12/05/2026
I still can’t get over the de@th of this my friend….Mathew
He d!ed two years ago and I just found out few days ago....this is so he@rt bre@king
Recently, I made up my mind to start posting true life stories about my life.
Especially because I realized that if I don’t do it now,
there may never be a better time.
I even posted last week that I had decided to start revealing some personal things about my life...
and that some friends and relatives might be featured in my stories.
I told them in case they see my post, they shouldn't take it too hard,
but to simply laugh it off
My reason was, life is short,
And somehow,
the very next post I made ended up proving that...
I posted an old group photo I took with my friends years ago during our MAPOLY days,
not knowing that one of us in that picture had already d!ed long ago.
It was the comment section that made me find out.
At first, I didn’t believe it.
Immediately, I called someone who confirmed that it was true...
Omo, e weak me... This life sha
So Matthew is truly gone?
This was one of the brilliant people on campus back then.
A lot of us were tutored by Matthew.
He was a very bright and promising boy.
Even after school,
because of how intelligent he was,
he secured a job almost immediately.
He got married...and even had a child.
Life was going well for him.
Not knowing that just two years after his wedding,
he was going to d!e.
And so it happened that Matthew d!ed after a brief illness.
Meanwhile, while all this was happening...
only a few people knew about it.
Even when he d!ed...
most of his friends didn’t know.
Am sure many who knew him are just finding out through this post.
I met Matthew back then in Mapoly as a fresher
when I was having serious difficulties with Accounting.
I did science
in secondary school
So studying Accounting at the tertiary institution was a serious struggle for me.
It was like passing a Carmel through the eye of a needle for me.
But Matthew was my bailout....
we became friends and he started tutoring me.
Matthew was a born teacher.
No matter how difficult the course was,
Matthew had a way of simplifying everything until you understood it perfectly.
In fact, he was so good that many clubs in MAPOLY started inviting him to come and lecture students.
I can categorically say that if not for Matthew, I probably would have carried over Accounting.
The foundation he gave me in that course was what later made Accounting easier for me.
And now hearing that such a person is gone still feels unreal.
This only comfirm to my initial statement about life was short..
Nobody knows when he or she will go..
No matter what you have…..or who you are.
Once it is your time to go,
you will go.
And the only
thing people will truly remember you for is the impact you made before you kpai.
This life is too unreal….iswear
The only real thing is the lives you touch before you go.
Because that is the only thing that will speak for you when you are gone.
The best food you ate while you were alive cannot talk....when you are gone
Neither the finest mansion you built...
Only the people whose lives you impacted will truly speak about what you did while you were here....
They will only speak about how
your existence on this earth personally changed their lives.
That is the real meaning of life….
Any other thing we do here on earth
is just like icing on the cake…it’s all going to pass away soon.
OnuofEgba
