One person I wasn’t in a hurry to meet was Mo Abudu. Tales of how she was so inaccessible, hash and high handed had repeatedly filtered into my ears.
One day in the course of work our paths cross and the confusion I felt after every interaction got worse because by the day, marrying the stories and the warmth from this lady was giving me a headache.
She is nothing like my hearsay formed opinion. I was busy admiring her remarkable goal getting focus on a professional level when 1st hand I saw a kind concerned woman who was quick to take personal interest in assisting and inspiring weak people at different levels.
Now this discrepancy I wasn’t dealing with for the 1st time as my brother and friend Ebuka once had the most awkward of a malicious lie carried around about him. I couldn’t believe the conviction with which some of the carriers spoke about stuff that I was positioned to know was a blatant lie.
Sometimes I wonder myself what could they possibly have cooked up out there about me. Maybe I am a serial killer by night. You never know.
Jesus once asked his close friends ‘who do people say that I am?’ Every shared answer of the widely spread hearsay about him was a far cry from the truth. Then Jesus asked, ‘But you, who do you say that I am?’ Peter gave a clear correct answer as one who knew him.
Do you know the people that you talk about? Has your formed opinion about anyone had the liberty of a 1st hand explanation/encounter with the person or at least concrete information free of sensation?
The 3 people mentioned earlier were not perturbed by the ill conception. You shouldn’t be either when this rampant ideology comes your way
A zillion reasons abound for why lies or distorted truth about people may make the rounds. King at the chain still being jealousy and ignorance.
He who tells tales unverified about others is no better than he who buys them without reasonable doubt.
Beware of the snare of judging people you truly do not know!
