I wake up with my head filled up with so many ideas for this charity we want to work on....I write, I make calls, I remember Kunbi and our discussion...I call Bolu...she says call Kunbi and I say that's true, i'll call her. I try to call Kunbi but I tot"later" or when I'm ready to register it i'll call her to put me thru cos I know that call won't be a 1minute thing as we have alot of pending gist...Henrys wedding, Ugonna, Nhs, the latest guy in my life etc......A week and i mean one week after, i go to church, bb dies as usual(very rubbish device), having fun with friends...stayed in church till late...got a text from twinny on my voda about this plane crash in Nigeria that killed people, my heart skipped and I just said " Gosh twinny, thats so sad mehn... I really worry for Nigeria" I come home charge my fone...see all the updates and all i could do was pray...i made a conscious effort not to update about the crash at all cos it was just too sad...I tried to look away. Then i get a bbm from my school son saying ' Mama I need a favour, dont panic o but did you hear about the plane crash? the one in Lagos' I replied saying 'yes dear' he goes on to say 'don't panic o. But i hear one of your friends was on it and her sister is in loughbotough. Is it true?' . At this time i had two of my friends with me and I just kept on telling them that i dunno what this boy is talking about cos i cannot think, i cannot cannot think of anyone that her sister is in loughborough that would have been on that plane....so i took the courage and asked 'tel me who? PING! PING!PING! my fone has been off, just turned it on' and lo and behold the biggest blow i have ever received came (at this time my friends had gone, i made sure they left before i opend his message) he replied saying "I hear Kunbi, don't know if its true' so i replied saying ' i don;t think its true but let me ping her and see' at that point believe you me my heart STOPPED! It stopped but I was still alive....So i called Kunbi but couldnt get thru so i calmed down then i called Jumoke and I could tell it was true from the tone..we had a convo for like a minute or two-i honestly cannot remember a thing from our convo. The rest is history.........
KUNBI IRENE ADEBIYI was my friend regardless of all the differences that we had, infact we fought more than anyone in loughborough but i still loved her..in another fact,i was always the one fighting with myself in the matter o...as the pretty young lady didnt even know half the time that i was fighting with her.lol.serious issue of a big baby.....My first fight with Kunbi was really silly and i cannot say most of the reasons and the day i can never forget was the day ugonna tricked us and left her in my room for us to settle our differences and we were just talking like husband and wife....i'll say things like ' but i text u and u didnt reply, ehn that shows u dont care now and i am not important abi' and she'll say things like ' who told you? u dont even know why'. Hmmmmmm kunbebe i knw u're reading this now and saying 'mamz it is not that type of thing i love u too o' but Kunbi it hurts, it hurts so deep, it hurts deeper than anything. You know now, you knw when i lost sister and how i was, u were even hurt too cos you spoke with her a couple of times but this hurt is not that type of hurt kunbi, this hurt is just i-cannot-believe-i-will-get-past-this-hurt kind of hurt and i dunno whats hurting me more if its that i never really expressed how much u meant enuf or its that u're actually gone like u're gone? asin kunbz i cant stop thinking about the flight...how u must have felt, if the pilot made an announcemnt, or if the plane shook or if the mask dropped down, if u panicked, if u tried to calm the person next to u down, if u just simply shut ur eyes and talked to God. Like i wish i could have seen all this happen so i could save you but i couldnt, i didnt, i couldnt have.Only God could have. I am so pained that our country Nigeria that you love so much and hoped to lead one day let u down like this Kunbi, I am so pained that the greed of humanity and the insensitivity of mankind can do this to you Kunbi. I am sorry and i apologise on behalf of the whole nation. I won;t be like them i will be different i will think about my neighbour in everything i do, i will be my brothers keeper and in all i do i will always put God first. i'm sure u are safe now anyway, we all will go someday too and u're lucky u dont have to deal with loosing each of us...we will all meet again kunbz...say hello to sister for me and Ugonnas dad...i love you and i miss you too...your last words to me when i kept telling u that u lived in 10 and me 8 and this ur forgetting memory is a special case...:
- Mams! It's no 10 oh, dunno how I 4got! Aaaaw thAts nice, nd Ur helping ppl Wich u like doin. Proud of u, so do u go from home nd wen nxt r u in Lagos? Hows MB btw? Yes am in Lagos oh, NYSC has even started. Yes am planning to go for the wedding BGG. Ugonna nd I r good, thank GOD:) how bou u? Ne new bobo or potential?
and my last words to you while you lived were:
- Aww that's nice make sure you wear nice make up o! Like ur bday....Yeah I go from home.....I'll come to xmas but not for long at all just 4days cos of work...@potential bobo yes there is one o! Femi and i'm weak cos I wasnt expecting another yoruba boy...lol...not confirmed yet but so far he might be the next..been on a couple of dates and so on...I've left it completely with God to take total control and I told him to pray too..My prayer life is better now and I'm becoming a better christian day by day too and I love my new church too.....I'll post dress today
So my dearest, thats it...I miss u deeply and truly and i thank God for bringing u into my life, you were so tender,sweet and fair. God bless u till we meet again.
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p.s: that femi guy didnt work o! So please pray for me from there o...lol..ur sister is really tired of all these boboz...we dunno who is lying or saying the truth again.lol....Plus we are now on that charity ish FULL FORCE! Our first fundraiser is on the 13th July and we will be remembering u. God heal our hearts Kunbz especially ur family and Ugonna (I really dunno how he is coping especiallly after his dad, but GOD has to do it. He is not a man that He should lie. He gat this...we will be fine) love u girlfriendxxx
Awwww.Mama she is in a better place xx
ReplyDeleteHey mia. I am so sorry,i remember her so well. I remember also speaking with her when u were staying at her place. She is in a better place. Maro x
ReplyDeleteI don't know why I keep googling KIA '
ReplyDeletelike every year.
I never met her see ehn, I saw her obituary in Punch I think and my mom and I were like no, not this beautiful young woman.
Fast forward to about two months later, I was at a friends house and I saw a book of tributes to Kunbi and I wept for like two hours straight. I was incosolable. She was so easy to love and I couldn't believe such an amazing young woman with so much love for God could die like that!
Look, Kunbi blessed me! Even in her death, she blessed me.I'm glad to have "met" her. She pushed me to love God and people more.
God bless you kunbi for being alive and loving Him and living that love out.
You can read my reference to her death on my blog here: http://angiethegirlnextdoor.blogspot.com.ng/2016/07/crybaby.html
Keep making Jesus smile Kunbi...