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My father died when I was a child. When he was alive, I saw how he helped his relatives and friends financially. He helped people start businesses and get jobs, he paid school fees for many of their children. Anyone who came to our house asking for money, he always gave and never said no. Then he died and everyone he had ever helped disappeared. None of his relatives or friends he helped ever checked up on me after he died. I have finished school and Iβm working and fortunate to be making some money. Now people are suddenly appearing, remembering me and asking me to help them with money. I absolutely do not want to go down the path my father did. I donβt plan to give money to everyone who asks. But I feel very guilty because I know there is a lot of suffering and hardship in Nigeria. I know there are people who truly cannot even afford three meals a day. But my dilemma is if I start helping now, they will keep coming back again and again and again and I really donβt want this. My phone is filled with tons of people asking me for money to help them eat and I just donβt want to have people financially dependent on me. Majority of them never picked up the phone to check on how I was doing over the years after my father died. Theyβve all suddenly appeared now that they know Iβm making money. I donβt know how to handle this because like I said, I donβt want to be sending money to people who never cared for me but I also feel guilty because of the level of hardship in Nigeria.
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