The Wake-Up Call

A lot of things happen to us during the course of our lives that literally take a toll on our emotions, mindset, and the way we see life. Sometimes this can be so devastating that it'll lead to depression and disinterest in different things we used to love. On other occasions, such experiences can lead to a positive change that redirects our mind into a new path, seeing life in a new light, and longing to break bonds to achieve all that we set our minds on.

During the course of my life till this point, I've been through tick and thin, pleasant and unpleasant experiences, and each one tends to leave behind a positive or negative impact depending on how I'm affected by the situation and the like. I could remember back when I lost my grandparents a couple of years ago, I was literally sad, angry, mad, devastated, and several other things related to that with myself.

You might be wondering why there were such enormous reactions towards the passing of my grandparents. Well, the reason isn't Farfetch; it was with the ones with whom I spent my entire childhood, and they were the ones who literally taught me almost every moral lesson I knew and live by till date. Given the amount of love they showed me and as well raised me with, I had promised myself that I'd give them heaven and earth when I'm grown up and start working.

But that wasn't the case because I almost deviated away from my promises immediately after I gained admission into the university. I guess that's as a result of the freedom the institution presents; being free from home led to me deciding to savage the money and enjoy all of it while it lasts, unknown to me that life won't wait for me. To make it understandable, throughout the 5 years I spent in the higher institution, I didn't go home for the last four years.

What I forgot to know is that as time passes, my grandparents are getting older and are getting nearer to their end. Well, unfortunately, before I did graduate, one of them passed on, and it pained me a lot because on several occasions she'd call me enquiring about when I'd come home from school during our holidays and how much she had missed me, but me, I was having the belief that we'd meet when I graduated, so I always lie about being busy with school work.

The day I was called and informed about the passing of my grandmother, reality dawned on me, and I couldn't help but reflect on every single experience we've shared, and even the time I had to use excuses to avoid going home despite how she said she misses me, it was a devastating experience but a call to action for me to make a change and never let anything whatsoever take the place of our family and loved ones.

Regardless of what it's and how exciting it's, we should always create time for our loved ones. No one knows what the next minute has in store for us, not to mention tomorrow and the like, so making the present count is very essential so we won't live a regretful life. Had I known, I would have done things differently, which was the situation I found myself in back then.

To make matters worse, by the time she passed and I had vowed to not do the same with my grandfather, I was in the final year then and was held up by several tasking demands of the final year that prevented me from visiting him like I would have loved to, and unfortunately for me, six months after my grandmother died, grandpa also followed suit, and then I knew within myself that I had made a huge mistake in my life.

And since then I've given it my all to not let anything whatsoever get me to tangled to the point where I'll so prioritize it or let it hinder me from having quality times with my family and loved ones. Their death, the experience, and the lessons learned from it were a wakeup call for me that shaped my mindset and the way I think and act since then.

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