Thread by @GhenhisKhan, Great Oracle @AbdulMahmud01’s #HonestQuestion tweets got me thinking . My reply to [...]

Great Oracle @AbdulMahmud01’s #HonestQuestion tweets got me thinking . My reply to the tweet also reminded me of a tweet thread I had planned on doing last night on Jealousy.

I think I will try and do it now since @aedcelectricity has struck again

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I will start with myself and how I nearly hot entrapped in a jealous mood against a friend.

We served both masters, for at least 22 years now. But I was always the one doing stuff for the master. Never hoped for any form of reward back. I cherished the relationship above all 1/

I could wake at odd hours of the day and place a call to him and he’d immediately pick up and listen to what I wanted to say no matter how mundane it may sound. We would even discuss stuff as silly as #GOT series 2/

Master is someone that even the high and mighty actually have to fill forms or fix appointments before they can get to see him but me ? I don’t need any appointment or notice to see him. I can just walk in and walk out at will and nothing will happen 3/

Hardly is there any aspect of his business or dealings that I do not know about in-depth. That is the kind of relationship I have with him. Between me and him , it has always been pure love and admiration and dedication 4/

Oga has given everyone who literally hasn’t served him with dedication as me almost everything they needed and even made moves to establish them but somehow passes me over everytime and yet I never notice it and continue with my discharge of duties and love and dedication 5/

Then something happened some days ago. One of my fellow soldiers decided to chart a course for himself and moved over to another close pal of oga and had me working on some things for him and sometimes almost the same things I do for oga 6/

Just under 2 months, the pal to our oga decides that his dedication to duty ought to be rewarded and gifted him a brand new SUV.

I saw it and screamed “just 2 months?!!Me wey don de service for 22 year no even get wrist watch

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That thought alone immediately opened the door for jealousy to creep in. Mused over it for about 2 minutes and then my senses returned immediately. I realized that I was about to lose my soul to a strange entity which could destroy everything Inhad built over the years 8/

I quickly shut the door to my heart to the evil about to take control of it and said to myself “what exactly do you think you don’t have already that this one wants to turn your heart green ?”

Calm relief returned, I looked around and smiled and said “you have all you need”8/

Imagine all the fine moments you have had with many people others seek to get an opportunity with them even if its for 1 minute and yet you have all of them at a dial and they answer. “Friends that are worth more than Gold” . Thats what you have. But we miss it sometimes. 9/

Going back to Great Oracle’s question, you’d see that most times people are in a competition with you without you knowing. They want what you have and will go any length to have it even if it means them destroying your very existence . 10/

People will always want what you have. It could be your girlfriend or wife or job or friends or even your pet. Basic point is; why must you be happy ? Why do you have a right to be happy? Why does good things always have to happen to you? This fuels their jealousy 11/

They will tell lies about you, attempt to even poison your drink if they get the opportunity like someone once suggested to some folks here in their whatsapp group when they felt I was their stumbling block to get to one big man 12/

I remember the ones who wrote letters to many people and those that sent text messages. Wetin be their problem? Why must Nimrod be allowed to even have a lease of life to even think to be happy or comfortable or even feed so tey e de feed dogs

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I remember one that I even signed on its employment letter and that one turned around to try to undermine me. Went to oga and said “do you know that he is an ex-cultist and its not good for your image?”

Oga looked at him & said “are you aware I have known him since boyhood?14/

Or the one who traveled to see my girlfriend to my own house oh while I was away in Borno for Sero-Prevalence survey with LCBC and ate my food and then started tales of how “that guy is a murderer and a crook and thief and a rapist” .Apparently he did not know it was my house 15/

Baba chopped two plates of Eba with Okro soup made by me and stored in the freezer before gisting my babe all the nonsense he came to gist her. The only thing he succeeded with was that babe did not know much about my uni years so it all came as a shock to her. 16/

Babe left eventually when I had to explain that boys had to be boys in a university but the parts about rape etc were all lies. Wetin man go do kwanu? She says she wants to go , you let her go. Sad thing be say now she de always call to check up after many years 17/

I can’t say they have stopped till daye though. Last year,one of them here saw one big man on this app RT my tweet and jumped into his car to go to see the man and asked him “why did you RT that tweet from that Nimrod guy? Do you know what he is capable of doing to your name?”18/

But as the bible says “ the blood will always speak on your behalf”, baba finished talking and big man said “ I have watched him for years and he has one thing that many don’t have- LOYALTY to a fault” . 19/

I can give many instances but then that would make this an extremely long thread and thus lose its essence.

Question: What fueled all these moves by these people?

Answer : JEALOUSY

Not a good emotion at all.... 20/

If anything, be happy for others.

No matter what , do one thing ONLY

GUARD YOUR HEART WITH ALL DILIGENCE FROM JEALOUSY AND ALL FORMS because from it flows SPRINGS OF LIFE

Shalom

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