A Raptured Friendship

Rapture has always had a spiritual connotation and most people have also always tried to avoid hearing that word, especially all the meanings associated with it.

Interestingly, each and everyone does experience some form of rapture in their life in one way or the other. Or better still most people experience a ‘rapturous’ moment in their lives but have not thought of that experience as a rapture that took place. Probably because there were no thunder, lightening, magical or magnificent events surrounding those experience.

Right from our childhood to our adulthood, some things that we hold dear or special or profound are usually taken away from us.

Do you remember the neighbourhood where you grew up and with so many other kids that it was fun throughout but that fun had to cease because daddy got a new job and so your family moved away? Do you remember that school where you started your studies at and made so many friends and played a lot after school that it took you 1 hour to get home even though your house is just 15 mins away from the school but had to move to another school because your parents could not afford to pay the school fees anymore?

Oh! How about that church you used to follow your friends to every Sunday but had to stop going because Daddy didn’t like the church? And those friends who used to visit you often at home and you had so much fun until one of them broke the family glass and the visit and fun ended? Hope you are still remembering ryt? That lovely parent who always gave you the best in life even though they weren’t earning a fortune but are no more and not dead too?..quite complicated!

Well for me, I think a ‘good friendship’ has been raptured away from me. And only God knows to where! I don think it was raptured just recently but long ago and since I was so busy making the ‘friendship’ glorious, I became oblivious to the fact that it has been raptured and didn’t exist. What a pity! Guez I had been living in the shadow of this raptured friendship and kept deceiving myself that it existed and was good and that I was loved Smh!

But hey! Have you ever thought of where ‘raptured’ people go? Spiritually, I believe they go to the Big Man up there and its kuul ryt? How about the earthly rapture that takes place in our lives from our childhood to adulthood? Our neighbourhood friends, schoolmates, church mates, etc who are raptured from us due to one reason or the other? Where do they go to?

Is it even worth knowing? Probably not because as usual, life still goes on for you and the essential thing you do is to embrace life and make the best outta it… I hear when life throws at you lemons, you should make a lemonade ryt? Well, when something is raptured from your life, what do you do?...a Replace innit?…Cheers!