[b]Its been a year since ronke lost her only son and being a single mom

it wasn't easy moving on and leaving the memories of her 8yr old

behind.The fact that colleagues and friends kept telling her sorry for

months made her see getting a new job and changing environment as the

best way to get over the emotions. She finally gets an opportunity at

a new firm and decided to take it.it was the first day at her new job

and at lunch hour she decides to visit the diner, the first thing her

eyes caught were the donoughts on display and immidiately, they

reminded her of her son.he loved donoughts to a fault but she didn't

mind, because as a child she wouldn't trade her chocolates for

anything in the world.her knees grew weak as a result of the flashback

and she took a seat as she sank in thoughts, completely oblivious of

everyother thing that was happening around her.In her state of

oblivion,obinna,who works on the third floor walks by and says hello

but ronke didn't respond not because she's a snub but because she was

buried in thoughts.Obinna felt so upset that he just kept walking

on.With his eyes all red and ego bruised he bumps into Tom, his friend

and colleague on the third floor and owing to the fact that they've

shared the same office for years,Tom knew instantly that something was

wrong and so he says;
Tom: Obi! how far now? why your eyes red like so?
Obinna: NO be that yeye girl wey just start work for fifth floor.i

just greet am now and she didn't reply
Tom: Really?
Obinna:Yes! very proud girl.
The next day was a very rainy tuesday and being a considerate person

she felt being late on the 2nd day at her new job was irresponsible,

so she left her house with a giant umbrella and managed to get to the

bus-stop with her clothes dry and intact,she got a bus w'out delay and

knowing it would drop her off two blocks from her office building,to

her, meant she's safe from getting stained or wet.she finally alighted

and as she approaches the building, a red sport car whose driver was

obviously in a hurry ran into a pot hole and splashed what seemed

like pellets of mud on her.she takes a look at her now muddy clothes

and her mood changed.with her face filled with a frown tough enough to

scare the devil she walks into the ground reception and bumps into Tom

who says;
Tom: hello
and ronke with her face still filled with frowns replies without even

looking in his direction
Ronke: Hi
and hurriedly looks for the ladies hoping to still find a way to look

pleasant for the day's work.
Tom stood there feeling rejected because of the way ronke answered and

instead of pausing for a while to ask himself why she could have

reacted that way,the only thought that came to his mind was what

obinna said the previous day.he walks into his office and says to

obinna
Tom: Guy! wetin you talk yesterday na true ooo.
Obinna: wetin be that?
Tom: If you see the way wey that girl wey dey fifth floor answer me

when i greet am,you go think say i be s**t
Obinna : You see! didn't i tell you yesterday?
Unfortunately 2 people already have a wrong impression about a

naturally quiet and wonderful lady.These two friends go on to tell at

least three people each and in no time the entire office complex

starts interpreting ronke's quitness as pride and ''feeling too big to

talk to them'' and as such they begin to react rashly towards her.
many times due to what we hear,we already have our minds made about

people and we begin to see them in the lights and visions that were

displayed from another person's point of view(which was borne out of

misinterpretation) and then we miss out on the opportunity of being

friends with someone who actually is of a good character.It is good to

listen to people but always let your own observation and wisdom

decide.
we may think our little actions don't matter but the aluu 4 will

probably be alive now if 30% of those that left their homes just to

see their execution went there with a mind of asking at least one or

two questions instead of being in a complete state of ''total

assumption''.

may GOD help us all.[/b]

Great article.

Great article.

Thank you.