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Move On

No song on my playlist could describe how I'm feeling right now.
Maybe "sad" by Maroon 5 though not in the same context but you get the point.
I'm asking myself why bad things happen to good people, I've been asking for years though and no one seems to have the answer.
Is it about Kehinde Olowoidiaba's death?
He was a nice kid, he didn't deserve to die but who does anyway. He was one of the happy people I knew, I never saw him frown. I was in SS1 at the time, SS1 Platinum but he was in gold. He usually came to my class, called every girl his wife. He was very jovial, it was never a dull moment around him.
But then, he had to die.
Aunty Latifat was my Aunt's friend, she was very sweet to I and my brother whenever we went to visit her or followed my aunt to her house then one day, she had to die.
Hers was the first loss that personally affected me, it was hard for me to accept that I was never going to see her again.
When I heard about her death, I expected it to be accompanied by an "it's a lie o" but no, she was gone for real.
As if that wasn't bad enough, Mummy Dayo too had to die.
Mummy Dayo was one of the sweetest women I had met if not the sweetest. She worried about me like I was her own child but then again, she had to die.
Then Yemi too had to die (read about her in one of my previous posts).


You're probably wondering why I'm writing all these, let me fill you in.
I slept at about 5am this morning because I stayed up all night watching a series called the revolution. Woke up by 6am for morning devotion, went back to bed then woke up at about 8am to run an errand.
I turned on my phone to reply mails and all but I discovered that my phone had developed a mind of its own so I had to wipe off every data. I had a lot of useful information saved on it and now it's all gone.
It then got me thinking about why bad things happen to good people but then, thank God it isn't something more tragic like the phone being stolen at least I could wipe the phone because I saw it.
My data loss can't be compared to the loss of the aforementioned people. I know we've all lost valuable possessions and people and it's hard to believe that we would have to survive without them but I think it's time to move on.
There are certain questions we might never get an answer to, curiosity doesn't make the situation any better so I say RIP to every one and thing we've lost, let's stop crying over spilled milk.
Let's Move On.


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Comments

Paul Newton said…
There are several advantages in loss..it opens our eyes to amend our wrongs then edit our mistakes.
There are stories I misplaces but when I rewrite it, it gets better.

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