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Waking Up To The Sad Reality Of Life || IAmAliveChallenge #245 || IAmAliveAndThriving || 10.04.2026.

Gone So Soon! The day of one's birth usually full of rejoicing and songs of praises, but the day of one's death is full of pains, sorrow and grief! Death the very opposite of life - where is your sting!

On Wednesday 8th April 2026, the call of my dad woke me up! When I picked up the call, he said "come quickly as you can this morning, I am having sharp pains in the chest." I didn't wait to ask him much because the voice was so faint, so I prepared and rush down to Ikot Ekpene. Bought him some drugs and checked his heartbeat. I stayed for some hours and found out that he is relief before I returned to Uyo.

Today, 10th of April 2026 by 5.55am his call woke me and I quickly picked it up only to hear a female voice telling me to come as far as I can, that my dad has been rushed to the general hospital and was rejected, right there I knew there is a problem.

My brother and others took him to five different hospital but with no solution, at last he was confirm death!

I felt as if the whole world has crumble over me as I close my eyes several times and open again and again only to realize that I am not day dreaming but the very sad reality of life.

So the 10th of April 2026 has recorded itself as the saddest day in my life where the very cold hands of death took away the pillar of the family.

Looking at my mum and siblings crying, sobbing, wailing and calling out to him while he remains mute is a mental pictures that will remain indelible in my memory.

As I watch his corpse deposited to the mutualry, the taught of not seeing him again, going back home without him, pull a painful and heavy outbost of tears within me, and I create this post, I can't even give a vivid explanations of my mental state as heavy drops of tears keeps rolling down my eyes.

Oh Death, where is your sting, what a sad reality of life!