TRIBUTE

I've been gathering my thoughts around Munachi Obiekwe's passing. Not that I knew him in person vice versa. But I watched him for the first time years back in across the border where he played a distinctive role which made me warm up to him so much beside his good looks and acting prowess. The fact that someone that famous in Nigeria died while tackling a serious health problem all by himself rather than seek assistance shows how wicked and biased the world we live in is. I am certain Muna didn't want to be judged or assaulted by social media, the more reason he preferred suffering in silence, also because he feared becoming a subject of all manner of gossips and unhealthy scrutiny after all he's a celebrity. Why can't people help without 'gisting' about it? Why is the world so selfish to reach out and care for others. I believe Muna's health could have been managed if he had real friends who genuinely cared. Even if those friends were not financially capable, they would have stood in the gap for him, adviced him, encouraged him raised the funds Muna needed and still be true to him without taking advantage of his status to make money through sending updates to bloggers...  social media and generally making him a subject of ridicule.  I believe there are still some good people out there, we all can't be bad now haba. Be a true friend, be a beacon of light, reach out to people not just with money but your time, encouraging words, your positive energy. And to any one suffering out there, quit suffering in silence, ask, seek, knock for help if you need it. If you don't ask you will not receive. We all need each other. No man is an island. Now that Muna is gone, he's only a memory in our minds. Will you rather live the rest of your life regretting a help not rendered when you're capable of doing it?
 May  the souls of our dear ones who suffered in silence continue to rest in perfect peace.