Love is LIVING ON VERIFIED EXPECTATIONS
“Growing up on the streets can have its good and bad sides. The good side if you’re lucky is that you will find a friend who has the spirit of hard work, with whom you can find little jobs to do after school and have some money to help yourself and take some home for the family.
I have such a friend and one day, he saw a girl he really liked. I encouraged him to talk to her and they started dating.
Dating the girl came with its own stress for my friend as he started spending most of the money we made on her upkeep. He hardly saved up much and each time he declined giving money to the girl, they always had issues. I tried to be the middleman making peace between them.”
“This made the lady take a liking to me. One day, my friend gave her money and she used it to buy things for me to get my attention. I respected the friendship I had with my friend and I calmly told him what his girlfriend did. He got so angry and told me he was going to impregnate the girl and dump her. That decision really scared me because we are just young boys about getting into our twenties and we have our future ahead of us. I tried to talk my friend out of this retaliation but he refused.
He said she might’ve been cheating on him with other people even before she tried getting me. When I saw I couldn’t change my friend’s mind, I had to warn the girl.”
“I told her to be careful and try to apologize to my friend if she still wanted to keep the relationship. It was tough, but I monitored my friend till I found an opportunity to talk with him and his girlfriend. I told them it was better they broke up and left each other than mess up their lives. It was tough, but I helped my friend to see some sense in what I was saying and they ended their relationship. Sometimes when I remember it, I shudder in fear; how a young man would’ve ended up impregnating a girl out of anger and jealousy. Glad that didn’t happen.
Tales of Love