FIRE IN MY CLOSET

Have you ever gone through so much that you start believing that you are now immune to the effect of bad situations. In you head you believe you have built an unimpenetrable wall around your heart that it cant be touched, in otherward you believe your heart is harder than a rock. You reach a point where you feel nothing can phase you at all, then BOOM you encounter something that turns your heart inside out. Well, welcome to the story of my life. It is exactly one month today since my house caught fire. So 2023 was being its normal self, hard difficult and very few things going right as the responsibilities kept increasing. I had developed a heart as hard as rock, atleast that's what I believed. I didn't know 2023 had it's not very nice plans waiting for me. Amidst everything going on in my mind one Monday evening in the last week of May I decided to go to a nearby trading Centre to check on something my sister had told me to buy for my niece. Usually I like to walk to the...