big man who sacks a driver for colluding with his mechanic to lie that his engine needs replacement, and fired him, is called heartless. And the question people will then ask as always is, SO NOW THAT HE HAS SACKED HIM, WHAT DOES HE WANT THE DRIVER TO DO TO PAY HIS BILLS?... And if the issue is brought up, they throw forgiveness into the fray. The status and the comments that it attracted has revealed that pity for the underdog has blinded our society from teaching the values of generosity. The Godly thing to do is to give without asking for a receipt... But even Jesus Christ teaches that you must show gratitude when he talked of the healing of 10 people and only one came back to say thank you. For your information, Donor fatigue, is easily induced by lack of generosity. That said, I have ALWAY been good to the guy in question. I was not expecting anything from him. In fact, I go out of my way to please him because he is that kind of touchy guy, who would tell everybody of how you did not give him 2 NAIRA, but fail to mention when you gave him 20 bucks. I actually had set a trap, waiting for the day he will call for a FAVOUR and I will gladly say NO, after drawing his attention to why he doesnt deserve it. We have a bunch of people like Stevewhite, who are the reason, these ingrates are still finding FAVOUR. We keep tolerating them with the saying of we are doing it for God, just do what you can let God deal with the ungrateful lot, giving without expecting gratitude is the real giving... Blah blah blah Keep it up. I know it is because it has not happened to you...
Posted on: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 10:05:59 +0000
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