You Are Alive For A Reason.

#Day2 of the 14 days Glo-Cal Lineage Writing challenge.

Title: You Are Alive For A Reason.

Lara is an intelligent single lady and an orphan who lives in Johannesburg.

During the lockdown, my neighbour lara tried to commit suicide.

Mark visited to check if she was in to hand over the letter he received three days ago on her behalf. He has been to lara’s door step nine times since he received the letter, three times in a day, morning, afternoon and evening.

This is unusual, for four days now I have not seen lara, should I go and report to the police that lara is missing? Mark thought.

What if she came in and slept off, so he looked through her window surprisingly to see an empty container with its cover about 1 meters away, he turned to look the opposite and saw the lifeless body of lara on the floor.

Mark shouted as he decided to break into her room, climbed the window and made his way through, he continued to shout lara, lara but Lara made no move.

He looked around her room and he saw a cup that is half filled, smelled the cup as his hands was shaking to confirm if it was water.

He sprinkled on lara’s face then she eventually made a move but was totally exhausted. About thirty seconds later, mark’s wife was at lara’s door step. She could hear her husband shouting lara, Lara, confused as the door was still locked and she did not know what was going on.

Mark quickly reached to lara’s door and opened for his wife to come in. Honey, let’s take her to the hospital, she needs help, they had to take lara to the hospital.

Marks wife still confused now summoned courage to ask her husband at the hospital and demanded to know what was going on. All this while she has been speechless, thinking that her husband was having an affair with lara before she fainted. How am I sure she truly fainted. Did she fake it with my husband?

Apparently she fainted; she tried to take her life and now waiting for the last minute to give up the ghost. Mark explained to his wife, I took a letter that has been in my possession since three days ago to her only to see her on the floor. Please go back home, check her room for the letter either in her room or outside her room, I can’t remember where I left the letter.

Marks wife later found the letter by lara’s window.

She opened the letter and found out that it was an appointment letter. A job she attended interview for one year ago. Covid-19 took the life of the person in the same position and the company needed a quick replacement and now she is in the hospital fighting for her survival.

Lessons:

Life may be tough but we must be strong.

No doubt, this year have been the toughest so far and may have been glorious in some ways.

I am alive to fulfil my purpose on earth and I hope you know that you are alive for a reason.

We are alive despite all that has been happening around the world for a reason.

Join us to enjoy stories that will keep you strong in life.

Have a great day.

Dr. Onyeka Franklin Ochonogor