Steem4nigeria Accelerator Contest Week 20: I wish I had handled it better
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What was the situation you found yourself that made you react differently from how you should have
Witnessing, I giving account of what happened in my area. Actually on that faithful day, our neighbors was fighting and my relative was one of those who was among the fight. So actually at that time I was the only one around when the fight started. It first start as a coverrel before it finally generated to a fight. When I asked what happened even without explaining what happened, I was already putting the blame on the other that was fighting and started defending my relative, even without me knowing that he was the one being my relative was actually the one that started the quarrel which latter generated to the fight.
Share with us how you handled it the wrong way
How i handled it the wrong way was that I bearded false witness against the other person that my relative was fighting with and on the other side was defending my relative.
How should you have handled it
First of all I should have asked them what happened and then wait for the explanation before putting the blame on anybody else and defending anyone who seems close to me. And even if I heard being explained what happened I should have lived the case for the judge and not going defending the case.
A general advice for your readers based on your experience
My advice to my readers is that you should stop defend someone who is wrong in a dispute because he or she is our relative or from the same ethnic group with us rather we should seek peace by helping our relative who is the offended to acknowledge his fault, and the offended to pardon the offended so that peace will reign and unity which leads to prosperity will be achieved.
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