Condolement
My mami calls me around three hours back and gives me this devastating piece of news that has drained all the colour and festivity of Eid from my face and mind. Now i feel my Eid has just been ruined. One of my most favourite students ever from my 8 year teaching stint in Sunnydale, Elona Taqwa, has passed away today morning. I cannot believe this. May be this is only a nightmare, and i'll wake up any moment and see normal life again. Because this is just so shocking, just so unacceptable. Elona was my student in Sunnydale for a long time. She was brilliant in class, a topper in her batch. Elona used to love my son Ife, always asked about him whenever we met. A year and a half ago i brought Ife to school upon Elona's insistence, she so wanted to meet him. On that day many of my other students in school embraced Ife too. Last year July i gave Elona two of my favourite cousins to tutor, and ever since she has been teaching them. Even yesterday night my mami talked with her over the phone. And i've always been in regular touch with Elona ever since she took up teaching my cousins. My cousin brother in Class-8 and sister in Class-5 who were her students absolutely loved her. And she was very fond of them too.
Elona always had the nicest words to say about me whenever we met, be it in the classroom, or facebook or messenger, and she praised me even more to my cousins when i was not around. She was one of the most brilliant and best students ever to have studied in Sunnydale. Her results were impeccable, A* grades in everything. She was a supreme athlete, in all disciplines of sports. She had brought laurels and accolades for Sunnydale in athletics, track and field, basketball, volleyball, handball you name it. And above all, she was genuinely one of the nicest human-beings i have ever come across, as caring as anyone you'll ever meet. I don't know the circumstances that lead to her death, but i'll try to dig out more details to the best of my capacity. For one i know she was the fittest, healthiest, most cheerful, vibrant and jovial girl ever. So her passing away in this manner can hardly be accepted.
I am almost traumatized right now. This news has come as a big shock. One unnerving coincidence that is haunting me right now is, ten years ago, on the 21st of September 2009, my closest and dearest cousin brother Mashuk also passed away at the age of 22. He took his own life, a suicide that had culminated from a relationship that had terribly gone wrong, as a consequence he was plunged into depression, and eventually took his own life. The agonizing coincidence is, that was also on the day of the Eid-ul-Fitr, the Eid-ul-Fitr of 2009. And today on the Eid-ul-Fitr of 2019 i hear this. I don't fully know the circumstances behind Elona's death, but i've got a few insights from a few close people who were close to both of us, and i intend to find out more. Right now, i am in utter shock and disbelief. Eid doesn't seem Eid anymore. I am just shattered.
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