Baobab Tree, mostly found in Northern Ghana.

Baobab Tree, mostly found in Northern Ghana.
Credit, Vodafone Ghana.

Saturday, 18 June 2016

THE AWENNALA ATIIRIMBEY COPING MECHANISM


I have shared this with some of my friends verbally.  Always wanted to, as I have always done, share this with more of my friends because I see it helpful. This day presents that opportunity. Since death has visited my kin once again and painfully too,  I deem it fit to share this mechanism. For who knows what time he or she has left?
These are incontestable about death;
Death is inevitable.
Death is a necessary end.
Death is a whole mystery wrapped up in an enigma.
Death is unpredictable: it comes at its own time.
Death takes whoever: the rich,  the poor,  the employed, the unemployed, the destitute, the labourer, the boss, the servant, the young, the old etc...
Death therefore, respects not.
Death doesn't need any permission or invite. Annoyingly, the guest no one enjoys hosting.
Death is a shocker.
Holding that the aforementioned are facts, I therefore proposed this mechanism for at least a "better" reception of the passing on of whoever the person is to you.
In order to succeed in anything  you have to plan ahead. Death needs such planning and preparedness. It needs thought. Who shall live forever? Let me relate this to our everyday machines so you get it.  All motorcycles, cars and others have shock absorbers. The brains behind the motorbikes and others envisioned that, one was not only going to be riding on smooth surfaces but bumpy ones. The wisdom also is that, one needs balance. So when you are on a smooth road you are fine, when the road is bumpy or full of potholes one is still fine because the design has made that possible.  A computer will be very useless without softwares. One needs the Microsoft office tools to enable one do typing, create spreadsheets, power point etc. One needs softwares in the form of  antiviruses to protect the computer against viruses. One needs, downloaders, music player softwares and so on before one's computer can perform certain functions. Without them,  the computer will only be occupying space.
The human brain can also be made to install certain undesirable yet inevitable phenomena like death, betrayal etc. Such that when it occurs, one would be able to contain the shock and not collapse or breakdown totally. Ask yourself these questions and don't be scared, for it will surely visit you willy- nilly. What if my mom passes on or my dad,  or my sister or my brother or my uncle or my aunty or my friend or girlfriend or wife or husband or son or daughter? How will I take it? What if that person is the breadwinner? Or my only joy? Or the only person I know?  I know you are already uncomfortable reading these questions.They are difficult questions but you ought to psychologically prepare yourself. That's why you need the software installation in your mind to provide the shock absorbers for a" better" reception of the unpleasant news. With this,  others may think you are unperturbed when the unexpected happens . Some people usually see other people as always being happy. What they don't know is that,  some people are coping better than others. They may be having sleepless nights. It rains not on only one roof, our elders say. The impact may vary though. But all pain is pain. In football we use tactics,  excel uses formulas, in life one has to use strategies to survive. If nothing is planned for then anything is planned for. That's THE AWENNALA ATIIRIMBEY COPING MECHANISM . All will receive sad news but some will handle it better than others. Those people are not too strong but have prepared for it. They know there is absolutely nothing one can do about it. We all don't like it but we have to be strong during those times. I thought about this six years ago and have used it. That has been my medicine for the deaths I have seen. You can try it too.

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