THE STORY OF FATE

MUOGBO MICHAEL I.: SS/PP/2368

ADA AND HER FATE

In the town of umunadi, there is very beautiful girl. Her name is Ada. Ada is the only daughter of her parents. When she came of age to get married, her parents married her out to a very healthy, God-fearing and kind man named Emeka. She and her husband lived together happily as a blessed couple, but they don’t have any child. Emeka’s parents threatened to marry another woman for Emeka if Ada cannot give them a grandchild. Disregarding his parent’s threat to his wife, Emeka being a loving and caring husband, comforts his wife and tells her that he is forever hers, for better for worse.

Not quite long, Ada conceived and bore a child for her husband Emeka. It was a son, and the first grandson of Emaka’s parents since Emeka is the first child of his parents. They named the son after his grandfather, Omenya. With Omenya, it seemed like a long tragedy of not having a child and a grandchild is ended for the couple and their parents. Omenya grew up as an honest and a respectful child, but at his age of twelve, tragedy struck again when Omenya fell sick and died. It was a great and painful loss for both the family of Emeka and Ada’s maiden family, and especially for the couples. In grief for her lost son, Ada carried her dead son to her neighbours, asking for a medicine for revival so that she can bring him back to life. People thought she lost her mind.

Ada noted of a Prophet, and took her son to him. She asked the prophet to revive her son. The prophet tried to console Ada and told her that he would revive her son if she would be able to bring him a handful of sand from a family compound where nobody has died before. Ada went round the neighbourhood and could not find such a compound. This was Ada’s deepest grief. Ada went back and told the prophet that she could not find a family compound where nobody has died before. The prophet spoke to her, “the life of mortals in this world is troubled and brief and combined with pain. For there are no means by which those that have been born can avoid dying. With these words of the prophet, Ada had no option but to accept her fate and burry her dead son.