What Stories do You Share About People’s Life?

Have you ever read or heard the story of your life being lived by someone else? How shocking or surprising was it?

See, until the lion learns to write, every story will always glorify the hunter. Beware of half truth, you may have gotten hold of the wrong half.

Do you realize that no one has ever authored a book entitled “Story of my Crime Life?” But many have written many books on their success stories and even such books do not tell their life’s stories in full.

Do you think every saint today never had a crime or sinful life? Why do you take pleasure in telling false stories about someone’s life? What is your gain?

Does it make you better or embittered? Why recruit an army of haters for someone who has done nothing wrong at all to you just to satisfy your ego?

Why choose to hurt and blackmail someone whose only intention was to make you happy?

It hurts that many spend a lot of time and even have sleepless nights thinking of how to raise some people up, and many of those people also spend their night planning of how to bring those who plan to bring them up, down.

It feels bad to hear a story about yourself that you never even dreamt of, and you will begin to wonder if actually there is another person out there that goes around with your body to commit those crimes.

Obviously, some people who disguise themselves as friends are very terrible. You call someone your friend, yet you go to blackmail that same friend of yours to a stranger you just met just to be a good person.

Now, that your stranger-friend is your blackmailed friend's personal person. He goes back to tell his friend what you said about him. Who is fooling who?

Not everyone who is with you is actually for you, and not everyone who is not with you is actually against you. The rate friends are condemning friends these days is becoming unbecoming.

Ending your friendship with someone is never the end of your life. Do not spend your entire time trying to assassinate the other person’s character because he or she is now doing better than when both of you were in a relationship.

There could a time he or she was very good to you and you might have once said “I don’t know how my life would have been without you; you are the best thing that ever happened to me”.

Some people know and have heard the stories you have spread about them, yet they still help you and you keep smiling sheepishly eating their food thinking you are smart.

You will be forming a good friend in their presence, while they will be like “see this one, maybe he thinks I don’t know what he has gone around saying about me”.

If you want to tell someone’s life story, let it be that it is nothing than the true story, because you may be making yourself an enemy of the open society unconsciously by sharing false stories of someone.

The lesson here is that no matter how good and honest you are, many of the stories people will share about your life will always be a few steps behind reality, and in most cases false.

Jesus didn’t write a book about himself. You won’t find any book called “The Story of Me” by Jesus, nor did he pass out flyers after raising Lazarus from the dead. But yet many wanted him dead and even accused him of things he never said.

He never promoted himself saying, “There’s, even more, I can do!” Instead, his message was the opposite. There’s more you can do, even more than he was doing. There is more you can do with your life than spending time spreading false stories.

He didn’t need to promote himself because when one’s actions are that stunningly poetic people won’t forget.

He was not idle. Don’t make yourself idle, else your ego will use you. When you are not idle, the world will find out about you, too, without a lot of promotion on your part.

We are still talking about the prodigal son today as a bad son, even when he wasn’t bad. He never stole the wealth he sold, it was given to him legitimately by his father and he sold them and spends the money as he likes. He only lacked mentorship, no one advised him.

This means people will keep talking about you. So give your best in your dealings with people. But let your stories about people not be ones that will bring them down, but the ones that will “RAISE THEM UP”.

Udondia Petermary
23/06/2021