REFLECTIONS by BiliMaffy

The loss of a loved one... Grief! I totally lost the words to describe the pain. I froze. The pen fell off my fingers. I wrote neater than I usually would-that means I was just moving from one letter to another. It lacked flow and coherence.I managed to scribble a few lines and... I just stopped. There was no use. This time, the words eluded me. I didn't need to write out my heart. I needed to let out the tears. The tears had to flow until I released enough pain holding tightly on my chest. I can say succinctly that, never in my whole existence have I cried, or wept that much. I was shattered. In great disbelief. Even though I know for a fact that, death is irreversible. I was still hoping, in my head that, the news just wasn't true. That there was just a misinformation. That we would be called back, and told it was a scare. That he passed out. And that he was awake now. But those were my delusional thoughts. My desires. If it happened during the time of Isa, the son of Mary(Je...

The shots we never took. The calls we deferred. The visit we postponed. The misgivings we held on to. The forgiveness we refused to grant. The help we failed to render. The anger we refused to let go. The families we cared not for. The friends we ignored. The friendship we took for granted. The partner we cheated. The weak we took advantage of. The gentle ones we oppressed. The hungry we choose not to feed. The knowledge we hoarded. The guidance we mute on. The wrong we never corrected. All of these and more, would be impossible... when the soul leaves the body. Why not make it today and not "tomorrow"! Who promises you tomorrow? Why leave till tomorrow what you can do today? Save yourself the heartache of regrets. Everyday you wake up is a new day to do things differently. Start now!

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Correct Like You Care! We often may not be able to tell between guiding someone to do something correctly, and scolding them for doing it wrongly; without the actual correction. It's a thin line. You probably might have come across the viral post about how the "Yoruba mother corrects with all kinds of insults"...but none of which we take seriously now. Being a child then, you may think differently when your mother refers to you as an imbecile. But of course, you know she birthed you and would never wish for a disabled child. Now that we are older and know better, we generally agree they never meant those words. But fast-forward to present day married or not, your partner or work colleagues tells you, 'you're a dumb head' , or 'empty brained' while attempting to correct you, how would you feel? Or your spouse tells you the reason the house is untidy is because you were picked from the gutters? Or say, you do not know how to care for a child because your...