Steemit Engagement Challenge / S19W6 - "Time Travel Challenge"

It's a pleasure to be here this beautiful evening to participate in this memorable engagement challenge. This happens to be my first time navigating through this very community and I hope I'm highly welcome. You can call me @missyleo your favorite girl.

If wishes were horses beggars would ride, but in this case I would say, "if there's was a time machine to go to the past, I would have love to go back to year 2020, it was a turbulent year for me I lost two most precious people in my life, which i am still carrying the guilt and scars of them in my life till now.

I will only talk about one of the person for now, while the other one will be a story for another day.

I lost my best pal to the cold hands of dead in February 2020, my late friend by name Divine died a very painful dead that up till this moment no one knows the reason behind her demised.

Me (on red)and my late friend (on blue)

She used to stay with me in the city, trying to make earns meet with the little stipends we were getting as a salary from one of the nursery school we were teaching, one day we decided to stop working because the proprietress of the school was owning us two months salary, and she wasn't even ready to pay us.

So I looked for another job while my friend decided to learn a thread, which was a very nice idea but what I never like was her decision of going back to the village to do that, with the reason that, she will be eating free food from the mother's house and she won't be spending much since she doesn't have enough money for that.

But as a friend I didn't agreed to that but since I couldn't help her and we couldn't helped ourselves, because we were still struggling to even feed, so we came to an understanding that she will only spend one year in the village learning the tailoring work and after she is free, she will come back to the city and by then she will get a better sewing job.

Image from my Facebook page

As God did it, she was able to secure a good place for the training with the help of her mother and everything went on smoothly, she stayed and completed her one year training and it was that February of 2020 that she wanted to do her graduation/freedom party, I mean that very week she has called me and informed me about it amd i even promised to go for the ceremony but something terrible happened😭.

The next morning I had a call from her younger brother telling me that Divine is dead, she just slept and couldn't wake up again, no sickness, no form of issues or any thing.

That was how I became blank totally, like I was out of life completely, I was taken somewhere for treatment, I stayed there till my friend was buried.

Image from my Facebook page

I couldn't see my friend corpse or even had a chance to bid her farewell because I was insane and wasn't ready to accept the truth that my childhood friend, my best pal is no longer in existence.

When I came out of my insanity, that was when I realized that I had lost so many things in one friend and the guilt of me not going for her burial is what I'm still living with up till now.

That's why I said if there was a time machine to go back to the past I would have gone back to year 2020, even if I won't be able to bring her back to life but at least give her the last respect that she deserves.

Thanks everyone for reading my post so patiently
I would love to invite my friends to take part in it
@goodybest @ngoenyi and @tripple-e

One Love 💕