Always Try to Keep Calm

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Self control is probably one of the best thing anyone can have because it will help you get out of a lot of trouble, you just don't know it yet. Earlier today, something happened at my hostel that almost turned into a very serious issue all due to lack of self control.

The hostel decided to have a change of management, so we got a new caretaker who decided to call in a meeting today. The meeting was for him to introduce himself to us and vice versa and then lay down some new rules and regulations because the old caretaker had been a bit careless with the way she had handled the hostel and that had resulted to lack of orderliness and almost chaos.

After the introduction, the new caretaker began to talk about the payment of the rent and that was when we found out that some tenant who had moved into the hostel at the middle of the year last year, had been told by the old caretaker that their rent would be expiring in the middle of this year, only for the new caretaker to disagree.

According to the new caretaker, they weren't suppose to pay for a whole year, they were only suppose to pay from the month they moved in to the end of that year. That is if they had moved in July, they should have made payment for July to December, making it six months. He said that they will all have to renew their rent by the month of February and that was when all hell broke lose.

The people who all paid during that time all got up and began to complain. One lady in particular was the one with the loudest voice. While everyone was complaining that it was unfair to them, she was insulting the young caretaker. I wasn't among those who paid at the middle of the year so I sat in my little corner and just observed as the man warned her, telling her not to insult him.

She ignored his warnings and before we knew what was happening he had raised his hand to hit her across the face. Someone had been quick to intervene and stop his hands in the air before it landed on its target and then the whole meeting exploded into two parties. One was trying to calm the caretaker while also asking the lady to keep quiet, while the other was supporting the lady.

When the meeting finally came to an end and everyone went their way, I overheard the lady on the phone talking to someone, from the conversation on the phone, I could tell the other person on the phone was either a police officer or in the military. She would had arrested the caretaker or even worse if he had hit her even though he wasn't the one who ate their money and she was the one who had insulted him.

In this case, we could all see that the caretaker wasn't at fault as he was only taking orders but then his lack of self control almost landed him in prison because the best thing he could have done was ignore the lady because no matter what she had said, she was still going to make the payment or leave the hostel,so he was going to have the last laugh anyway.

Sometimes, self control is everything.



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Thank God for the person who came forth to stop he caretakers hand, you know this issue of self control is very important but just that it isn't easy. Some people will push you and push you to the extreme but I think we can still learn it no matter how difficult self-control is..

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