STEALING WAS NECESSARY
It was yet another day for me, after staying two days without food. Our salaries hadn't been paid where I was working, so that day I went to work feeling very weak, at one point it looked as though I was going to pass out. I tried asking for money from some of my colleagues but they said they weren't having enough to spare. Right there with all the dizziness, I was trying to think about something else rather than food, but my manager wasn't helping eating in the midst of everyone. The aroma of the food to a hungry fellow was suffering, and the only thing available at my place of work then was water.
The more I drank water the more hungry I became until I couldn't drink water again. As God would have it, the generator went off because the guy who was given money to buy fuel refused to buy out of anger. According to him he was being treated like a slave running errands up and down and wouldn't go anymore because he was nobody's slave. When I saw he was serious with his decision I offered to help, but deep down in my heart, It was an opportunity to eat. I felt guilty at the thought of what I was about to do, but looking at my predicament at that time I wasn't strong enough to own up to my morals.
I promised myself that the very chance I get to buy fuel again I would replace whatever money I stole. That day I was given 4,000 naira for petrol, but I only used 3,500 naira and bought porridge yam which was the cheapest and most satisfying food I could lay my hands on. Even after paying back the money, I still feel like I let myself down that day, I feel somehow my integrity was put to the test and I failed woefully. However, I do not pray for such scenarios to occur again as I'm not sure I would make an alternate decision. Even though I feel bad about it, I do not regret doing it as that food was what sustained me for another two days until I was paid a salary.
This experience taught me a valuable lesson about life and the need to stay humble always. It's easy and good to say I have never and would never do “this” in my life, but sometimes we need to see and experience firsthand that we are not saints ourselves and many times have never been in a position that exposes part of us that we never knew existed. There were times in my life when I had to drop holding firmly to a lot of principal doctrines especially those made out of pride. I have come to understand that life is way more than what we think, and if we should judge all actions we would become even worse than the actions we judge.
THIS IS MY RESPONSE TO HIVE LEARNER'S PROMPT FOR WEEK 103 EPISODE 2
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Honestly, hunger can lead to something else.
Personally, I will say that since you saved yourself amd replaced the money, you did the right thing. Hunger knows no big man, neither does it know dignity. It deals with the big and small.
Funny but I can't agree more
I would not blame you for what you did because if they had paid your salary it would never be like that, you have to eat something so that you will not collapse now, most of these private companies value their company but they do not value their worker's life, they can replace you at any time if anything happens to you. I do not blame you dear.
This was what I told myself when I decided to do it. But still it doesn't justify the act
Hunger is not anyone's mate. Your life and health is important, I don't see it to be that wrong since your boss wasn't considerate to look at the faces of his employees.
The only thing you would have done to right your wrong would have been to tell him you took out an amount to feed your stomach. If he finds it offensive, then he would have deducted it from your pay.
Well, I was being careful not to offend, that was why I took and replaced without telling anyone
Hunger nah bastard oo.
What you did was wrong but you did the right thing at the end. Had it been you didn't do it and something happened to you that day, your position will be occupied by someone else.
Same thing I told myself