I was sitting in a bus going to the office this morning when a lady got a call she picked it and was smiling as she was exchanging greetings with the person that called her. Suddenly she shouted and slumped on the body of the lady sitting next to her. We were confused! Was it an epileptic attack a man at the back asked, no, if it was she’ll be shaking another replied.

What Happened?

I picked the phone and saw that the person that called was still saying hello hello. I now asked her who she was and what she told the lady that made her to slump. The lady at the other end of the phone said she was related to the lady in the bus that they were cousins and that she called her to tell her that her elder brother was involved in a car accident on his way to the village and that the accident took his life. Hmmm! I was so shocked and told the lady if anything should happen to the lady with us in the bus that she should hold herself responsible for that. Is it this type of breaking news that you tell someone over the phone?

How It Used To Be Done

During the good old days, you don’t break the news of the death of somebody to his or her relatives just like that. You look for friends of that person, you come together and even take the person to where the person will feel relaxed, then all sorts of idioms, parables and stories are told about life in general are said before the news is broken. Though the news still comes as a shock the person at least has friends and well-wishers around to console the person. Now all things have change, a woman sees the friends husband driving on his way somewhere with a woman that is not the wife on the passenger’s seat, next thing she calls her friend and tells her her husband is at it again, that she saw a woman in the car with him and it looks like he is taking her to a hotel. Lol. She may not know the passenger is a colleague he saw on his way to the office and decides to give her a lift to the office. Often times things are over exaggerated on the phone and the receiver is put in a panic situation for no good reason.

What Finally Happened?

We were able to revive the woman who was still in shock and kept repeating the brothers’ name and saying why me why me? The bus driver was not even paying attention, at some point he even told us to keep our voices down because we were distracting him and not allowing him to concentrate. The conductor of the bus was busy calling out locations to where we were heading to in anticipation of getting more passengers, he was also telling us to shift and sit properly so that passengers coming in can find seats to sit on. The conductor at some point said “the man has gone he has gone, no more worry in life, it is us that are still alive that will continue to worry” after making that statement he continued calling out for more passengers. I was kinda frozen when he said that and continued what he was doing without a sign of sympathy on his face. It made me to wonder too about what he said, it did make sense, the man has nothing to worry about again, but we that are alive will continue to worry until the day we also go to the land to the dead, but does it mean because we don’t want to worry so we should wish to go? I think I prefer staying alive and continue to worry. Lol.

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3rd Fastest Fingers Contest – 1st Prize Wins 1 Steem

Steemians, here here, if you're reading this post then count yourself to be among the lucky few. If your Reputation is between 27 and 49 then this contest is for you. I'll be giving away 1 Steem to the 1st prize winner for the fastest person to comment, upvote, resteem and follow me if you haven’t started following me but you have to do that 15 minutes after this post goes online today. Please remember the 15 minutes rule and remember to comment first because that is what i'll be using as a bench mark to measure who wins.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE IN THE CONTEST

Follow these steps to win the contest:

1. Take action 15 minutes after the post goes online.

2. Comment, resteem and upvote my post tomorrow

That is all, I'll be picking the positions based on the comment entries but you've got to resteem and upvote it to qualify.

I'll check all the stats after some hours to give everyone the opportunity to win something and I’ll be using steemworld.org to check the stats. Winners will be published in a new post probalble tomorrow.

Prizes

I’ve decided to reward you guys with Steem this time around. Since I am sponsoring this myself I’ll be alternating the reward to make the contest spicier.

1st place winner gets 1 Steem

2nd place winner gets 0.75 Steem

3rd place winner gets 0.50 Steem

4th place winner gets 0.25 Steem

Others get upvotes $0.02 and above but not up to what the 4th place person gets.

Remember guys, comment, resteem and upvote only when timer hits the 15 minutes mark

The contest is only for members whose reputation is between 27 and 49

If your reputation is higher than 49 or lower than 27, I'll still upvote your comment but it will be on a smaller value of upvote say $0.02 and above but not upto 4th place winner.

Supporting Steem community members through my FASTEST FINGER CONTEST has made me come in contact with a lot of members on Steemit that are trying but are not getting the encouragement they desire and this is making some of get frustrated while others abandon ship altogether. I am financing this personally as my own way of helping members of this great community to get to the top. I hope to see you when we get there.

Good luck to every Steem community members that will participate in this contest, may the most deserving people win this contest.