Being nosy is one of the causes of young people's deaths. Various individuals, old and young, cultivate the habit of getting involved in other people's affairs, which most of the time ends in them getting killed. Nosy, in its simplest term of definition, means having interest in people's affairs.
If your parents are always trying to get involved in your affairs, it simply means they are caring and are trying to look out for you. But it's a different case when your friends try to know everything about you. Most friends are actually your enemies; they want to know more about your life not because they are trying to look out for you as your parents may, but because they want to share it around so as it could make them feel they have a partner.
Nosy people are those sets of persons who have low self-esteem. They feel their situations cannot have an improvement other than how they are. That is why nosy friends have little or no good counsel because all they do is try to know more about people, even their secrets, and the amazing thing is they eventually know.
Two years ago, I was a nosy kind—not to extreme, but I was nosy. At the former compound where my family and I lived, there was a lady, Miss Magdalene. She has three children, two boys and a girl, but no husband. As a nosy girl, then I used to wonder where her husband could have been. Obviously, this had nothing to do with me because I'm not even related to her, nor am I her daughter, but what is expected if you nosy people? Whether an affair has anything to do with them or not, they always want to get involved in it, and that was just what I did. I got myself involved in an affair that had nothing to do with me.
Hence, I started making inquiries for the other neighbors since they've lived there for quite a longer time than us. However, the reply I always got from them was I wouldn't know. Frustrated and left with no choice, I got close to her children, who were not my age mates. Gradually, as time went on, I got to find out that her children were from different fathers.
There is this one significant thing about nosy people: they get to find out many secrets about people, especially the embarrassing ones.
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Years later, I had an encounter with a nosy friend. The first time we met, I never knew she was the kind that gets herself involved in people's affairs—not until she inquired about my male counterpart, Saviour, and me. Actually, Saviour and I weren't dating; we were just platonic friends who looked out for each other, but she always had the mentality that any girl who is close to a guy that means they are dating. Hence, she got me into trouble with my mother.
For years now, I have been the most trusted child, perhaps because I was the last born. My mother always believed that I wouldn't do anything to hurt her, especially at my early stage of life. My mother has this habit of warning us from getting into a relationship at an early age, reminding us that it would bring nothing but destruction to our lives, which of course has actually been of good to me over my years in high school. However, how Abigail (my nosy friend) got to convince my mother that Saviour and I were on a date is what I still can't fathom. Despite how many times we (Saviour and I) tried to prove to my mother that we were not on a date, she never believed us. You know mom later found out about the truth when Abigail accused her caring aunty of not taking good care of her in the pretext of why she ran out of home.
Thus, I was able to convince my mother that Abigail did lie to her about Saviour and me. At some point I believe it was karma taking a turn in my life. Remembering that I once did poke my nose in someone's affair. Getting my mother's trust back again made me the happiest person, and if I were to have an encounter again with a nosy person, I would tell him or her to stop being nosy; it destroys.
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I’m glad you got your mother’s trust back. I’m even more glad that you learned your lesson. But wait o, between you and I, tell us, were you on a date with Savior?🤣🏃♀️
Haha...
It was just small feelings sha 😂
Thanks for stopping by dear.
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