BEFORE KARMA
Dear Diary,
I wish people know that the way you treat others will directly or indirectly affect you.
Beyond the laws of karma, it’s only human when
people treat you the exact same way you treat them. Call it “Garbage in,
Garbage out, if you want; but the shit is real.
A couple of days ago, MJ, my friend, went to do her registration
at school and was number twenty-something on the queue. We had planned to wait
till she was done before we got lunch, but 2:00pm came and it was not even
close to her turn. I decided to walk to a nearby supermarket to get myself
something to eat in the meantime, because I was hungry.
So I walked into this store and took a McVities shortbread
and a drink (someone must've used this combination to curse meπ€¦), then walked to
the cashier to pay for my goods.
And this was where the devil had planted someone to try to
ruin my day.
The cashier, a woman above thirty, eyed my goods and opened
the cash register. Then looked at me and said, “I don’t have change.”
“Okay,” I said, “Would you have change if I dropped the drink
and took only the biscuit?”
She sighed impatiently and said, “No.”
If I wasn’t so hungry, I would have gone back to shelve the
goods and just walked out of the store to go satisfy my hunger somewhere else. But I was so hungry, and the next store was far
away.
“Just pick a sweet.” The woman said to me. She had a look on
her face that said I was disturbing her.
I glanced hesitantly at a transparent jar of sweets. I didn’t
like the idea.
If it was a different store, I wouldn’t have been irked. But
I was a regular customer to this particular store and they did it every time! I
found it annoying that they didn’t always have change, and the fact that they
always “coerced” their customers to use their change to buy sweets.
As insignificant as the “change” was, I believe it was still
my call! And if since I started patronizing them, the store had made me use
lose up to two-hundred Naira in total, buying sweets, I had a right to be annoyed.
What exactly is their plan? To make me a diabetic?
These thoughts ran through my mind when the woman said, “See,
if you’re not ready, move to this side.” She pointed to the edge of the
counter, and started attending to the next customer.
Do they tell these people that it is unprofessional to treat
a customer that way?!
I didn’t think so, but I was not going to be the one to tell her. I overlooked her actions, paid for my biscuit, drink and (very annoyingly,) sweets.
But I didn’t forget the woman’s face. I forgive, but rarely
forget.
Maya Angelou was spot on when she said,
Anyway the point is, later that week, I was an usher at an
event, and I was in charge of serving guests food. Our team’s slogan was “Treat
them like royalty.”
The professional that I am, I adhered strictly to that rule
and tried to make everyone I came across truly feel like royalty.
But I was to serve the table near the stage, when I sighted
a familiar face. Guess who was seated in a purple lace with an oversized gele on her head?
You guessed it! It was her. The cashier.
Dear diary, all I have to say is, ‘Thank God for Jesus.’ When
negative emotions began to well up inside me on seeing her, the love of Jesus
constrained me.
In the end, I treated her like royalty...Courtesy of the Holy
Spirit, of course.
This made me smile... Thank God for Jesus and the Holy Spirit
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πππππ thank God for the Holy spirit, if not, her and that her oversized gele for see hunger face to face that day.
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DeleteThis made me laugh too,thank you Holy Spirit
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ReplyDeleteI can imagine that feeling!
Spot on.
People'll forget what you said or did.
But they'll never forget how you made them feel
You got it!π
DeleteThank God for the holy spirit. I totally agree when you said, people will forget what you said and what you did but they'll never forget how you made them feel. Thank God for the comforter guiding us. More grace and more inspiration
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Thank you Id
This is a superior show of grace that humbles the haughty without bitterness.
ReplyDeleteYes sir!π₯
DeleteThank you for reading, sir.❤️
Beautiful. Jesus didn't treat the soldiers the way they treated him. He only prayed for them. Many people act the way they do because they haven't encountered Christ. We must therefore point them to Christ through our disposition. May the Lord help us always in such situations. Amen π
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DeleteThank you for reading, Lizzy Prayo
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DeleteThank you Eunice, for being real with us.
ReplyDeleteI think one way to know you is through your writings.
Keep it upπͺ
Really, you are doing something amazing .✨
More grace π✨π
Thank you SamSho!
DeleteYour thoughts are correct πππ«