Good day to everyone in this brilliant community on Hive. It is another beautiful edition of this Hivelearners initiative, and a very big thank you to a tbe sponsors who have kept it going for as long as it has.
This time, we have been asked to discuss unexpected places and people with regards to unusual and surprising acts of kindness, and unexpected negative acts of someone we didn't think was capable of such. Personally, what comes to mind first is the negative thing, so I'll be starting with that. Enjoy.
Three years ago in the university, I happened to be roommates with this fella named Chinedu(name changed for privacy reasons, which is a bit ironic coz we just discussed that in the previous edition😂). Let me correct that though, we weren't roommates, not legally anyways. He was squatting with me. All hell broke loose(exaggeration) when I chased him out of the room, and he hasn't spoken to me since then. Why did this happen, you ask?
Well, the room he was staying in was assigned to me at the start of the new session and he was supposed to vacate the room because his tenure is the room had lapsed and he had been assigned to another room. The issue, however, was that the occupant of his new room was a final year student exams, so he would be floating around for about 2 months before he is able to move in after the final year student moves out. Don't ask me why that's the case, all I know is all systems in Nigeria are beyond dysfunctional. Anyways, he asked to remain in the room since I wasn't supposed to have a roommate also, till his space got vacant.
He had been the only occupant of the room before, so I guess he had gotten used to that life and didn't really know how to accommodate another person well. The first shock to me was when he asked me where I was gonna put my cupboard in the room, that there was no space in the room; my room. Next, he said there was no space for me to put my bed because of his load, that I should be sleeping on his bed with him. By the way, the guy is most likely gay, or at least, bisexual; and it's not just speculation, there's proof. No hate to anyone reading this who happens to be gay, it's a free world. I ultimately won those issues.
The next issue came when he would bring some lady friends over to the room and they were often loud. He then proceeded to ask if a corper friend of one of his female friends could squat with us for two weeks while sorting out his accomodation in Ibadan.
I tolerated all of that coz I'm quite a simple guy that doesn't get pissed easily and needs little.
It all ended when he decided to start gaslighting me and attempting to boss me around in my own room with a good serving of insult. I couldn't take it anymore and told himI would have the hall porters chase him out of the room if he doesn't pack out himself. It took some doing, but it finally got done. He was out and I was free.
He hasn't spoken a word to me since then even though I still saw him just last week. To that, I say, Good Riddance.
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An unexpected moment of kindness or thoughtfulness, as I like to think of it, would be when my girlfriend(I know, not a stranger) bought me a hardcopy book for my birthday last year which was on July 29. The book is titled The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel. Our relationship was only 9 days old officially at the time, which made it all the more meaningful. The fact that she understands very early on what phase of life and the things that matter most to me at the moment meant a lot to me. I had started reading the soft copy of the book a week prior and she got me a hard copy of it. I have since digested the book, and it is a gift that I will most certainly not forget in a hurry.
I hope we all run into many kind people in our lives.