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Do you have a death wish?

Does it thrill you to brush shoulders with death?


For the past couple of weeks, I've been on a posting to my teaching hospital complex in a different town - Ilesha and oh boy! There's this universality to how they drive here; like they're having a Colorado party. The rate they have fatal road traffic accidents is through the roof and I totally get it. Lagos drivers are silly and impatient but these guys literally have no reason to tumble through town the way they do.


So I'm here on a rant about reckless driving. What's the point of it? To meet Jesus early, or the need to check if your room in Abraham's mansion is getting dusty? 


Frankly, I understand that from time to time, there's an urge to jump into the abyss and escape from the hell on earth, as we quite often term it. It however baffles me that some of you take active steps into catching a glimpse into Hades. Do you crave death that much or what's the hurry, really?



Road traffic accidents are a huge mess, probably the number one cause of death amongst young people who are well known to be the high ranking reckless drivers. 

There's this concept I struggle to grasp- drunk driving. It's bad enough that everything is distorted when you're drunk, but then you choose to drive in that state? C'mon, get a better way to die. 



Brain matter splashed on tarred road is not a pretty sight; might be artistic and evoke emotions of abiyamo, but it had better not be your brain matter adding colour to the otherwise drab tar.


Why are you in such a hurry? Why are you so selfish? Do you badly want to see if Mary Magdalene got a mansion from Jesus too? Maybe it's your grandpa that had a baptism at 92 after marrying 15 wives you want to know if he really made it into heaven? Or are you in a rush to see if Dante was right about hell? You'd like to feel it on your skin yourself?



Slow down, you'd die soon. For now, chill.




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