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Guys, I used to think that I was very meek without any atom of pride, but that was a big lie because there's an aspect of my life where pride has built a big mansion. The funny thing is, I have known that it's not helping my life, but trust pride na, the pride is always priding. Lol.
The pride works in a way that I find it very hard to beg for help, beg for forgiveness when I'm not wrongโas it's encouraged that we should always swallow pride and make peaceโand majorly, to beg clients to come back. I mean clients that stopped patronising me.
Let me take them one after the other to tell you how prideful and entertaining the habit is.
Begging for help:
You know, we are always encouraged to seek help whenever we are in need. I seek help, but I have limits. Let me use my Hive contact list as an exampleโI have people that always come through for me whenever I'm in need of urgent 2k. Unashamedly, @fashtioluwa and @beeeee(yes, a lady, I don't have shame) are at the top, and there are others too. But whenever these ones are not around, I would prefer to die than to reach out to another person for help. It's not like I don't have people, I do, I have a lot of them, but hey, pride will not allow me.
When it comes to other bigger needs, pride will not allow me to open up. I will be kept on a spot until I sort myself out.
Begging for forgiveness when I'm not wrong:
You see this act, a lot of friends have discarded me and honestly, I no send. Lol ๐
. Why should I be the one always wanting to make peace to keep a friendship even when I didn't do anything wrong? Anytime I see myself in this situation whereby someone is waiting for me to make peaceโmeanwhile they're the one that's wrongโI raise my shoulder very high. It's so interesting and entertaining to have this feeling.
Begging prodigal clients to come back:
Omo! Once a client walks away and stops patronising me and I'm sure I didn't do anything wrong, I will only make sure to find out the reason why the client decided to walk away. And instead of me to act on it, I will lock up. Nah! I have pride, you canโt see me go and be begging anyone.
The bad side of it:
In all these, we are humans and we need humans aroundโeither for anything, be it for help, support, or anything.
Like I mentioned, a lot of friends have discarded me because we were not willing to boldly come together and click the vibe again. It's possible that a good connection could come from the friends that have discarded me.
The same thing goes for the clients that walked away and I am not willing to beg them to return. What if they hold the connection I want to HIT a big jackpot?
I will do away with this habit, but not this yearโmaybe from next year.
Thanks for reading.
This is my entry to Hive Naija prompt of the week.
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This your pride sef ๐ ๐.
Anyways there are some people that won't beg even when they know their at fault. But as you said do away with it because you don't know what will happen anytime. Those people you chased might be your ticket.
You know the saying your network is your network sometimes all you need to do is just ask some people instead of seeing it as begging and you will be amazed at how they can really come through for you.
And I must say you need to build a better customer relationship with your customers because if you have a pretty good relationship with a client then even when they are the one strong and for some reasons they get angry you can easily still communicate and then sort things out and they won't have to work away
๐ฉ๐ฉ Kingsley we have pride in the same area especially that seeking for help.
I hope to change too, but my babe has taught me to always apologize when when Iโm not wrong just for peace to reign and it as spread to every area of my life ๐ซ ๐ซ
Yeah, there are things we need to pride ourselves on, but when it comes to life threatening issue, Iโll keep my pride one place and cry for help
Me I wonโt die sha ๐ฅน๐ฅน๐๐๐๐