I got into a cab today while coming home from work, agreed a certain price with the cab driver and noticed a good number of people were reluctant to enter his cab. It was after I reached my destination that I understood why a lot of people avoided him. He started going back on his word calling for a higher price from what we initially agreed. It was clear this man had an agenda from the beginning, but I had exactly the agreed price at hand and gave it to him which made him furious. I guess he thought I would give him a bigger amount of money where he would need to give me change and then collect whatever he wanted but it didn't go his way and it made him furious. What he didn't know was that I could see through his actions and luckily I had a counter plan for it. It's so sad that people now use such measures to rip others of their money because I have been a victim in the past and I did nothing about it.
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Since I became mature and left my wayward lifestyle I try as much as possible to live in peace with people. But then, there are just times when trouble comes knocking as some people just choose to be so unfortunate that they cause trouble anywhere they go. For instance, the owner of the web development company that has been working with my company for three years kinda hates me for taking away his job. He looks for every means to make me look bad before my boss, which irritates me. I just do my job and let him fall into his own trap because I see that as the sweetest revenge. The reason is because for one, I don't see myself working with the company for too long anymore and thus would be leaving soon. And just to be blunt, the company doesn't pay me enough to want to fight for my job.
The only thing I make sure to do is clear my name whenever the owner of the web development company tries to put a dent on it. I've never taken anyone to court or reported to the police for what they did to me, I have never just given them the opportunity to do something that would require such effort from me. Maybe in the future I would need to take an issue to court, and if I do that for any reason, it won't be over just any kind of material thing, it will be to protect either myself or my family from future incidents from such a fellow. I'm not someone to put too much value on material things, and if I see someone is trying to sabotage my name, I think of ways to create a stronger brand around my name. But when a person decides to harm me or my family physically, I will be left with no choice but to bring the law into the matter.
I hate arguing with people over trivial things, I hate it when I'm in the middle of a quarrel that will require people to come and settle. I believe in avoiding peace as much as possible, but if you think you are smart, I might also be capable of taking laws into my own hands. I'm very good with setting people up and orchestrating events, while I was still living a wayward lifestyle, I had orchestrated a lot, making people look so bad that teachers would get sacked and students suspended. In my first year in school I orchestrated for my roommate to be caught stealing after I intentionally mentioned that there were computers the school wasn't using, knowing him to be a thief. He was expelled from the school and no one knows how he was caught, not even the security personnels that caught him because to them they saw smoke and thought there was fire not knowing someone intentionally set up the smoke the exact time he was stealing. This is how I used to deal with people if I can't get them directly.
THIS IS MY RESPONSE TO HIVE LEARNER'S PROMPT FOR WEEK 151 EPISODE 3
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What an annoying situation with the driver, it's as if you were in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). It's disgusting how some people try to take advantage of others, thank goodness you were prepared. Your philosophy of avoiding conflict, but defending yourself when necessary, is the right thing to do. Protecting yourself and your family is a priority, and using the law (or other tricks, if necessary) to do so is justifiable. Family is family.
Yes you're very correct, family is family, and no one touches us.
It's always ideal to find fine a way to peacefully resolve issues like you did, but if such won't instill the changes we wanted, taken legal actions is a good way to tackle the situation that joining the other person is such horrible act.
Sometimes, when you've tried all that's within your power, you involve legal if you can afford to. I like how you handled these cases though.
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