Helpers and Hell-pars!

Sincere people give assistance because it’s a moral responsibility and because they know it’s the right thing to do. Some will help provided that the outcome of the support will not catapult the beneficiary to their level or to a status higher than theirs. Others will help as long as there’s something in it for them, mostly a fat cut or when the gain is expected to be mutual.

Some will be of assistance so long as the beneficiaries will continue to act and feel as though they owe them their lives and to take blame for ingratitude if they dissatisfy this expectation. Some will help because everyone is, and perhaps helping under the circumstances is expected to give them an entitlement to boast about it.

Some will prefer not to help because they had everything through suffering. These are mostly adults that will always say: “you know what, growing up, I never had half of what you are calling for and I made it”. I call that ‘generational grudge’ because such people cannot accept the fact that in the interest of progress and growth, opportunities, approaches, preferences and circumstance must not remain as before.

The empty talkers are those who’ll try to make you believe that everyone from every part of your life owes you and should hand everything to you on a silver platter. I remember throwing punches due to something like that. One idiot of a friend decided to violate my family defence policy by claiming that it was about time my mom winds down her travels and focus on me going. I was like:”Bloody hell! You know why she travelled? In truth, if your mama’s anything like mine you would've finished high school” and then we rumbled.

There are others who will neither help nor see someone helping. They’ll rather everyone fail woefully, than see someone else succeed. You know, those short-sighted people that will say: “if I don’t have it, you wouldn't have it". Attempting to rise above mediocrity in the environs of that sort of mentality can be so confounding, but Olof Njie nay: jaxlay, jaxaan di halat faju ko. Donc defal sa def (si pet) and let your success be a shock.