Thread by @GbengaWemimo

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 7am in the morning
All i wanted her to do was listen to me 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

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