Olavista
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I buried my dad today.
The ground felt heavier than it should. Every handful of earth carried a weight I could not explain. It was not just soil. It was finality. It was silence closing in on a voice I knew too well.
People spoke around me. Prayers were said. Hands rested on my shoulders. I heard none of it the way I used to hear things. Everything sounded distant, like life had stepped a few feet away from me and refused to come closer.
I kept looking at the coffin, trying to make sense of it. Trying to connect the man who filled rooms with presence to something so still. It did not add up. It still does not.
Life shows its true nature in moments like this. One minute it feels steady, like something you can hold and plan around. The next, it slips through your fingers without warning. No announcement. No negotiation. Just gone.
I thought I understood loss before today. I didn’t. Today made it clear that nothing prepares you for the moment you have to let go for real. Not in thought. Not in words. But in action. In standing there and watching as the world takes someone back.
There is a strange kind of clarity that comes with it. Not comfort. Not peace. Just clarity. You see how fragile everything is. How quickly laughter turns into memory. How a person becomes a story you will spend the rest of your life telling.
I stood there longer than I needed to. Or maybe not long enough. I don’t know. Time did not behave the way it should. It stretched and folded in ways I could not control.
All I know is that today stripped life down to its simplest truth. We are here, and then we are not. And everything in between is all we get.
I felt shivers seeing him for the last time.
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@yabaleftonline Landlords collecting caution fee for a house that’s not fixed and not wanting to return it when you’re leaving after fixing the house yourself.
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@yabaleftonline Going to church, By force greeting , worshiping money,
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@geoffreykamadik @Dean200124 Logic before emotions always especially as a man 🙂
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@Dean200124 You are calling that idiot fucking your wife as 'bro'??he should be fighting for his life in ICU 🥺🥺😳
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@MartinGlennon @kaizen000000000 Logic before emotions… as a man, it’s very important.
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@kaizen000000000 Bro, stop hating on others. Let them believe if they want to. Is there some atheist mandate to preach to all believers? It's immature and pathetic. Other people are helping solve real problems.
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Make man dey kneel down propose at 47? 😭😭💔
Happy married life in advance to them anyways. 🙏🏾
CHUKS 🍥@ChuksEricE
47-year-old veteran Igbo rapper, Okechukwu Emmanuel, popularly known as SlowDog, off the single Market, as he knelt down to propose to his lover♥️💍
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@Theforeigner05 @HardBStrain High na high…. Laslas
Rizla o, backy o, pawpaw leaf o, kanaku o…
as long as the weed solid… we go meet for cloud 9 😁
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@HardBStrain You know we are still going to achieve same trips pending on the strain we use
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@IzubestMemphis @AdageorgeA See where you still insert this God lmao
Nawa o
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@AdageorgeA Why are you posting it here,no one force you to do it,so just pray make God touch her to refund it,
I just don't know why you decided to post her here 🤔😞😞😔
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@sheni_coker @harrisonJNIOR Even as most lounges
They sell rubbish types of meats… especially chicken. Then they use peppersoup to cover up the nonsense meat.
Don’t be deceived by the yeye disco lights displayed.
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