Imagine reading this sort of news about a person I read from a couple of days ago: “Former NBA Publicity Secretary Candidate, Ogaga Emoghwanre Is Dead” (TheNigeriaLawyer: 10 August 2022)!
Ernesto Sabato asked, “Was this life nothing more than a sequence of anonymous screams in a desert of indifferent stars? Perhaps it’s in answer, that Thomas Nagel wrote, “Life may be not only meaningless but absurd”. On his part, said Leo Tolstoy said, “The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless”.
If my man, OGAGA EMOGHWANRE ESQ, Publicity Secretary, NBA Benin Branch, who on 16 July 2022, nearly won the election to the office of NBA National Publicity Secretary, is the one now being reported to have “collapsed yesterday August 09, 2022 and was taken to the hospital… but reportedly gave up the ghost a few hours ago”, then both Leo Tolstoy and Thomas Nagel were right; life is unfortunately meaningless!
If it’s true that yesterday, August 09, 2022, was the last I would hear, see and read “FROM THE DESK OF OGAGA EMOGHWANRE ESQ”, then all the life we pretend to live is vanity!!
If our meeting at the *Shrine Bar and Lounge, Asaba, Delta State, Nigeria, on July 03, 2022, during the NBA-SLP Annual General Conference 2022, was now to be the last I would set my eyes on the ever-lively, ever-bubbling, ever-elegant, and ever-energetic OGAGA EMOGHWANRE ESQ, then, then our mission and sojourn here on earth are mere vain.
But, if you, my man OGAGA EMOGHWANRE ESQ are truly departed, then I am speechless 😶😭 😢. 😭😔
But God why!
God, in times like this, we may be right to raise you questions to answer. Questions such as is found in Psalm 10:1-4: “O Lord, why do you stand so far away? Why did you hide when [my man OGAGA EMOGHWANRE ESQ] was in trouble; when he collapsed and was taken to an ICU?”
But a voice within me keeps warning me thus: “Quit questioning God and start trusting Him!” Besides, I remember your words (1) Isaiah 55:8-9: “My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts. And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine” and (2) 1 Corinthians 2:16: “Who can know the Lord’s thoughts? Who knows enough to teach him?”
I give up, dear God. Do with us, whatever you will. Like A.W. Tozer, In total submission I declare, I am Thy servant to do Thy will, and I choose it above all things on Earth or in Heaven.
Yours faithfully,
Sylvester Udemezue (Udems)
mrudems@yahoo.com.
(10 August 2022)