It was almost a month ago that I found out my cousin had passed away and today the phone call came to let me know that one of my work mates had passed away this morning. I was expecting the news but not as soon as this and I knew that I was not expecting it because when the words "passed away this morning'" were uttered to me, no words came out of my mouth. No matter how many words there are in the English language, at that moment in time, I couldn't find a single one.
My colleague was not only a colleague, he was a friend and a real character. He made working enjoyable, mainly because we used to spend most of our time not doing what we were supposed to be and chatting. He had some stories. Not sure if all of them were true but all just as fascinating as the last.
The one thing I admired about this person was the way he never took any rubbish from anyone and told it how it was. Maybe I wanted to be more like that. He used to have a smile on his face and his cheeky personality and sense of humour was just so infectious, nobody in the store had a bad word to say about him. They might have said bad words with him because he did let the occasional swear word slip out.
Since the phone call I have been thinking about all of the good times we had at work, talking out the back when we should have been working, him flirting with the customers, including my cousin, auntie and sister. He knew how to wind me up but that was what we all loved about him.
The news of his death has not sunk in yet. I am going home on Friday, a trip that was already planned that may have to be extended slightly. What the news has done is it has brought back all of the memories from a few weeks ago when my cousin passed away. I have been thinking about him a lot recently as well. All I am thinking now is I hope they both meet up in heaven because something tells me they would get on very well.
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