LESSON 1: AGE IS JUST A NUMBER
There is no time that the saying, “age is just a number” truer than in death. Growing up, I had the notion that old people are the only ones that die until life threw me a hard punch and showed me otherwise.
That Wednesday, 8 June 2011 started like every other day until my sister, Cecelia received a call with the person telling her that “Goddy tsar.”
When I heard that, my first thought was, “go look for him na.” Until the person clarified by saying “A tsar ku.” Kpesh! It was unbelievably funny to me because in my mind, I had conjured up a thousand and one reasons why it was ‘imposicant’ for a 23 year old healthy young man to just die like that.
But alas, death didn’t think of his age when it came knocking. It took him in a surprisingly sudden way, we were told he went to church after lectures to pray. He knelt at the altar to pray and after he was done and stood up, he slumped and that was it. 🥹
My niece, Praise’s death was an even worst reiteration that age is just a number as far as death is concerned. She was only 13 when she died on 12 October 2017.
I was livid that death could snatch such a little girl who had her whole life ahead of her but guess what? Death didn’t care, it took her anyway. It was like it looked me in the face and laughed saying “Jokes on you Shagba, I’ll take whoever I take irrespective of age.”
PPBlessing 