One day bush meat go catch the hunter,

I was on the balcony of my home yesterday when I saw my neighbor coming from afar, immediately she sighted me, she started grinning from ear to ear, and I flashed a broad smile at her while we exchanged greetings.

I looked at her while she walked away and I went down memory lane. You see this my neighbor, she made our lives so very uncomfortable last year.

We had just moved into this apartment, we were on the ground floor and she was directly on top, if we so much as made any form of loud sound ‘peren’ or our son screams or runs around, she is hitting her wall and stamping her foot repeatedly to embarrass and register her displeasure. It was so terrible that we could not laugh out loud like my husband and I usually does.

We were practically living for these our neighbors and tip toeing around them in our own home. Many times she had come to our apartment and I opened the door to behold her contorted face in anger, lashing out at me, while I tell her not to be angry and that we would not let such happen again.

My husband had told me that he wanted to go to their flat and dialogue with them, so they could leave us alone, I told him to ignore, and that they could manipulate the situation and turn it into a huge fight, and that we should adjust more so we could dwell in peace with one another.
This was how we lived in our home for eight good months, our son was not free to be a toddler, we on the hand not free to laugh out loud or make any loud sound, we could not even repair some stuffs because of these people.

One day, my son had gotten the flu, and he was so uncomfortable all through the day, he did not want to sleep at night, my husband had to put him in the buggy and take him on a stroll in the cold night so he does not disturb our almighty neighbor, by the time they got back he was asleep so we just put him on the bed. He didn’t sleep for long when he woke up again and started crying, he wanted me to back him, so I had to back him for about an hour before he slept back.

Imagine a seven months pregnant woman backing a child in the midnight and standing for about an hour. I was already weak and mentally down.

By seven in the morning, my son started crying again, and our neighbor hit her wall thrice.

I saw stars, and I hit back gba, gba, gba, gba, gba, gba, gba, I hit repeatedly so much that my son stopped crying and looked at me in bewilderment.

My husband on the other hand knew the time of our almighty neighbors had come with me, so he just hugged me and left for work.
I wanted to rush up to their flat to bang their door repeatedly like they have been doing to us, but because of my state of being pregnant I calmed down, and sent the agency of the apartment a mail which was a missile, I told them to send it to our neighbor, that I would have done so directly if I had their email.
I told them of their constant harassment, I told them how much they hate us and hate our baby, and if they wanted us to throw him away, strangle him, or abuse him so they could be comfortable.
I told them the little boy cannot even be a child because of them and their obvious displeasure for us. I told them they were on a mission to kill me and my unborn baby and if they do not desist I would file a suit of harassment against them lol.

I went on and on till I was satisfied. I copied my husband, and he called me to ask what special eat out do I want him to buy for me? He said omo akin, o kare lai (the child of a warrior well done) lol. And that was it, we did not hear ‘pim’ from this people again.

For one week I deliberately allowed my son to play like he wanted, alas there was no banging of the wall or stamping of feet. Obviously they had decided to behave, their prey whom they had bullied for months fought back hard, and they learnt how to mind their own territory and left us alone. When we brought home our new baby they came visiting, gushing over her, and wishing us well and all. I never knew they could be that nice lol.

Moral of this story is that if you are being bullied, and you are a bit confused or scared of the bully, you could stay away from them totally, but if that territory is going to be a place you would be for long, then you are going to have to learn how to fight back hard.

Sometimes a bully understands only one language, and that is to get bullied back, to give them a more bitter taste of their own medicine.

To live a fulfilled life, peace is relative, and some people will not give you that peace unless you fight for it.

And to everyone who loves to bully people, change, don’t wait until you are publicly ridiculed and disgraced before you change your ways. Live and let live. The world is big enough let others be.