The Eid Fitr celebration happened in my house three days ago and I so much enjoyed myself. The only reason I feel I didn’t enjoy was because I worked too much. I was part of those who did the cooking including all the ladies in the house.
I was checking some of my WhatsApp status and I realized that my cousins in America also went to Eid. I decided to call her to see her face and it led to her mum speaking with mine with my phone, her dad speaking with mine and we all were just exchanging pleasantries including we kids.
Then my aunt told my sister to send her account number so she could send some money. Immediately after the call, she sent #150,000. It’s a little amount of money, right? At the same time, it can cover up a whole lot of things. I was glad because I knew I have a share already. Would you believe that the youngest person of the family already divided the money and said everyone is to take #25,000? It sounded weird to me because he’s the youngest and why would he expect my parents to take the same amount as him? Also, he can be very funny when he’s angry and when we all sat down talking about how to share the money, he was already prepared to get angry if he doesn’t get his #25,000.
On the long run, we gave him #35,000 because his school fee remains #31,000 for him to pay up and so that he can have #4000 to spend for himself. Also, we gave my older brother #80,000. He just gained admission into the University of Ibadan for his masters program and he’d be needing over #550,000. Do you realize how much we’ve spent that way? We’ve spent #115,000. We gave my parents #10,000 each and my sister and I took #7,500 each. If we were to share it equally, I’d have taken #25,000 right? But I had to make that sacrifice for my two siblings who need money most. I need money too but it isn’t as urgent as theirs so I just had to do that because they both needed it.
What point am I trying to drive out?
Firstly, if we refuse to give my little brother #25,000, he’d think we’re cheating him because everyone is older than him. I feel the fact that he’s the youngest and still very littke makes him lack some kind of understandings about life and that’s why he wanted us to share the money equally.
What I’m trying to say is that there are times when some situations may not be convenient for you but you just have to make sacrifice for the other person and it is usually because of one reason or the other. It may be because you don’t want the person to get angry or feel inferior, you may also want to use that situation to avoid some kind of unnecessary talks in the future.
Making sacrifices may not be done out of your wish but you just have to do that because of one reason or the other.
