Love Chronicles! Pt 1

A couple of years back, while in school as an undergraduate, I found love when I wasn’t even seeing it. Love in it’s Truest meaning.
A little back story.👇🏾

Love is such a sweet intense feeling of deep affection for someone. The love was so pure with all shades of awesomeness. There and then, I kept asking myself what good I had done to deserve such a sweet man in my life at that time of my life.
God really loves me to give me such a sweet human when I needed someone to stand my me the most.

I met Oluwafemi Daniel Ojo, an amazing angel just shortly after I lost the amazing and caring Dad God blessed me with. He was such a sweet replacement because he played a fatherly role in my life almost all through out our divine meeting.

Friendship mixed with intense love has such a different intensity and trust me, it’s worth experiencing with the right person.
When I met him, my life changed, I saw life from another perspective, I saw that there’s more to life than we can ever think or imagine.

I must say, building the right kind of relationship and friendship starts with our heart and openness. You can’t give love or true friendship from a closed heart, but from the place of love and openness. Being a young girl who just lost her Dad, I lost my openness and locked my heart to so many things. I became a shadow of myself which also reflected in my academics because I couldn’t concentrate. All I could ever think of was God why my Dad.

Meeting Femi helped my healing process in moving on from the shadows of my Dad’s death and accepting that that was God’s divine way. The earlier I accepted the better for me. Believe me, if you keep dwelling in your past, you are definitely going no where. You’re denying yourself of the good things God is preparing for you.

You in this category? Please read these blog posts;

Struggling with the past? Read here

Overcoming Depression; Read here

Nothing lasts forever; Read here

We had our challenges, there’s no relationship without challenges but the ability to pull through with the challenges kept us going and even stronger that ever. People see us and admire what we both shared. If you have a pure and sincere heart towards people and things you will experience God in everything you do and you will know that God sees and knows everything that happens to us. He is a rewarder of those that diligently seek Him.

Fast forward to my 300level days, Femi and I practically go everywhere together, though we aren’t in the same department but then you find us together expect wherever we’ve got lectures. Our families got to know about us in 300l and believe me, it was the best feeling ever.

To know Femi is to Know God and to love God. He was such a great lover of God and a great vessel for God. He was indeed my angel, my guardian angel. Through him I became closer to God, through his impact I discovered my purpose and my passion. My academic performance was way better by 90% and I kid you not. We read together, prayed together, several night classes, sky way prayers, mountain prayers with our course forms, driving lessons with his car and all. We had so many sweet memories I can’t forget. 🙂

Some weeks to our final exams in 400 level second semester, this gentleman travel to Lagos to do some certain things and some running arounds for his elder brother which we were even supposed to go together but then I declined because final exams were fast approaching and I needed to prepare adequately. Unfortunately he traveled alone.

About a week after he traveled, he was supposed to return back to school, about three weeks to our final exams, precisely on the 31st of May 2016, at about 7pm, I got a call from a friend whom was our friend asking me about Femi’s whereabouts and asking me to come to Tipper Garage (a bus stop in Ilorin along University of Ilorin road) I was like, he traveled to Lagos over the weekend but he’s returning back to school today because we spoke almost throughout the day and I knew when he left Lagos for Ilorin.

On getting to the bus stop with my friend that night, I met crowd, I saw many students, a few lecturers, people crying and I was like what happened? I over heard someone’s conversation as they were dragging me to come “so where the body con dey” meaning “where is the body”. I was told he had a fatal accident on Lagos-Ibadan express way with his car while coming. But he was already receiving treatment at UCH Ibadan. I shouted and screamed my life out. I was told I passed out before I knew what was happening my phones were collected from me, I couldn’t even understand what people were saying around me all I knew was I wanted to go see him in the hospital.

The friend who called me took me to her house that night, my eyes were wide opened, I didn’t close my eye lid all through. I got a call from my Mom the next morning saying she was already on her way to Ilorin to come pick me to go see Femi in the hospital. My friend went to my hostel to go pack a few things for me. My Mom and siblings arrived Ilorin, seeing my Mom and siblings with swollen eyes and heavy eyes, I knew something was wrong. In the car, I kept asking Mom if Femi was responding to treatment and all. They all kept saying yes to to glory of God.

My Mom got the news that night and was devastated. My Mom and siblings went to UCH that night to confirm and check if it was Femi, and was later told he had been referred to Adeoyo hospital. He’s corpse was taken to Adeoyo Morgue. I must tell you, it was a very bitter experience.

As a lover gurl that I was, how did I take it?

God is such an unquestionable God, who are we to question Him.

To be continued!!!

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Enjoy the rest of your week.

Dammie O.🤎