Tag: #Kindness

With a heavy heart and total submission to the will of God, we regret to announce the passing away of our husband, father, brother uncle and friend, Late Architect Edikan Uwem, who slept in the Lord…

‘Eya, he must have been a good man’, Ejiro interjected with a sorry look on his face. ‘How do you know he was a good man Ejiro? Have you met him before?’, I asked, rather irritated. ‘He’s dead Bisola! The least you can do is sympathise!’. ‘Sympathise with who Ejiro? With the wife I’ve never met or the children I don’t know?’. ‘Bisola, what did this poor man do to you? Isn’t it sad that he’s no more?’. ‘Ejiro, I’m just surprised that all of a sudden, he’s a good man. Why do we even wait for people to die to say good things about them? I bet if you’d walked past the man on the road, you wouldn’t realise that he’s ‘so good’ a man as you say’.

Ejiro went quiet and he pondered on my words. I rose to take a seat beside him, taking his hands in mine. ‘I’m sorry if I sounded harsh. I only wish we could all love more, smile at people more, care more, appreciate people more while we still can and not when they are no more. I am guilty of not doing all these too so it’s a big boat and all of us are sailing on it’. Ejiro sat in silence as we listened to an aeroplane fly over at a distance.

Finally, Ejiro broke the silence. ‘Get dressed let’s go out for dinner’. ‘Wow! He’s taking me out in like forever! Today must be my Remembrance Day!’. ‘Don’t worry, you’ll live to die another day’, Ejiro responded. We let out a hearty laugh as I stood to get ready.