Friends are blessings from God, and their roles in our lives are enormous. A true friend can go through thick and thin with us just so they can see us all succeed and sail through life challenges. Having the right set of friends in one's life is a great edge and one step towards living a fulfilled life because, aside from their assistance, they can as well go on to fill our lives with wonderful memories birthed from shared experiences of times spent with them, and in 2024, I'm pleased to know I've got a bargain when acquiring friends.
Being an introvert, I'm not the type of person who easily makes friends. I mean, since I don't really have many social interactions or public speaking, making a friend can be very difficult, except for a few that are birthed via work, church, or places I usually visit, and looking back at the year 2024, I can see that my personality traits play a huge role in the number of friends I made because I can only think of one, and that's in person of Kehinde.
Although I did meet lots of new people in 2024, despite how much we communicate, I can't call everyone my friend because, as a person, we must have had several things in common for me to address you as my friend. Having mutual respect and being someone with my kind of mentality is another criterion; that's someone who can easily guide me in the right direction, an intelligent individual who isn't shy to tell me the truth when I'm going astray or doing something wrong.
I met Kehinde at a friend's place one fateful day in 2024 when I paid that friend a visit, and I joined in the conversation they were having before I arrived. It was quite intrusive for me to see a lady for reason and talk the way she does, especially in this age of Gen Z generations where the reverse is the case in the mentality of most of them. It's not like I don't align with most of those mentalities, but some of them are just absurd.
Well, from that conversation, I got to actually enjoy talking to Kehinde, and I was about to say we'll meet some other times to continue the conversation when I was told she stays in another city entirely, and we decided to share contact. Even though I'm not much of a personal chatter, I must say that knowing her has been a blessing in many ways for me. Aside from talking, on several occasions she has helped me attend to some task that would have brought me to the other city.
Not forgetting giving me valuable advice about some things I wanted to do, one of which was when I got fed up about the state of electricity in my neighborhood and how we've not had electricity in over four months, I told her I was planning to buy and install a solar panel that'll not only be able to give me electricity but also be able to make me use all my home appliances.
While she felt it was a great idea, she pointed out some lapses, like how I'll have several panels on the roof of my rented house and how it might seem in the sight of the owner of the house, not forgetting how I might get too comfortable there and forget about the need to build my own house and move there. I key into her perspective and see things in a new light, even though I badly needed the electricity; I decided to invest the money in buying land and working on it.
That way, when that is completed, I can peacefully install all the solar panels and stuff without the need to uninstall and start moving the show in case my landlady wants to make use of her house and send me packing. That particular advice and several others are why I'm pleased I have her as a friend, and it's a shared responsibility, as I've also helped and given advice in my own ways too.
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