24/08/2026
*Truth About Life*
Death is inevitable. We will all go one day.
But what legacy are we leaving behind — in goodness or in evil?
I don’t need memorial stones.
I don’t need my name engraved on a tomb.
Don’t bury me in an expensive coffin that termites will eventually eat.
Don’t even organize a funeral for me.
The food I couldn’t afford in life will be served there.
And even if I could afford it, would I eat from it?
People will post condolences when most never knew how I struggled,
how I sacrificed for them, only to end up being sacrificed.
The truth is, only a few will truly feel my passing.
Most people come to the orange tree not because they love the tree,
but because of the fruit it bears.
That is the weight death carries.
The money we labour for will be spent by strangers.
Or if we’re generous and leave it for our people,
it will still end up in hands that never laboured for it.
So what is this life we’re rushing to earn,
only to lose our health in the process?
Will I be idle because death is inevitable? No.
I will work hard — but not to eat the bread of sorrow.
Anything outside the right way of earning, I reject.
And even if it’s “legitimate” but it separates me from God,
I will reject it.
For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul?
Every birthday, death draws nearer.
Gradually, I am leaving this world.
I try hard to reason about death, and end up being
unreasonably reasonable.
One thing I’ve discovered: God uses death to point us to the Creator.
But we only get sober in that moment — at the grave, at the wake.
Then the feeling fades, our hearts get loaded with the things of this world again,
and we forget to fear the day of death and our Creator.
The day a man dies is more important than the day he was born.
He came with no knowledge and no feelings.
But after maturity and wisdom, he still cannot know the day he will die.
And that is a dagger to the hea
My friend,
