Hello guys, happy new month and happy new week. It just feels so surreal how just a few days ago we were saying Happy New Year, and just now January is over and we're in February. Anyway, that's life for us, time just keeps rolling by so fast, and it doesn't stop for anyone no matter the situation or circumstance.
Thinking about things over and over is something I do without thinking about it. I always like to consider all of the odds that could occur before trying out things or even before making a decision. This attribute could be a good thing sometimes, but other times it could discourage one from doing something or even make you lose opportunity because you were thinking so much about whatever was the focus, and you had a window that closed before you were able to make up your mind.
I can remember sometime in college, my younger sister and I stayed out of campus, this wasn't our doing, it was due to the shortage of accommodation on campus, so the number of hostels available to students was limited when compared to the students admitted into the university, so I and my sister had to stay in the neighborhood around the school. The first apartment we occupied wasn't to our liking, we just had to make do with it because our options were limited due to our financial capabilities.
We time went by we decided to move to a better apartment, and that was when the whole thinking started.
My dad asked us to go search for an apartment, giving us his budget that he had for the apartment, but the money was a bit small compared to the amount of the apartments that we liked. So it was either go for the ones that weren't to our liking due to my dad's budget or top up the money and get something to our liking.
We finally saw an apartment we liked, but was beyond my dad's budget, so we told our aunt and she was willing to pay the extra amount. So we just told my dad that we had found one within his budget, he gave us the money, and we took the remaining amount from my aunt and secured the place.
The next thing we knew, my aunt tells us that one of her friend's child was finding it difficult to get a place of her own, so she asked if the girl could come and stay with us, and that the mum would cover some part of the rent.
At this point, my sister and I were becoming a bit scared because my dad wasn’t aware of all of these transactions. First, we didn't tell him the real amount, then we agreed to take someone in. We thought and thought about the whole situation.
We were worried that my dad was going to find out the whole truth since he needed the details of the landlord to confirm that he was legit and not a fraud.
One of the reasons why we were thinking so much about the whole issue was because my dad and my aunt weren't really on good terms and if he was to find out what we had done, we were bound to get into serious trouble. So not only were we thinking about the rent that we lied to him about we were also thinking about the new roommate that we had just gotten.
You might be asking why we were thinking so much about all these. Firstly we were still young, so my dad was mostly responsible for us, we had just gotten into college, my sister was in her first year, and I was in my second year. The second reason was that my dad was quite a disciplinarian, a no-nonsense person, hence the reason for our overthinking, and also because it was part of our nature, especially me.
God was so kind, my dad never got to find out about the rent or our living conditions until we both graduated. At some point when I told a friend, she was like, all of these things are normal things that happen in the university, that there was no reason for me to keep worrying, but that didn't deter me. This is just one of the so many events that I have overthought about an issue.
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