Greetings!
Getting used to people has not really been my thing and this is because of the way I was brought up. I was brought up in a way that I was always with my parents and my younger brother.
However in the course of my journey in life, I found out that this life cannot be lived alone as no one is an island of his or her own.
So, it was in my realization of this that I began to relate with people. The first person I related with was Daniel, a very cool and calm boy in appearance, but on getting to know him, his behaviour is not the same as his look.
Like I said earlier, Daniel was a cool and calm guy in the outward, but in the inward, he was not who he looks like. He was into so many devilish acts and the way I was brought up doesn't permit me to live like him.
Although, I was trying to change him to be like myself, but all was to no avail and instead of me changing him to be like myself, he was the one that lured me into who he was.
I could remember him asking me in one of our discussion when I was trying to convince him that his ways would only lead him to hell, he asked and said,
“Sam, do you know that all these things you are talking about are not as bad as you think?” “How?” I asked.
It was then that he told me that taking alcohol is not as bad as people take it to be.
He said,
“Sam, I read in the Bible that Jesus Christ turned water into wine and one thing about most wines is that they are alcoholic drinks.” “No ooo, the water Jesus Christ turned into wine is not alcoholic in nature as I read in the Bible,” I said.
However, one thing about this friend of mine was that he would always argue his way out as he believed he's always right.
He later in his argument convinced me and I fell into his trap and all I have been taught by my parents were erased from my memory.
I started to behave and act like him, I was even more devilish than him as I would do and act more than he would do.
He was even surprised at my turn of life and would always ask me the difference between my former life and the current one.
And since I think I was enjoying my life and myself. I would tell him that there's nothing to life than the kind I was living with him.
So, when it's time for me to go home from school, I decided to keep my new ways of life at school so that my parents wouldn't know nor question my new lifestyle.
However, when I got home, nobody knew what life I have been living, but because of the fact that the character is a flame, my mum got to know that I had changed.
She knew this when she overheard a naughty conversation with a female friend of mine.
Although, she didn't utter a word when she overheard my conversation with the lady, but when it's in the middle of the night, she came into my room and woke me up.
It's then that she told me about who I was talking to in the afternoon. When I heard this, I was shocked and pretended not to have talked to anyone in the afternoon as I flatly denied talking to any lady.
However, she insisted that I talk with a lady and that what she overheard me saying to the lady was not good at all.
She said she wouldn't have expected someone like me who was brought up in a Christian home with a good moral standard to have said all that I said in the afternoon. She said she was disappointed in me.
It's at this point that I started crying as I could not hold myself again. I opened up to her and narrated everything to her.
She felt so sorry for me, although disappointed in everything I told her, she consoled me and encouraged me to be strong and not to go back into that kind of life that Daniel introduced me to.
After she had said this, I thanked her and repented from my bad ways before going back to school.
On getting to school, Daniel thought it's business as usual as he had prepared ladies for a night party for both of us, but when I got to our hostel room, what I did was to pack my belongings and leave for where my parents just got for me.
And that's how I disengaged myself from Daniel and started living my former and normal life. Although he tried to reach me, I didn't make myself available for him to be reached.
Thanks for reading.
Some friendships lead nowhere, and it's best to distance yourself. You did the right thing with that bad friendship.
Thanks for sharing your experience with us.
Good day.
A very deep one I must say...
I love how that you stood your ground at the end of the day even when he was reaching out. It's not that easy to choose oneself, but you did and it spoke volume.
Thanks for sharing.
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