By Costly Oma.
My Death Encounter – Part 2.
~~ Within The Environs ~~
Now, it is almost dawn and the day was becoming active again. I feel almost anew but the encounter I had was still playing in my head and somehow, I think that I can still smell that terrible smell around as I think I can still feel it deep down my throat. I had no intentions to say anything about the night to any member of my family.
At the time, I live in a home of three members. Me, my mother and my aunt. On that morning, I said to myself, I’m not going anywhere today, I’ll stay at home all through.
While I was saying that to myself, it struck my mind that I even have some dirty clothes, and I said, I will take today to wash my clothes.
It is morning time now and the day’s activities have kicked in fully. I got up from bed, did some push-ups and squats as I like working out sometimes, grabbed my toothbrush, discharged some toothpaste on it, entered the bathroom, pasted and bathed.
I came out of the bathroom, cleaned and creamed my body, put on some house clothes and start arranging the dirty clothes I would want to wash for the day. After picking the clothes out from the basket, I sat back down feeling unusual as it was obvious that it took me longer to go from exercising to finish bathing.
I usually do not leave my room in the morning before I take bath, Meaning I usually have my bath in the morning before leaving my room, all things being equal and this day wasn’t an exception.
I got back up after sitting for a while, trying to tidy the room as in keeping things in order before stepping out of the room. Now I think I was set to leave the room with my dirty clothes as I’ve decided to do the washing outside the room and outside the house.
I opened the door of the room and stepped out of the room. I observed that no member of the house is up yet. It was on a Thursday, not that they have compulsory activities that do take them out of bed in the mornings, but they usually use to be up early. Clearly, this day wasn’t one of those days.
I walked towards one of the back exits of the house and reached out to the door and opened it. As I was about stepping out, I got this prompting reminding me that I said I wasn’t going to leave the house today and unconsciously like in response, I said out loud to my hearing, I not leaving these environs I was going to stay within the compound.
It didn’t really strike me as something out of the ordinary since I’ve always been someone who speaks to myself sometimes as my faith demands, more or less like a lifestyle.
I stepped out and put all the things I needed for the washing together and started washing. While I was washing, I heard one of the doors of the house open and it was my mother’s door. She is up and has stepped out of her room. After a while, she stepped out of the house, towards where I was washing and we greeted.
She needed to buy something that is not in the house and she asked me if I can go and get it for her as it’s obvious that I would not be going to work today. What she wanted was something I can get just down the road so it is still within the environs I said to myself. I told her I’ll go get, let me finish washing and I’ll go get it for you.
While I was just rounding up my washing, my phone rang and it was one of my nephews. He is rounding up from a higher institution and needed some money to aid in his clearance process and he needed my assistance to provide him with the money.
He is my senior, I respect him, I’m respectful and I cannot ask him to come to the house or meet me anywhere to get the money. I had some cash that can cover the amount he asked so I intend to give him cash. I didn’t want to touch the money in the bank for some reason. At this point, I had no choice but to locate him wherever he is and hand him the money. Me and this my respectful life, I said to myself. Now I would have to leave the house as against what I initially intended.
I inquired where he was and it was a distance of about 8 kilometres from where I was. I told him I’m going to meet him there but he would have to give me some time and he said he would be waiting.
I rounded up the washing and got myself tidied up to hit the road with the money he wanted in my pocket. I went to my mother and asked her to give me the money for what she wanted to buy, that I’m going out and would get it on my way back. I told her I’ll not be gone for long, that I just wanted to see someone in a second and start heading back. She gave me the money and I left the house.
~~ To Be Continued ~~
>>>> My Death-Feelings Part 1.
>>>> My Death-Feelings Part 2.
>>>> My Death-Feelings Part 3.
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