Doing good pays

Greetings!

Dayo was a friend of many years and when we first met, he was a blessing to me. In fact, he would not allow me to suffer as he would always look for my need just to supply it to me.

There's was a day he came to me and asked saying,

“Sam, how are you doing?” “ I'm fine,” I replied. “Hope you don't want or need anything?” “Not at all, friend,” I answered.

However, even with me telling him that I was not in need of anything, he was pestering me to tell him my need and I began to search deeper into my spirit and my heart just to be sure I was not in need of everything, but I couldn't find anything needed, but even at that, Dayo still made sure he gave me foodstuffs and ten thousand naira.

This guy was really a blessing to me as I have said earlier as he would always supply all my needs back then, in fact, he was an angel of provision sent to me.

But all of a sudden, everything changed and a person that once used to have began to lack and beg for food and money.

When I saw him begging for food and alms, I was not happy and this was because of the fact that I knew who he was and how useful and nice he has always been not to me alone, but to everyone around him.

So, I called him and we met and when we met, I asked him saying,

“Dayo, how are you?” He replied and said, “I'm fine.” “Hmm, I know that you are not fine at all,” “why did you say that,” he asked. “I can see it in you that you are not fine, because this is not your normal self,” I said unto him.

I made him know in our conversation that even the blind can feel his present situation and like the deaf can hear what he was passing through.

When he heard all that I had said, he bursted into tears and told me that he had been drained of his resources. I asked him why and that was when he started to tell me that, a friend of ours who I know very well was the one who introduced him to invest into a ponzi scheme and that as he approached cashing out on his investments, the ponzi scheme crashed and that's how he lost he had laboured for.

He continued and said that,

“Sam, it's only you that have called me and asked me what was wrong.” “How?” I asked.

It's then that he narrated his ordeal in the hands of the people he has once helped, he said instead of them encouraging him and embracing him in his difficult time, he said the reverse is the case as they were only mocking him and making jest of his new difficult life.

After we had discussed at length, I held his hand and promised him that I would stand by him and I encouraged him not to give up as he would rise up again.

So, after all I have said and with all my promises to him, I saw in him his lifted spirit and seeing being lifted, I was lifted up in my spirit and since then, the journey to total recovery started and looking back to what this guy, Dayo has once done for me, I put in all my efforts to bringing him back to life even with my little resources.

We both started the journey together and I introduced him to my building materials supplying business. Although this business of mine was so strange to him as he had no idea of the business before now, with my own little experience, I was able to put him through and with the little we were earning from the business, we were able to live with the profit.

Furthermore, I can see that Dayo is regaining his confidence and he was always thankful to me for assisting him, but whenever he does this, I would always tell him not to mention as he has done much more for me in the past.

I used to remind him of how he has helped me with the capital which I have used to start up the business and he would be like he couldn't even remember when he gave me the money, but to him, he might have forgotten, but for me I would never forget what he who had once been my benefactor has done for me in the past which has brought me to this my current status.

So, after months of our doing things together, Dayo has now become the master of the business and I told him to go and stand on his own and now without me, he's doing well and much even better than when we thought he was fine back then and I'm happy for him and to be part of his recovery story.

Thanks for reading.

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