Beware, meeting old time friends again

Getting to meet again a friend you have long seen is not a bad thing but you must be careful of how you relate with them because a person you knew 5 years back might not be the same person you meet this year. So many people make this mistake even me, when you've known someone for quite sometimes and they were good people, you have the tendency of trusting them for life even if you haven't met them for years, when you do meet them again, you will want your friendship to continue as usual which it isn't bad, what is bad is now completely trusting them without trying to find out if they have change or not.

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I will be sharing a real life story of my dad below, how this kind of issue affected him, I hope you learn from it.

It all happened few years ago, I was about 8 years of age and my other siblings were somehow young too. My dad was this kind of person that trust people easily but then, when he loses trust in you, he wouldn't trust you again forever even of you've changed. He used to have this good friend while he was in high school, they were very close that they do so many things together. My dad would always tell us about him and how much he misses him even before he got to meet him again, he would tell us about how they eat garri and pepper together 😂 whenever they have nothing to eat and how they study together for exams and also how they pray together even up the point that they were both referred to as pastors and bookworms when they were in school.

One day, they finally got to meet each other at one of their old school mate father's burial and they both exchange contact hoping to rekindle the fire of their friendship. They got really close and they start relating as siblings just like the way they were before though they live in different states far apart from each other but they take out time to visit each other at each other's location. My dad would tell us how rich he has become and that he has so many houses in different states that he use for rent purpose across the country and also the number of cars he has but whenever we try asking him what the nature of his job was, he would always say that he's into import and export business. I could vividly remember my mum always telling to be careful of him because it has been long since they both saw each other and he might have changed, my dad would say that he trust him so much because he has always been a good man of principles and that he is not doing anything illegal.

Something happened and I lost my grandma, we started preparation towards her burial ceremony, we bought some of the stuffs we would be needing for the burial and we were also counting on friends and family that might also want to help in any way they can. We started having support from lots of people even beyond our budget, it was massive but in all of this, my dad's friend never even volunteered to help but we were fine by it because everyone has their own challenges so everything was set as we started looking forward to that splendid day.

The day finally came and all guest started arriving including my dad's good friend and they all partied till dawn. After the party was over, my dad escorted him and some of his other friends to the hotel they would be staying till the next day because they could no longer go to their place since it was late already. By the time they got there, my dad showed them their various rooms but his friend said that he shouldn't go yet and that they should enter his own room together and discuss for a while before he starts to go which my dad agreed to and they entered the room. After a few discussion, he excused my dad to use the bathroom so my dad waited for him in the bedroom till be would be done.

Meanwhile, he forgot to lock his phone and he dropped it on the bed as he was so much in a haste, a notification dropped on it reminding him of the ritual sacrifice he wanted to do and how the deadline was supposed to be that same day, my dad became curious and picked up the phone and go through his messages only to see that he was planning to use him as his sacrifice for that night and that there was something in that room that he will use to touch him so he would become imbecile. He also learnt that he couldn't give out money to help others because of the money ritual he did because that's the rule. On learning this, my dad took to his heels before his friend could even come out of the bathroom and that was how God saved my dad then. I guess when he discovered that my dad has learn about his secret, he wanted to run away and that was how he had an accident and died.

I hope from this story, you have been able to learn that it is not good to trust people too much especially our old time friends that we have been separated from for quite a while. Thank you for reading up until this point. I love you.❤️

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