Can you help someone who you know will probably do better than you?

Recently, I’d gone to make some purchases from a shop that sells goods at wholesale prices, even when one is buying in bits. A shop which could boast of its level of customer patronage, as buyers are hardly ever in short supply—which, on the downside, means that you’d probably have to spend more time there than you would in a regular retail shop.

But that day, unlike earlier visitations, I was in no rush. In fact, I intentionally missed an opportunity to be attended to. Instead, and without making it obvious, I listened to a conversation between two young men standing close to me, who possibly are in their early or mid twenties. It was a talk about some other guy, Martin, who had made it big financially.

They talked about this and then about that. But it was this part that got me thinking:

“Guy, reason am na. Make we comot shame say we be graduates ask Martin make him show us the way. For this life, person need helper oh!” one of them said.

The other, in response, said, “And you think say him to help? E be like say you never understand something about this life: People no dey help their fellow wey dem know say get the potential to make am pass dem. Dem go rather help person wey dem know say, anyhow anyhow, the person no fit rub shoulder with dem. See, like we dey now, Martin know say we sharp, we go school and we sabi book . . . na only opportunity we never get. See eh, for this life, person wey see you as threat no fit help you.”

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It’s a rhetorical question I have for today; a question for our hearts. But if you want to answer, no problem: Can you help someone who you know will probably do better than you?

Anyway, March is here already.