Loss
Oluchi Akam@oluchiakam
10 months ago
When I got immersed in the world of Data filled phone as a late teen, I reasoned if my life was a ten, a five of it would be my phone while the remaining half would be God.
It would be nightmare to imagine myself without a phone and an internet. Until the fateful Wednesday someone snatched it from me while I dozed off in a night class.
At first, I reasoned it may be in my bag. Why would I just conclude someone took it. So after all said and done, the phone was still no where to be found. That was when I accepted my reality: I had fallen asleep with the phone on my palms and someone who valued it more snatched it from me.
what would I tell my people. I wanted to cry but the tears weren't coming. The night was so cold I felt like I was going to freeze.
I laid on my bed and right there on my bed I thought of all the 637 books I hadn't opened which is now lost with the phone; I thought of all the videos I made with my lover and the pictures that were supposed to be memories; I thought of the audios I had left sleep to download; I thought of all these and more and I couldn't come to tears maybe I felt like it couldn't be But it was.
When it was dawn, I was consoled by concerned fellows. After which, I went about my normal routine.
There was now no call to make; no internet to search; no videos to watch; no music to listen to; no soft copy books to read; no pictures to view and many more.
In these moments I realized how occupied I've been that I forgot what life had always been and was supposed to be.
Now that I had less to do, I remembered meditation; I retired to where I left off in my bible; I discovered hardcopy books my dad had bought at an arm and a leg with lots of knowledge that could help me scale the world through. I realized all these and more and I shared my grief with them.
I later got a better phone, although, I still missed and will keep missing the former. I learnt to balance things. I learnt to be mobile wise and still not forget the essence of life and things which were not mobile phones.
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