Hello, everyone.
I welcome you to my blog. Keeping our emotions under control all the time is actually one of the most difficult things to do. Sometimes our emotions get the best of us and take full control of our actions, and most of the time when we let our emotions take control, we end up paying the price. We all must have experienced how bad it always ends when we let our emotions take full control; 9 out of 10 times that our emotions take control, it always ends badly. We always end up messing things up, and when we gain back control, we have to stay cleaning up the mess we must have made all because our emotions took control.
No matter how hard we try to keep our emotions in check, at some point they will eventually take control and get the best of us, and when we act on those emotions, acting based on how we feel at the moment will only leave us spoiling a beautiful thing that must have been going on in our lives. Nobody is perfect, and you cannot always have your emotions under control, but it is best that already 90% of the time we are in control and not our emotions. We take and make every decision after thinking it through because decisions taken based on emotions and how we were feeling at that time were not given any deep thought.
Sometime back after high school, I called a friend telling him how I needed a job and he should help me since he was already working, and if they had a spot in his workplace, he should put me in it and how I was ready to work. This friend of mine went out of his way to get me a job at his workplace, for which I was grateful. I gave him a cut from my first and second pay, but on my third pay I did not, and I noticed a change in his attitude, how he talks to me, and how he acts when I am around, and I knew something was wrong.
He was expecting that I continue to give him a cut, and since I stopped, he went around telling other colleagues how he got me a job and I failed to show enough appreciation for the job he got me, even after I had given him a cut from my very little pay then, and colleagues kept coming to ask questions like I should have given him something even if it was not much because of how he goes around telling others how much of a bad person I am, and I kept it all bottled up. I kept trying not to let his attitude get to me and kept acting like I don't see his attitude or I have not heard anything that he goes around saying.
After work we were on our way home, and he kept a straight face, and out of the blue he talked to me indirectly: "Some people are the ones that make people wicked and cause them to stop helping people." It was at this point that I lost it all, and I told him how much I had heard he said and how I had tried to hold on, and if it was because he got me the job, then he could have it, and that is how I quit the job.
I did regret quitting; though the pay was poor, it was helping me take care of my basic needs, and since I quit, I could not go back and plead to be accepted back. It took some time, and I got another job. I learned that it is best not to act off emotions or how we feel at that moment, no matter what. Think things through before making a decision, and this is difficult to get done when we have our emotions in control.
This is my entry to day 12 of the #Aprilinleo daily prompt.
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I entered the post without an expectation of seeing something personal (hence the title). But, I liked the post itself. I do want to keep this comment short. So, I will just end it by motioning a saying that I came across, there is a saying that goes like this
"if it is free, think twice before you take it".
Do you agree?
What do you think @scifimultiverse?
I totally agree with you, free things will cost you something in the end.