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Henry and Isaiah are not close pals, whenever I visit, I spend some few minutes with them individualy.Severaly they are very strange bed fellow. They always have at least one problem to solve.They disagree, they querrel,but they do not fight as in exchange of blows but they disagree sharply on issues and actions,but one man's ability to forbear held the bond of friendship together. If only I can forgive like he does even when he is in the right and wrongly affronted , he always find a way of handling every situation and solving every discord amicably.I will be lying if I tell you I dont admire this quality.
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GTimes New RomanSymbol ArialTimes New Roman NATHAN MY IDOL
He is one of the finest men I have met in my life time. He is a man of very noble qualities but of all these qualities his ability to forbear is what makes him my idol. Could he forbear because he has no capacity for animosity or because he is a coward? I have asked myself and others in the circuit these question over and over again. Nathan is a very tall man, he is huge too but very mobile, the heaviness that is mostly the lot of huge people doesn't have anything to do with him. Most times he goes out to jug, climb the hills for the fun of climbing and sometimes he goes to play football, when he is not doing any of these he is reading or sleeping.
We are all members of the local team, the environment we live in is serene, the hills surrounding us and the vegetation are quite beautiful. Looking out of the window in the morning during the rains reminds one that God is the achitect and builder of the rear nature that we enjoy. I have never regreted coming to live here for one day. The lodge where Nathan lives is far from where live. We meet often because I visit his lodge often. I will say that I have a very warm relationship with every one of his house-mates. There are four of them.
The design of their house is such that everyone has his own room but share a general sitting room,kitchen,toilet and pavement.They lived so well until the devil intruded into their midst,the detail of what transpired is not for now.The other house-mates Henry,Isaiah and Racheal are people of very good disposition when the going is good. Racheal is a warm character,she has the voice of a man, she is very plain,I would not say she is beautiful,she is not ugly either,but my boss the commander called her a "genetic accident" that she should have been a man, so that explains why she has no qualms mixing freely with we men. I love her in my own way, I love her so much,I mean like a sister, whether she feels differently for me I cannot tell but I know we enjoy each others company.
Henry and Isaiah are not close pals, whenever I visit, I spend some few minutes with them individualy.Severaly they are very strange bed fellow. They always have at least one problem to solve.They disagree, they querrel,but they do not fight as in exchange of blows but they disagree sharply on issues and actions,but one man's ability to forbear held the bond of friendship together. If only I can forgive like he does even when he is in the right and wrongly affronted , he always find a way of handling every situation and solving every discord amicably.I will be lying if I tell you I dont admire this quality.
Nathan is not a hypothetical example of forbearance, he's a testimonal to it. I don't mean to say that he has no weakness in any area of human relation, he has, but now I choose not to dwell on his negative side because the good in him far out weights the not too good . To forbear means to suffer long, it means to take "shit" from people without reacting badly. If forbearance is a watch word in our world or had been an atitude considered worthwhile perhaps the wars that had been frought in the past could have been averted. These numerous battles claimed lives and property worth millions of dollars. These qualities of life that we cannot see-abstract qualities like this forbearance worth more than anyone can place a price on.
I have seen this young man assulted, insulted, humiliated, affronted yet he never lost his cool. He does not dwell on misgivings yet he is a leader of men, you cannot take that away from him. One only have to know someone else with this type of character to appreciate Nathan, he is one of many ordinary men doing extraordinary things to make the world a better place.At any rate, it depends on the side of the divide you choose to be,if virtues such as this doesn't mean much to

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