09/03/2024
There are times when I think of life and the continuous going and coming that goes on forever – people being born and people gradually dying – and how the world moves on indifferent to our losses, maintaining its memories like nothing happened; I do ask myself if there is any purpose to this.
I cannot describe the sense of helplessness that comes with standing alone at the park mourning someone close while watching the world move on around you unaffected by your loss. Nothing will ever prepare you for this. It feels like the world has spun out of its orbit and rotated far away from you.
Sometimes when I look at the infinite size and symmetry of the cosmos, it does appear like life is an anomaly – one unforgivable and self-replicating mistake – that the Universe itself is trying hard to correct. It does seem like our love and laughter, our pains and prayers, sighs and sufferings, consciousness and courses of people, places, plants and planktons – this incongruous and intriguing collage – do not make sense at all. And are all but a waste of space and time and everything else in between.
Excerpt from my article - On Losing Someone Close.
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by Chukwudi Ezeamalukwuo Okoye It is impossible to fully comprehend the feeling of suddenly losing s
