Don't expect too much from people

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Squatting someone comes with a lot of challenges and responsibilities. I never realized this until I became a finalist in the university.

As a finalist, I had the opportunity to pick a person to stay with me(not two abeg... some people do it, but I could not. The space would be too small for that na)

I had several people to choose from as a lot of people kept coming to beg me to squat them.

I confided in my sister, and she told me to choose someone that is younger than I am and won't stress me. So I choose quiet Margrethe. She was my junior by two years, and she had stayed in my former room with her sister.

For the first two weeks, there was peace until I made a discovery... It was the fact that I did the chores most of the time while she messed the place up (we both did, but she just rarely participated in cleaning up)

So that Friday morning, I became angry when I saw she left the plates to go home. (I actually thought she had gone home because she used to go home on weekends.

So I left for lectures angry and when I came back later, I decided to wash them before resting. I brought out the bowl we kept our dishes, and tada! I saw that they had reduced... so I was like how come?

I then discovered that the reason why it was scanty was because she later came back to wash her own.

It really baffled me because even though I am way older than she is, I wash both of her plates, and hers is usually more because I don't really eat.

So I became angry.

I challenged her, and she said the reason she did so was because she was ill and did not have the strength to wash mine too. We fought as a result of that and a few weeks later, she left.

My view: I think she was selfish. If she had left the plates, it would have been better. I would have washed them as usual without complaining. But how come her sickness only gave her the strength to wash hers alone?

I also think I was to blame because I expected too much from her.

What do you think?