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Edder
Student @ University of Abuja
Student @ University of Abuja
THINGS FALL APART
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Things rarely fall apart the way we imagine.</p><p style="text-align: justify; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: justify; ">There is no warning bell. No particular morning when the world decides to become unfamiliar.</p><p style="text-align: justify; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: justify; ">Sometimes, it begins with little things.</p><p style="text-align: justify; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: justify; ">A conversation that no longer feels the same.</p><p style="text-align: justify; ">A friendship where you start measuring your words.</p><p style="text-align: justify; ">A home that still has the same walls, but somehow no longer feels like home.</p><p style="text-align: justify; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: justify; ">You notice it, but you don't say anything.</p><p style="text-align: justify; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: justify; ">Perhaps because admitting that something is changing makes it real.</p><p style="text-align: justify; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: justify; ">So you keep going. You reply to the messages. You show up. You laugh when you're supposed to. You convince yourself that people grow, seasons change, and everything will eventually find its way back.</p><p style="text-align: justify; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: justify; ">But not everything does.</p><p style="text-align: justify; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: justify; ">Chinua Achebe once wrote, “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.”</p><p style="text-align: justify; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: justify; ">Maybe the centre isn't always a person.</p><p style="text-align: justify; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: justify; ">Sometimes, it is a belief.</p><p style="text-align: justify; ">A dream.</p><p style="text-align: justify; ">A version of yourself you spent years becoming.</p><p style="text-align: justify; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: justify; ">And when it finally gives way, you don't always know what you've lost.</p><p style="text-align: justify; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: justify; ">You only know that something that once held everything together doesn't anymore.</p><p style="text-align: justify; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: justify; ">And perhaps that is what hurts the most about things falling apart.</p><p style="text-align: justify; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: justify; ">You don't only mourn what is gone.</p><p style="text-align: justify; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: justify; ">You mourn the person you were when it was still whole.</p><p style="text-align: justify; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: justify; ">The conversations you didn't know would be the last.</p><p style="text-align: justify; ">The ordinary days you would later wish you could return to.</p><p style="text-align: justify; ">The people you thought would always be there, until “always” quietly became “once.”</p><p style="text-align: justify; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: justify; ">And life doesn't stop to let you grieve.</p><p style="text-align: justify; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: justify; ">Morning still comes. People still ask how you are. You still have places to be.</p><p style="text-align: justify; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: justify; ">So you learn to carry what broke.</p><p style="text-align: justify; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: justify; ">Not because it stopped hurting, but because there was no other way to keep living.</p><p style="text-align: justify; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: justify; ">Maybe some things fall apart because they were never meant to stay.</p><p style="text-align: justify; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: justify; ">And maybe some things fall apart simply because, no matter how carefully we hold them, we are still human, and some things were never ours to keep.</p>
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