Hi Pauline, the past few days, new meanings of what life is has dawned on me with the demise of Mina.
No matter who you are, when death hits, life goes on.
I went grocery shopping the same day and I still slept and thought of plans for the next day.
Life is meaningful yet meaningless, nothing is worth holding on to.
What is priceless to you is of no value and thus meaningless to another.
In life, we put too much into what we have and things we don't have. When we go, no matter who we are we take not one item, not even our body so to those keeping up with the botox and the likes, enjoy because when the end reaches out, even that turns to dust.
When you lose someone close, the door to writing lines upon lines of what life is or isn't flows like the river running freely through the paths between the grass and cobbled stones, scattered and set over time.
Life is everything yet it's nothing.
I am so glad that I was blessed with Mina's friendship, it was the truest friendship possible in the sense that it was there, but never on a platform of guilt, anger, fear, or burdened with obligations.
It was as free as the birds in the skies and the easiest friendship ever.
We dipped in and out whenever, and had many shared moments of laughter.
She always listened but never pulled down or judged.
She was an uncut and unpolished diamond but I was lucky to realise that even the dirt that often is taken off to reach the gem was precious in what made Mina up.
Uncut and unpolished was the way she had to stay for one to get the full benefit of what and who she was.
To have one true friend is lucky, to have a Mina is a blessing.
I was blessed to give all I could while she walked this earth, I had no regrets in my friendship with Mina and that is my added blessing of having had such a being, as a friend.
I had 35 years with Mina and for the rest of my life, will stay blessed in stories shared as I keep her alive in regaling laughs with all that cross my path in the rest of my journey on this earth.
She took her last journey alone but left me with the blessing of 2 sons James and Yomi, 2 extra sisters Alero and Toyin and another brother Seni.
She took her last journey alone but left me with the joy of keeping her alive in all I share of the experiences we had together as friends.
Thank you Mina, when I think of pure love that will be you.
On this note, I leave you with all that is pure, love!
(Part of an email to my friend Pauline days after Mina's demise, that ended up as an eulogy)
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