“What goes around comes around”. I’ve
been thinking of the meaning of that sentence for sometime now. I remember one
Sunday when I was going to Church; I came across this little girl on the street
crying. Immediately she saw me, she walked up to me and pleaded with me for
N50. “What do you need N50 for?” I asked her and she replied that she lost the
money given to her by her aunty to buy something from the market. I took pity
on the poor little girl and took out the only money left in my purse and gave
it to her. Later in the Church that same day, I was not able to give offering
because the money I gave the little girl was the only money I had on me.
Days have passed since that incident
when I found myself in a very difficult situation. I can never forget that Tuesday
evening when I closed for work very late and was in a hurry to get home that I forgot
my purse in my office. I already boarded a bus and we were nearing the bus stop
when the conductor started collecting transport fare, I opened my bag and to my
utmost bewilderment my purse was nowhere to be found. I searched for it in my
bag thoroughly before remembering where it was. I pleaded with the conductor to
help me out but he was adamant, he was about embarrassing me when a young man
sitting behind me in the last row intervened and offered to help.
That day as I climbed down the bus,
the picture of the little girl I helped on my way to Church flashed in my mind
and I thought to myself, “What you give to others that is exactly what will
come to you”. Even the Bible says, “whatever you sow, so shall you reap,”
whatever you do in life just bear it in mind that whatever you give, will be
given back to you, whatever you do will surely come back to you, one way or the
other, either now or in the future; they call it karma. If you give love,
kindness, compassion that is what will come back to you. If you give hatred,
wickedness, etc, that too will return to you. Life is like a vast field and we
are all farmers. A corn planter will never expect to reap groundnut, a yam
cultivator will not expect to harvest cassava, what you give the earth is what
it will give back to you. If you sow bountifully, you’ll reap bountifully; if
you sow sparingly, you’ll definitely reap sparingly. You cannot compare the
harvest of a farmer who sowed a healthy yam setting with that of a farmer who
sowed with a sick seedling. Cain in the Bible offered bad sacrifice and he got
bad appraisal from God but Abel gave a healthy sacrifice and he received a good
appraisal from God. Maybe if I hadn’t helped that little girl, I wouldn’t have
gotten any help that very day I was stranded. You may never know when you
helped an angel so make it a point to reach out to people in every little way
you can.
If you are to live your life with
this consciousness every day, giving your all and doing what is good and right
in the sight of God and of man, you will definitely receive good returns and
you’ll never have the cause to regret any day in your life.
