The Reason To Love.

CHAPTER FOUR. BURIAL.

No matter how strong you are something must make people moan over you someday.

The death of Mr Kuru made Zina and her family to realise that there is only but a thin line between life and death.

The neighborhoods and Friends from far and near gathered to condole and show their sympathy to the family and to console them during this moaning time.

People react to grief in different ways, but it’s important to let yourself feel all of your feelings.

There’s no single right way to grieve, no set amount of time after which you can automatically expect to feel better, no stages or steps to check off a list. This in itself can be difficult to accept.

Sadness is common after the loss of a parent, but it’s also normal for other feelings to take over. You may not feel sad, and that’s OK, too. Perhaps you only feel numb, or relieved they’re no longer in pain.

Grief opens the gate to a flood of complicated, often conflicting emotions. Your relationship with your parent might have had plenty of challenges, but it still represented an important key to your identity.

They created you, or adopted and chose to raise you, and became your first anchor in the world.

After such a significant loss, it’s only natural to struggle or experience difficulties coming to terms with your distress.

You might experience:

anger or frustration

guilt, perhaps for not contacting them frequently or not being present for their death

shock and emotional numbness

confusion, disbelief, or a sense of unreality

hopelessness or despair

physical pain

mental health symptoms, including depression or thoughts of suicide

relief that they’re no longer in pain

Zina ran to her room crying till she slept off hoping she will wake to a new reality.

Her elder ones were receiving visitors and at certain times they will cry, roll on the floor and sympathisers will drag them up. The visitors at some point crake jokes and assured them they will survive. They will discuss other people's cases and make references to make them realise their's was better.

During the burial their family. friends, colleagues etc all came from far and near for the burial. he was buried properly but unresponsive questions keep flauting Zina's head. How will I survive from now on without my father?

Who will see me through school?

Will I ever return back to school?

God why did you allow this happened to me?

After all this unattended questions, she wish she was having a dream which she will latter get awoke to reality.

Life of a fatherless child exposes the child to difficulties and enemies within.