The other Feelings

He was in church one Sunday
He was teaching Sunday School
The topic was love
He told the story of a lady who drank 
Izal because her boyfriend dumped 
her (This happened when he was in 
the university)
The Pastor's wife looked at him and 
said "What sort of stupid love is that? 
Who raised such a child?
It is bad parenting to raise a child 
whose self-esteem was so low that one 
heartbreak would make such consider 
death
He couldn't argue with her
She was the pastor's wife
But he had fallen in love so badly one 
time like that
When the girl left him he chased 
the taxi the lady boarded from Mobil 
bus stop to Agbowo (On the Lagos 
Ibadan expressway) at 7 in the 
morning
All he wanted her to do was listen to 
him and perhaps change her mind
He didn't remember that he was 
wearing a short knicker and singlet
He was standing by the balcony of 
his house thinking about her when 
he saw her walking down the street
He ran out of the house to catch up 
with her
They had been together for four 
years before she suddenly changed 
without any explanation
His heart was hurting badly
He just wanted to sit with her and 
talk to her and see her smiling again
He couldn't even think of a scenario 
when he would live a good life 
without her
She was the air he was breathing
When he caught up with her, he 
called her name
She didn't respond
He touched her on the shoulder
She snapped at him
"What did i do wrong? Why 
are you doing this to me? He asked
She didn't say a word
He was still speaking when she 
flagged down the taxi
As she was about to board he said 
"Please say something"
She said "As you can see, its over"
Then she got into the taxi and the 
taxi took off
The next thing he saw were 
his legs, picking themselves up 
and chasing the taxi
He had lost all sense of reason
By the time he got to Agbowo, 
she was long gone
He started to cry
Then he heard someone call 
his name
He turned around
It was her mother
She said "Oh my God, it was you 
that was chasing a taxi 
like a mad man
She worked at Dugbe and had to 
leave the house early in the morning 
to make it to the office on time
She must have seen them from afar
He was like a son to her
She said "Anybody that saw what 
you just did will assume you have 
lost your senses, go home and forget 
about my daughter"
He wiped his tears and walked back 
home
Each step heavier than the last
His heart felt numb, like somebody 
stabbed her in the heart from behind
He just wanted to die
He cried his eyes out
And yes, he understood why a 
heartbreak can make someone just 
want to die 
Three years later, the pastor's wife's 
son got dumped by his girlfriend and 
he took an overdose of piritin
He was saved from untimely death by 
divine intervention
The Pastor's wife came to understand 
that she had spoken too soon after then
She said she never had that kind of love 
and didn't know it was possible
When she told him what happened, he 
counseled her and told her love is a 
perturbing thing
The mother and son learned and healed 
from it
But the also learned a vital lesson
Love is more than mere words

PS: Love is the strongest force in the
world
The problem is usually the other feelings
For love absent of wisdom can so easily
become polluted
Love absent of wisdom accommodates 
many other feelings and also empowers 
them
Love without wisdom accommodates 
jealousy
Even though love is not jealous
Love without wisdom accommodates 
pride
Even though love is not proud
Love without wisdom accommodates 
anger
Even though love is not angry
Love without wisdom accommodates 
selfisness
Even though it is not selfish
The challenge is, love might come
to us when we are yet unwise
Such a love is naive and can easily
be taken advantage of or manipulated
by another leading to pathways of
regret
Seek wisdom first and then fall in love
In this process there is much safety