My sister and my husband picked a good harvest of nuts and decided to sell, I was not allowed to take a peanut.

“This year’s nut harvest has been spectacular. I wanted a few handfuls, so I asked Vanya for permission. He refused because he had already put the nuts on sale. I live in the city, my sister sometimes gives guests from the village where she lives with her husband and children, says Vera. A woman lives alone, her only joy is her niece. She helps them all, only her sister's husband is not at all happy with the city guest and even regrets nuts.



Harvest of Nuts: I decided to go to the village for the weekend to take a little distraction from work. After a difficult week, it would be good to be in nature, return to the parental home, forget about all the troubles. Not this time. I came to the house where my sister and husband now live.



They stayed here 30 years ago, and I went to university looking for a better life in the city. That's where I stayed. She found a job, met her husband there, slowly moved up the career ladder and built a personal life. I moved into my husband’s house and my sister said I was very lucky. She also said that from now on, her parents’ home would be hers. I didn't see any prospects in the village, so I agreed.



I immediately gave up part of the house in favor of Oli. Two years later she gave birth to a child, then another. Every weekend I came to the village with two huge bags of food and things. I love my nephews very much, I did not expect any gratitude from my sister, because I did everything sincerely, as long as the children were happy.



Sometimes I was called to the holidays, I came. My nephews loved me a lot too. When I divorced my husband, I began to come more often, I was happy when I was called to celebrate the New Year in my parents’ house. When Oli's eldest daughter went to university, I agreed to help with the payment. During my studies, my niece moved to live with me.



Oli's husband disliked me immediately. He had long considered himself the master of my home and did not like it when I came. Vanya has never hidden that he does not feel sympathy for me. When Olya packed some homemade products with her, Vanya always looked disapproving. In the city, I can buy it myself, but my sister insisted, because it's my own home. And I didn't say no.



There were a lot of nuts this year. Vanya collected them and dried them near the house in the yard. I wanted to get home a little, I really like walnuts. And the sister's husband forbade, they say, he has already found a buyer and left everything for sale. It made me uncomfortable. What would it take for this Ivan if I took a bag of nuts? I'm not taking the bag. It hurts me that I have always treated my relatives kindly, and they do this kind of ugly thing. I didn't say anything to Ole, but I didn't take the bag of potatoes and eggs she had collected. The sister did not notice anything and asked to borrow money for the wedding for the youngest daughter. I certainly agreed.”

Education for all people is different. Someone was born in a happy family and has no regrets for anyone all his life. There are greedy people. It is good when good people are not like enemies. We can’t change anyone, but should we resent those who don’t love us? Or is it better to give all the attention and warmth to those who deserve it? Sister and beloved nieces? What would you do if you were Vera?