ANNCY JUICY GIST: SALON GIST

Welcome to Anncy Juicy Gist, here I will get you updated about things I see, hear, experience and love to share with people. So prepare yourself for a little gossip.

Here is the first edition, enjoy.

    Some few days ago, I went to the salon to plait my hair. Not your regular modern day salon but the local Nigerian salon. Someone was already seated and I had no choice but to sit and await my turn. Her children joined me as I watched movies on my mobile phone.

     The youngest of the children arrived from a private lesson, dropped her bag and ran off to play. She then came back later and sourced for a stick to make a local toy. You have just got to see the rate at which she struggled to break the stick and fashioned it into the size she wanted.

      She walked to her Mum(the hairdresser) and asked her to plead with a boy around ten years old to help her in making the toy and the mother did so. All along, I was mesmerized about the little girl’s courage and determination.

      The main thing now was, just halfway through plaiting my hair, the little girl arrived with a friend of her age(5 years old or there about). All of a sudden, this friend started crying that the daughter of the hairdresser should give her the toy because it belonged to her.

      In confusion the mother seized the toy from both of them and the girl who falsefully claimed it belonged to her fell to the ground and cried more. The other children begged her to stay quiet and not to call the attention of her Mum. I asked them the reason they were begging her since she was the one at fault and they said her Mum would be angry and would accuse them of maltreating her.

      The hairdresser’s daughter on the other hand didn’t really cry but her face held multiple expressions that kept reoccurring to me.

So you might be wondering, what exactly is she driving at with all these stories?

     Well this is the point, it is bad that a small girl should claim what doesn’t belong to her and instead of correcting her she is pacified. You might believe that she is still very innocent but whatever she does now will be her practice later on.

     This is applicable to everyone. We shouldn’t shield people because we share close bond with them but correct them so that they will realize their mistakes. Changing our society should start from us.

      On a final note, whenever an individual makes a mistake, correction is no harm when done the right way. I hope you enjoyed this and learnt something.

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