By FOR a long time, I restrained myself from sharing this story but I guess I just have to share it; there should be a lesson for everyone to learn from it.
When I was working as an N-Power volunteer in one of the public schools in Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State; I was the Assistant Class Teacher for one of the classes in JSS1. The following year, I was assigned as the Class Teacher for the same pupils; they were in JSS2 then.
Titilope Ogundele at UI
There were these two girls in this particular set; they were siblings. One of them was in the class I was assigned to; so, for two years, I was her class teacher.
N-Power was stopped abruptly and I moved on to a higher level in my career.
After I left the school; I would see these girls around the University of Ibadan helping their mum to sell some things.
The funny thing is, these girls would see me and they would not greet me; even the one that was in my class, whom I used to relate with, would just ‘waka pass’.
Well, I took it upon myself to always greet them first. Yes, they would respond to my greeting but these girls would answer with their noses as if I was forcing them to answer me. I saw them often and I continued to greet them.
However, I was not comfortable with their attitude. I mean, I took it upon myself to greet them first and they would barely answer me.
This bothered me for a long time and I thought of the best way to handle the matter; I wanted to call them and counsel them. They needed to know that such an attitude would not help them in their life journey.
Sincerely, not because of me, their greetings would neither add nor take anything from me but I felt if they continued that way, they may have challenges in life. I’m not God anyway.
Eventually, I just let them be. I stopped greeting them and left them to their folly. That is not my style though and sometimes I still feel I should have spoken to those girls but I just ‘carry eyes commot’. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
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