FRIENDSHIP APPRECIATION

 Hi there!

How are you doing this fine October day? Happy New Month!

Welcome to today’s gist.

So little over a month ago, shortly after I moved back home from school, my phone went bad. The way it happened is really quite funny: I was in a place with a really poor network connection, I tried all I could to connect to the Internet but it wasn’t working. Then I had the inspired idea to switch off my phone and turn it back on in the hopes that the network connection would be better. I switched the phone off and when I tried to switch it back on, it refused to come on.

Like play, like play, na so my phone take spoil, I’ve taken it to be fixed but they’re still trying to figure out what exactly is wrong with the phone.

But today’s gist isn’t about my spoilt phone, it’s about the amazing individuals God has blessed me with.

So, when my phone went bad, my system did too, so I was completely cut off from communication and interaction with the world, especially since my contacts are all saved to my Google account. And then God began to show me anew the people He blessed me with: I got a small phone after about 2 weeks and I put my sim cards in it. Few hours after I did that, I got a call from my friend; she hadn’t seen me online and she was about to make an application that she knew would be of benefit to me so she called me to inform me of the need to make the application, and she helped me get the application to where it needed to be.

And then the calls began to pour in! My friends were calling to say they hadn’t seen me ‘around’ and just wanted to check in to make sure I am fine. I’m not going to even pretend about it, having my friends do this has really been a blessing to me, it shows me just how interested and invested in my life they are, to the extent that they noticed that I haven’t been around.

When Law School updated applicants’ admission status, I obviously didn’t know; my friend called me to inform me, she went the extra mile to check my admission status and called with the news that I have been admitted.

This period has been a learning curve for me, it has taught me to learn to trust God more; there are days when the thought of all that I could be doing but can’t do because I don’t have a phone gets to me and messes with my head. On every such day, there’s a friend reaching out to me to say ‘hi’ and I’m really grateful for each call and each message, you have been God’s instrument to me,.

So this is me saying “THANK YOU!” to all my friends, you all are a special gift from God that I do not take for granted, and I pray that God will bless you all immensely for your show of love, and I pray that I’m a wonderful friend to you too like you are to me.

Thank you so much!

And to you my dear gist partner, I pray you have friends that are intentional about you and love you like my friends love me.

 

Love,

Achenyo.