I don't know if we know this, but the reason our lives seems to be going in different directions with that of the people we grew up with, is most likely because of one different decision that we took somewhere along the line in our lives, that decision is what changed our paths and now you're on a whole different journey.
I was going through some WhatsApp status today and I saw this high school friend of mine. At a certain time, we both used to be really close, almost like best friends but somewhere along the line, everyone went their different ways.
I saw a picture of his that he posted today on WhatsApp and in that picture, he was in the midst of some bad guys. These guys are Internet fraudsters who do nothing but smoke, take hard drugs and defraud unsuspecting victims everyday. I saw that picture and I asked myself if I would had been in that picture if I hadn't made that one decision that set me on a different path from his.
You see unlike that my friend, I had decided to further my education after high school and that made me travel to the other end of the country to school, while he stayed behind, doing nothing. So I can only imagine that somewhere down the line, he got mixed up with some bad guys and now he doesn't just smoke, he now defraud people and also take drugs.
I had gone to visit him about a year ago when I was on holiday and that was when I first got to know that we were already on a different path and our friendship wasn't going to be what it used to be. We both sat, reminiscing about high school, when another friend of ours who also went to the same high school with us came around. We continued our conversation and maybe they felt I was into the kind of things they were into, because they started talking about the last time they went to pick up a call-girl and took her to a hotel.
I was shocked and surprised when I heard them say that because before then, I didn't know they had gotten to that level, but I quickly masked the surprise on my face, in other not to make them feel like I was judging them, and I tried to flow along with the conversation, all in a bid to not make them feel like I was now looking at them in a certain kind of way.
After I left his place that evening, I realized that the friend I knew all those years ago has now grown to become someone else and it was either I joined him or I give him my distance. I had done the latter.
Though I do feel like he wouldn't had turned out this way if he had taken the same path I had took and furthered his education. But hey, no one knows the future and everything does happen for a reason.
A few days ago, I saw a lady on Twitter
Her username is Jellybum. She was my brother's classmate when we all were in primary school.
She's now a pornstar and a lesbian. I was wondering what bad decision she must have taken. It is true that people change with time
Wow. I'm sure your brother must had been surprised when he found out. Anyways like I said, different path, different destination.
We are what we are today because of the decision we took some years back. It had a way of shaping our lives negatively or positively. Life is a choice, we choose any path we feel is good and I hope some wrong choice doesn't cause some people regrets. Your friend has taken his decision and it's good you stay away with his life style since it's not the path u want for your life. I admire your decision on this prayzz
Life will keep unfolding things as we go and our decision will always play a sensitive part
You've said it all Nkem and I completely agree with you.
Glad you did 😍
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