MY FEBRUARY FUNERAL- INSPIRED BY OMOBOLANLE OLUBUNMI’S FUNERAL
The futility of my mortality is the mortality of my futility -INSPIRED BY A FUNERAL.
The futility of my mortality is the mortality of my futility!
I am at a funeral? She was forty three years old. Yes merely four decades and three.
Did she live her best life?
Did she complete her race?
Did she finish her course and her cause?
Did she live happy memories behind?
Did she affect the lives of people around her?
Did she accomplish God’s purpose for her life?
Me attend funeral at the beginning of the New Year and decade? It is not my thing!
I particularly have never liked deaths, funerals and the likes.
Why must people die? Why must we experience pain, sorrow and the likes?
Why must young people die and their vibrant lives be suddenly cut short and cut down?
I understand the pain of grief and the grief of pain.
I never can understand why a young, beautiful, purposeful and intelligent woman, sister, wife, mother, career minded and successful woman like the one I have come to pay my last respect to today will suddenly slump to the cold hands of death. As if death understood all my fancy words of eulogy and accolades. Life they say happens at least that is what they say.
I am naturally pained and devastated by the loss but trust me it was a great and wonderfully learning ground for me to learn these lessons which I feel obligated to share with you my friend.
Why must young people die and their vibrant lives be suddenly cut short and cut down?
I never can understand why a young, beautiful, purposeful and intelligent woman, sister, wife, career minded and successful woman like the one I have come to pay my last respect to today will suddenly slump to the cold hands of death.
I am naturally pained and devastated by the loss but trust me it was a great and wonderfully learning ground for me to learn these lessons which I feel obligated to share with you my brother, sister and friend.
1. Live a focused, purposeful, planned life.
2. Live everyday as if it was your last planning for the worst and hoping for the best. Do not procrastinate, do not hesitate, do not merely congregate! It is time to appreciate and deliberate with the view to inculcate all that you know and have learned with the determination to demonstrate your true worth and value on the world’s stage.
3. Live a life of loving, giving, sharing, hoping, believing, forgiving and investing.
4. Live a life of FAITH and never fear, confront your fears head on! Never surrendering, quitting or cowering.
5. Live courageously and boldly, do the very things you think you cannot do and realize that you only have only one life and in life there is no dress rehearsal so, go out there and make things happen rather than watch and applaud others who have the guts to do the impossible.
6. Live an affective and passionate life. Why be dull, boring and totally unexciting?
7. Live a life of helping others along the way, no matter how small you think your contribution is, find a cause and leave your mark on the sands of time. The lives you affect are the ones who will eventually attend your funeral when you bow to life’s tolls.
8. Live Powerfully. Let your little light shine for all to see. Only the strong survive, only the strong arrive, so do not be afraid to live your dreams and live your best life NOW! That hidden dream, that hidden passion, that hidden desire, are you planning on leaving this side of the divide still pregnant with them when you can ensure that you die empty, like Dr. Myles Munroe my mentor would say, he is my mentor but he does not yet know! Only you know your highest potential, only you know exactly how far you can soar and how far you can achieve, so you must ensure that you become all that you were born to be and achieve all that you were born to achieve. Remember you are unique! Remember you are special and peculiar! Remember you are specially gifted and endowed, let humanity see a glimpse of your greatness.
9. Live by giving life all of your best shot. Do not accept Nos! Do not see limitations! Do not back off, back down or allow limitations! Do not allow life to give you its second hand bless me downs when you can create and participate in your own special field and excel in life. If you are in a relationship that is headed nowhere by all means get off! If it is a marriage situation then I will advise work it out and pray it through! If you are working in a dead beat boring killer job that makes you sorrowful and sad then it’s time to go after your dream, that job that makes you happy that you can do without getting paid and still feel at your best and happiest!
10. Live happily, seriously, playfully, in a balanced and great fashion. Live today for today, do keep postponing your happy and glad days till tomorrow, truth is tomorrow never comes all we have is in the now and by the time we get to tomorrow again it becomes today! So all you postponers of joy, gladness and happiness do not be fooled, do all the good you can do whilst it is still called today and let all your joy and gladness flow freely and enjoy the day while it is still called day! Let nothing stand against you and your happiness, you deserve to be happy so fight every enemy that wants to stand against you and your joy. Live happily you only have just one life, why be sad, pessimistic and grumpy when you can be happy, excited and full of joy. Let some humor in and never take yourself too seriously.
11. Live simply and humbly. When evil men die men rejoice and when good men die the people wail and wail because an angel has left the earth. Remember mother Theresa, great men are ordinary men who do extraordinary things, look at the life of Nelson Mandela, or the great and legendary Dr. King who fought for justice and equality in America. To become great you must be humble and impart and impact humanity. Self centered, and egoistic people who arrogate power and wealth to themselves are always remembered in bad light if remembered at all. Who wants to be a HITLER or an ABACHA of Nigeria. Somehow deaths always have a tale to tell of the lives we lived, every hidden thing will be revealed, so adopt a simple, uncomplicated life that is accessible and humbling. Our Reverend man of God, the great but humble General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God speaks poetically of how you can both be humble and yet great.
12. Live with eternity in mind. There is life after this life and do not for once imagine that we will not at the end give account of all our doings on this side of the divide. Do not join the group of skeptics that believes all that matters is here and now and after death it is sleep eternally. I believe that at the end there will be judgment, and God our maker will require that we all give accounts of what we have done in these bodies, so live knowing fully well that one day we will give accounts whether for good or for evil.
Finally I have written many pieces in my time, but in my mind and heart, the import and power of what I learnt on the day of OMOBOLANLE OLUBUNMI’s burial will stand for me one of the greatest learning days and so one of my biggest pieces. Every time I write, I want lives to be transformed, changed and made better, my prayer is that my February Funeral piece will resonate in your heart and mind and cause you to live a life that is great yet humble, exciting yet simple, passionate yet purposeful. It is POSSIBLE!
If these words touched you positively then you have my permission to pass this piece to friends, family and colleagues.
Best Wishes.
VICTORIA FADEYI
Copyright @ VICTORIA FADEYI FEBRUARAYMY FEBRUARY FUNERAL- INSPIRED BY OMOBOLANLE OLUBUNMI’S FUNERAL
The futility of my mortality is the mortality of my futility -INSPIRED BY A FUNERAL.
The futility of my mortality is the mortality of my futility!
I am at a funeral? She was forty three years old. Yes merely four decades and three.
Did she live her best life?
Did she complete her race?
Did she finish her course and her cause?
Did she live happy memories behind?
Did she affect the lives of people around her?
Did she accomplish God’s purpose for her life?
Me attend funeral at the beginning of the New Year and decade? It is not my thing!
I particularly have never liked deaths, funerals and the likes.
Why must people die? Why must we experience pain, sorrow and the likes?
Why must young people die and their vibrant lives be suddenly cut short and cut down?
I understand the pain of grief and the grief of pain.
I never can understand why a young, beautiful, purposeful and intelligent woman, sister, wife, mother, career minded and successful woman like the one I have come to pay my last respect to today will suddenly slump to the cold hands of death. As if death understood all my fancy words of eulogy and accolades. Life they say happens at least that is what they say.
I am naturally pained and devastated by the loss but trust me it was a great and wonderfully learning ground for me to learn these lessons which I feel obligated to share with you my friend.
I am naturally pained and devastated by the loss but trust me it was a great and wonderfully learning ground for me to learn these lessons which I feel obligated to share with you my brother, sister and friend.
1. Live a focused, purposeful, planned life.
2. Live everyday as if it was your last planning for the worst and hoping for the best. Do not procrastinate, do not hesitate, do not merely congregate! It is time to appreciate and deliberate with the view to inculcate all that you know and have learned with the determination to demonstrate your true worth and value on the world’s stage.
3. Live a life of loving, giving, sharing, hoping, believing, forgiving and investing.
4. Live a life of FAITH and never fear, confront your fears head on! Never surrendering, quitting or cowering.
5. Live courageously and boldly, do the very things you think you cannot do and realize that you only have only one life and in life there is no dress rehearsal so, go out there and make things happen rather than watch and applaud others who have the guts to do the impossible.
6. Live an affective and passionate life. Why be dull, boring and totally unexciting?
7. Live a life of helping others along the way, no matter how small you think your contribution is, find a cause and leave your mark on the sands of time. The lives you affect are the ones who will eventually attend your funeral when you bow to life’s tolls.
8. Live Powerfully. Let your little light shine for all to see. Only the strong survive, only the strong arrive, so do not be afraid to live your dreams and live your best life NOW! That hidden dream, that hidden passion, that hidden desire, are you planning on leaving this side of the divide still pregnant with them when you can ensure that you die empty, like Dr. Myles Munroe my mentor would say, he is my mentor but he does not yet know! Only you know your highest potential, only you know exactly how far you can soar and how far you can achieve, so you must ensure that you become all that you were born to be and achieve all that you were born to achieve. Remember you are unique! Remember you are special and peculiar! Remember you are specially gifted and endowed, let humanity see a glimpse of your greatness.
9. Live by giving life all of your best shot. Do not accept Nos! Do not see limitations! Do not back off, back down or allow limitations! Do not allow life to give you its second hand bless me downs when you can create and participate in your own special field and excel in life. If you are in a relationship that is headed nowhere by all means get off! If it is a marriage situation then I will advise work it out and pray it through! If you are working in a dead beat boring killer job that makes you sorrowful and sad then it’s time to go after your dream, that job that makes you happy that you can do without getting paid and still feel at your best and happiest!
10. Live happily, seriously, playfully, in a balanced and great fashion. Live today for today, do keep postponing your happy and glad days till tomorrow, truth is tomorrow never comes all we have is in the now and by the time we get to tomorrow again it becomes today! So all you postponers of joy, gladness and happiness do not be fooled, do all the good you can do whilst it is still called today and let all your joy and gladness flow freely and enjoy the day while it is still called day! Let nothing stand against you and your happiness, you deserve to be happy so fight every enemy that wants to stand against you and your joy. Live happily you only have just one life, why be sad, pessimistic and grumpy when you can be happy, excited and full of joy. Let some humor in and never take yourself too seriously.
11. Live simply and humbly. When evil men die men rejoice and when good men die the people wail and wail because an angel has left the earth. Remember mother Theresa, great men are ordinary men who do extraordinary things, look at the life of Nelson Mandela, or the great and legendary Dr. King who fought for justice and equality in America. To become great you must be humble and impart and impact humanity. Self centered, and egoistic people who arrogate power and wealth to themselves are always remembered in bad light if remembered at all. Who wants to be a HITLER or an ABACHA of Nigeria. Somehow deaths always have a tale to tell of the lives we lived, every hidden thing will be revealed, so adopt a simple, uncomplicated life that is accessible and humbling. Our Reverend man of God, the great but humble General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God speaks poetically of how you can both be humble and yet great.
12. Live with eternity in mind. There is life after this life and do not for once imagine that we will not at the end give account of all our doings on this side of the divide. Do not join the group of skeptics that believes all that matters is here and now and after death it is sleep eternally. I believe that at the end there will be judgment, and God our maker will require that we all give accounts of what we have done in these bodies, so live knowing fully well that one day we will give accounts whether for good or for evil.
Finally I have written many pieces in my time, but in my mind and heart, the import and power of what I learnt on the day of OMOBOLANLE OLUBUNMI’s burial will stand for me one of the greatest learning days and so one of my biggest pieces. Every time I write, I want lives to be transformed, changed and made better, my prayer is that my February Funeral piece will resonate in your heart and mind and cause you to live a life that is great yet humble, exciting yet simple, passionate yet purposeful. It is POSSIBLE!
If these words touched you positively then you have my permission to pass this piece to friends, family and colleagues.
Best Wishes.
VICTORIA FADEYI
Copyright @ VICTORIA FADEYI FEBRUARAY 2010
victoriafadeyi@yahoo.com
2010
victoriafadeyi@yahoo.com
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