DEATH ON WHEELS

In life one sure constant is change, change in nature, position, beings, status, change in life, even in death, change is always a constant. What we don’t seem to realise is that this change is just a revolving circle. Well am not hear to do a brainstorm on change, most people end up in the psych ward for trying. Me, I prefer starting from the end of change which in a way is also the gate way to a new beginning. Talking about death, when one dies another is born, giving way to continuity….bla bla bla! Seriously am beginning to confuse myself.
Death is the one thing most people don’t really pay attention to, well not until you’re 69 using walking stick or you start to dye your grey hair, then you think about it every now and then, when you wake up, your first thought will be “wow! I’m alive”, and when going to bed you always remember to pray and ask for forgiveness, just in case your time expires that night, but before that most young people don’t give death a second thought. True words; not everyone wakes up in the morning and think “wow! I didn’t die in my sleep”, for me my first thoughts are
“Damn I need a cup of coffee…….wait, first brush your teeth, no! First go tell mum good morning “. For some it’s
“Oh crap! I’m going to work today” or,
“Where am I? Oh yeah I remember, last night was wild; 6 bottles; who’s this guy/girl beside me?”
For the righteous ones and the un knowing hypocrites (they don’t realise they are hypocrites), they say their morning prayers, and then the day begins no thought of death. At night you go to bed planning the next day, WHY? Because you’re oblivious to the fact that death lurks around.
And the cycle continues, but what we don’t realise is that death circles us just about the same way air’s around us, just waiting and hoping it gets lucky.
The question now is, “is it because people are afraid of death, they keep it locked in a small room at the back of our brains? Avoiding the thought, or we chose not to acknowledge that it exists, for that reason you see people doing obscene life threatening, death welcoming things? Or maybe we know it’s timetable and are definitely sure your time's not coming soon. (Don’t say that to the family members of October 1st attack)
Whatever the reason, we can’t avoid the basic truth, we all have an expiry date. How? When? Is the question we all don’t know, but if you where to ask people, “How would you want to die?” majority of the reply would be “
"In my sleep",
"Peacefully",
And "when I’m old”.
Why do people have the notion that dying in ones sleep is always peaceful?
99% of the times it happens, the die (ee) is always alone, next morning we all say the dead (ee) died peacefully. PLEASE!!!!! Chances are the person had a heart attack, was choking or possibly had a spasm/convulsion which led to death.
Its hard to picture death as painless, even The Reaper holds a scythe (curve knife), which I definitely don’t think it’s for slicing bread, or farm work, or to compliment his evil looks. So please quit being unrealistic and be a realist. Embrace death, might not be painless but you could always picture your seven virgins waiting for you in paradise. That way you see a bright light at the end of the tunnel. (Quick question: if guys get seven virgins, what do ladies get? Seven hot studs? Lol)
So in the end, what if we where given the choice to pick how to leave this world, what would it be?
GUN:
Russian roulette
Firing squad
Bullet to the head/mouth
Grenade
War
BLADE:
Stabbing
Neck slicing
Wrist slicing
Beheading
EXPLOSION/FIRE:
Gas explosion
Petrol
Nuclear weapon
Missiles
Land mine
Terrorist attack
CRASH:
Plane
Car
Okada
Train (not possible in Nigeria)
DROWNING
Swimming pool
Titanic
Bath tub
OLD SCHOOL:
Crucifixion
Staking
Hanging
Beheading
Gladiator
Stoning
MEDCINE
drugs (illegal overdose)
Diseases
Virus
Lethal injection
Bad health.
In the end deaths inevitable, what matters is how ready and prepared we are for it. A huge percentage of humans don’t wake up with the knowledge of death, probably those on death row, or wanting to commit suicide, or probably grand parents like mine that have lived up to 95. The people that died in the bomb blast on Independence Day 2010, never woke up with the knowledge of their inevitable end. Most times our choices point us in the direction of our downfall, other times it turns us away, but in the end it catches up with us, the only difference is the timing in which it takes to catch up.
My advice, be not afraid for eventually we all have to accept it, see it as a gate way to the end, an end that opens to a new beginning. You have only one life, so why not make the best of it? Death can’t be out run even if you’ve got jet engines, death is on and definitely got faster wheels.