IT IS NOT FAVORITISM

I went somewhere in 2019. It was a gathering of young professionals across different industries. All participants were to pay some fees at the registration stand in front of the event hall. As we advanced slowly on the long queue, the organization's director who organized the event was walking by the queue when he suddenly stopped and came towards where I stood on the queue. I knew he was not coming to me because we had never met physically or had any relationship with him before then, even though I had read all his books and contents online.He got to my spot and asked the young man in front of me if he was the son of a particular person; the young man said YES. The director beamed with so much joy, and he asked the young man to leave the queue and follow him. He took him to the auditorium, and they never had to go through the registration stand. I eventually did my registration, and I saw the young man seated in the front row, waiting for other participants to come in.In my mind, he must be a son of an influential person or a celebrity for him to get such a privilege of not going through the queue. I felt somehow and some guys on the queue also grumbled a bit. I saved the name in my head to google later. Don't mind me; I just wanted to know whose son he was to leave me in the sun and to get a front-row seat.I had forgotten entirely about this incident until yesterday when I read the director's latest book. In the book, he narrated a story of a total stranger who took him in and fed him for four years when he was a homeless undergraduate at Makarere University. Boom!, the name clicked. I went to the event brochure to check the name. The father of that young man he took away from the queue was the friend he described in the book.Well, with this story, I am just here to tell you not to get unnecessarily angry when some things look like favouritism; some people are simply reaping the humanity investment made by them or by their parents. Favouritism (the practice of giving unfair preferential treatment to one person or group at the expense of another) is always different from reaping the investment of good deeds.He gives understanding to the simple.Oluwaseun David ADEPOJU