THE GREATEST TRAGEDY
What could be the greatest tragedy in life? Is it the actual
death or there is more to this life This thought has kept me wondering for many
years and I recall how people mourn their departed relatives and friends on
funerals and I have been always question what is the greatest loss that death
has robbed us our dearest friends and relatives. During the speeches delivered
on the funeral many recall the good that person has done for them, even those
that experienced the evil hand of the departed will always try to spice their
words so that they don’t speak the bad side of the deceased because it is
considered a taboo to speak of any bad about the deceased. Some are mourning
their breadwinners and they can’t imagine life without that person and all they
see is doom.
We are supposed to celebrate the good that those departed
did to us, appreciate their works, compliment their efforts, and mourn them
with grief but could the greatest tragedy be the things that we will miss from
them or there is more to it. If only we could know what this person could have
done for you before he died, I believe you would cry more. Many people we have
buried died with our answers to the problems we facing in our lives, they died
with discoveries that were never shared, ideas that where never turned into a
reality. The greatest tragedy is when the husband died with that love that they
never showed their love, the parenting responsibility that was never showed to
the children, the love in the church that we never showed to our church mates,
the peace that we never preached. It will only strike us long before we die and
this is actually the greatest tragedy in life. The good deeds in life that died
in us whilst we are still alive is actually the greatest tragedy in life, the
love we never showed to others, the commitment to God we never did, the advice
we never gave those in need, the prayers we never made. From the above I think
you can see that the greatest tragedy is not death but it has already occurred
long before you breathe your last. I then remember someone asking me if we can
rule that we have moving graves and I replied that it is not that they have
died but these people have experienced the worst tragedy already in their life.
Death is now just putting an end to their tragedy.
Then the question is how then can we avoid this tragedy in
life and I am convinced that each one of us has something that they feel they should
do before death strikes. We all know the good that Christ mandated us to do and
why are we not doing it and if we let it die in us before we have done it we
would have experienced the worst tragedy in life because what we do or fail to
do shapes our destiny. Many people are experiencing the worst nightmares,
hypertension, wars, fights, sadness, grief, quarrels e.t.c, because of the good
that we let to die in us, the principles we never applied to solutions, the
love we never showed to others. Tragedy only strike when we fail to do what we
supposed to do and whilst many people fear death I think that you should beg to
differ where you fear to die withholding that which you supposed to have done.
Death comes when you not expecting so it is a wake-up call that we should never
cease to work, do good, show love, exercise responsibility, explore, speak your
mind, and do everything you supposed to do before the end of life.