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I was busy feeling particularly sorry for myself last weekend – on the verge of throwing a real pity party – when the news started filtering in, and I realized what was truly important.
Life. I read about the fatal shooting of journalist Joe Nam, and as my shocked brain was still digesting that, the news of the demise of Kalangala Woman MP Hellen Nakimuli came in. I cancelled my pity party. I felt terrible thinking about the opportunities, abandoned dreams, children and family, these people had possibly left behind.
Alive and well one minute, dead the next. Joe Nam had stepped out of his house to read his Bible on the veranda as he reportedly often did; that is where the assailant found him. While it is an honourable way to bow out – with the Word of God as your last utterance and meditation – it is still not any less painful for his family.
For Nakimuli, she went in for minor surgery at a private hospital in town, and never came to from the anaesthesia. I don’t see anything minor in a surgery that requires full anaesthesia, though!
But anyway, if you have ever gone under a surgeon’s knife, then you know how suddenly and completely dark and ‘zero’ the world goes for the hours you are under, and no one can account for what happened during that time. Not even a dream.
I can only imagine the shock when one’s soul wakes up on ‘the other side’, seeing things below from a different, inaccessible dimension – if what people recount about their near-death experiences is true.
I felt terrible seeing the deceased MP’s young daughter at the mortuary, after someone picked her up from boarding school and broke the bad news. I finally understood, whatever I am going through may be undeniably bad, but it could be much worse.
As long as you still have breath in your body, there is still room for improvement, praise, testimony, for a total turnaround. So, quit mopping. People are in worse pain.
I pray that the families of these seemingly amazing people (if we are to go by what is being said about them) find healing and comfort that their loved ones are resting in eternal peace.
And may those of us who survive them learn to find gratitude for the simplest things in life. Emphasis: life.
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