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Revenge is one subject that is as old as the human existence. It is an act or feeling towards someone that might have wronged you in one way or another, and sometimes we mistake taking revenge for justice.
During my university days as an undergraduate student at the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, I always did some decoration jobs, and every time I had a job, I would need to rent some things, so I was introduced to this woman that had a shop in school where she rented decoration fabrics.
We exchanged contacts, and when I had jobs, I would go to her for fabrics and flowers, and since she had my contact, she would sometimes view my WhatsApp status when I uploaded some of my work, and so she noticed I was good.
Sometime last year she had a job in Lagos, Nigeria, and called me told me about the job and we agreed on an amount for the job and getting to Lagos. I found out she had lied about the job description because the scope of the job was more than what she had highlighted.
Before we traveled for the job, she told me that I would have to help her team pack up materials at her shop, which I agreed to. Thereafter, she pleaded that she wanted me to join them to pack some things somewhere.
By the time I was done packing those things in town, time was fast spent. I had to go back home, and the money she sent wasn't even up to the amount for my transportation, and with all that stress, since it was late, police held my bike man for late-night movement, which made me get home by 1AM. Thank God for my good neighbor who answered when I called to open the gate for me that night; she was fully aware of this.
And that morning by 5AM we were on our way from Abeokuta to Lagos. We started work very early, and this woman didn't provide food for us, contrary to the agreement we had reached.
After the whole job, we came back to Abeokuta from Lagos that night, and the vehicle she had booked to carry her decorations and luggage couldn't bring us to her shop since we arrived very late and the school gate was already locked.
The next day, Sunday, after church, I had another engagement, and I was at a location when she called to say I would have to go and help her guys offload the vehicle, and I politely declined since I wasn't free at the time. She angrily ended the call and for the next 3 days refused to take my calls.
By the time she answered my call 3 days later and finally paid my money for the job, she deducted two thousand naira from my money. I was so furious that I wanted to take revenge.
Because technically the fact that I always rented materials from her shop made me know where the shop keys were, and I thought of just going there to get hold of something till she paid my money.
But on a rethink I let it slide, and even on my next job in school rented materials from her and paid her in full.
But the implication of her actions is that she has found it difficult to call me for her other jobs, knowing that she wronged me.
By the time I finally got things off my mind, I discussed my planned actions of going to take hold of something with my dad and a friend, and I discovered if I had done that, she could have arrested me for theft.
So sometimes the best revenge is simple: let all things go because in that you would know that you had the will to react, but the true power is in stillness because we don't have control over what people do to us, but we have control over our choice of action in those moments, and that's what gives you peace.
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