Thank God I'm Not The One

She died in labour, “Oh my God, can’t imagine, thank God I was not the one’’. She failed her exams, “Ehyah, thank God I passed mine once’’. I can go on and on. Tragedies befall people and I’m not saying you should wish you were the victim, far from it. If life was a movie, it’ll definitely end as a tragi-comedic one. Some will end up smiling, some dead, some sad and alive.

A lot of us are not exactly sympathetic about what happens to other people as long as they don’t affect us directly. We’re more gladdened by the fact we’re not the one affected but have you ever stopped to think for a minute “what if I was the one?’’ Errrr no, as long as it didn’t happen to us, it’s as good as not happened at all.

I’ve seen a lot of cases where people are very confident that some of the challenges people face will never happen to them but sadly, it eventually does happen to them in like seven folds or more. It has made me realise that anything can happen to anyone. No one is too super to face challenges except God says you won’t go through it so next time, before you become too happy about not being the victim of a particular circumstance. Put yourself in their shoes and think ‘what if it was me?’

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