Double it and give it to the next person (a helping hand)

The word "friend" is probably one of the most misused words out there, people tend to call everyone they know their friend when in reality they're nothing but mere acquaintances and so on. A friend is someone who will be with you when it's good and when it's bad, someone who isn't scared of telling you the truth to your face irrespective of how it would make you feel, as long as they believe they're doing it for your own good. A friend is someone with your best interest at heart, someone who's willing to go an extra mile for you, most friendship are more like family.

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A couple of times I've written about a particular friend of mine, one who recently has been going through a lot of financial struggles while at the same time battling with sport betting addiction, although he's never one to admit it. This is the same friend I spoke about who had to sell his generator and some other personal item of his, just so that he could settle some debts.

Unfortunately, selling all of those things were only able to settle some of the debt and not all of it, so not only was this good friend of mine broke, he had also sold off most of his valuable items and was still in debt. Well, recently I came to find out that he had been ill for a day or two now, and I was very sure that part of the reason for his illness was due to how broke he was.

Experience has thought me over time that there are certain sicknesses that are caused by overthinking and I knew without a doubt that this one was one of them. So in a bid to save my friend, I had called two of our other friends and spoke to them about him. These two other friends are students who basically take care of all their bills in school themselves, so I knew asking them to help wasn't an easy thing but to my surprise, they both agreed to help, so I immediately got to work.

The plan was a simple one, my friend needed a job, one that would be able to sustain him and provide his daily bread and we were all going to support him anyway we could. So after discussing with the two other guys, I had gone to my friend and gave him the terms and conditions for our help. Yes, we made sure to include some terms and conditions, not for ourselves but for his own benefits because these were terms that if followed diligently would not only get him a job, but also help with his sport betting addiction.

The three of us had agreed to contribute certain amount of money to him every week for his feeding for about a month, in that month he would try to get a job and if he succeeds in getting that job, we would also assist him with his transport fare for another month until he gets his first pay and can now take care of himself. But for us to do all of that, he would stop sport betting for that entire month, failure for him to do that or get a job would result to the automatic withdrawal of our support.

Now if you ask me, these are pretty good conditions, one that would help him positively. Thankfully he had agreed to them and has even started job hunting. He even had a job interview today that was later postponed.

Hopefully at the end of all this, he ends up a better and more responsible man and he gets to help the next person he sees out there.