Learning the Hard Way

Two months ago, someone close to mine requested me to do a favor. He had some work for me from someone we both know, I wasn't accepting the offer in the first place but as it was within our familiarity I could refuse their constant requests. If you do something or get done something from a stranger, there stays no dent in the future, as it stays within professional boundaries. But when it comes down to our friends, family, relatives, or known persons, often it gets back to us with dents in one way or the other. That's why I don't want to mix my personal life’s people with the professional one.

📸Zanyar Ibrahim

Let's get to the exact point. I did my tasks with full dedication, they were supposed to pay me on one date, and then the second one went as well. Even the service they had taken me has done its work already, I mean they utilized my service fully and still need to pay. The friend who worked as a middleman was embarrassed as well as he was the person who made me agree to this, I had forbidden him that I wouldn't but he had forced me into such a messy situation.

Their excuse is they too had a partner to pay me, who was a silent partner with whom I had no deal or interactions. But now I am struck due to their other partner who hasn't given his share yet. Should I listen to this? Is this a valid excuse?

It's not like that I am badly in need of that money, without which I will go in hunger, nooo—nothing like that. I never did anything desperately for money, I do from my passion and people come to me as well because I have always fulfilled my assigned projects with full dedication and they got good results too. That is why people felt bad when I did resign from my recent job. Even if he doesn't pay me, I won't be facing any problems but the fact is, why would I leave my hard-earned money in vain like this?

People without conscience are inhuman to me no matter how much wealth they possess or pretend to be good. In fact, they trade their conscience to earn money on the way. Well, there is a term “Karma is a Bitch” which is what they got unwillingly. One of them got to face something bad a couple of days ago, they got restricted on something that cost him a lot of damage for sure. That's what we are by depriving people of what they should get in time. I am just pissed off, I haven't said anything directly nor do I want to, I just informed the middleman and sitting quietly just to see how far they can drag this too, how long their conscience can be slept like this, just waiting. I will write off expecting this money after a couple of days, and won't accept it after that either.

This one incident makes me feel negative whenever I get to face the mixing of professional and personal lives. That's why I run away from mixing them, not to scratch the relations.