Love or Obsession

Obsession is the domination of one's thoughts or feelings by a persistent idea, image, and desire. It can be of many things ranging from people, sports, objects, drugs, cars and anything that one holds valuable to their lives. It normally leads to confusion and insecurity. A very common obsession has to do with people; women with men and vice versa. People fail to control what they feel towards others. They seem to forget that they do have the will power to control the feelings and not let the feelings control them. People have forgotten to use their willpower and their intelligence to distinguish true love from obsession. Obsession from many experiences has led to the loss of lives. Many people think that all they hear are tales. That is not the case always, not with what I will be telling you now. This all happened in a rich agricultural part of Kenya. A man met her and for sure he knew that never would they part ways. He had met the woman he knew he would spend his entire life with. No one or nothing would change his mind. She also saw the same with him and in all the excitement she agreed to commit. They had a very beautiful ceremony where she said “I do”. The covenant had been sealed. The sign was there. The ring, so beautiful and perfect for her small fingers, forever together. No man was about to put them asunder. They stayed in the marriage for three years. By then everyone’s true colors could no longer be hidden. They could no longer bear each other. They had to part ways. Thank God they had no children. The man could not bear the reality. Once again he was all alone in his life and all he could do was make her life a living hell. He started sending her threatening messages. He did this severally that he left her no choice than to go to the police. They had a case in court… Was it really worth all the threats? Most people who viewed them from a distance could not see the importance. But only the man could explain. He had it in himself that only she could be part of her life; then and forever. On the wake of the hearing the man could not face it. He decided that not even her decision was fit enough to put them asunder. He spent a whole night sharpening his tool. The tool he would use to end her life. At the crack of dawn, he waited for her at the stage. Once she was off the matatu he ambushed her and with the sharp knife he stabbed his forever one and only love to death. She had called for help before she breathed her last. The people who heard her cry came running and with the same knife stabbed the now separated husband to death. Seven times and he too breathed his last.
A death of two! Was it really worth the obsession? These and many more question lingered on the onlookers’ minds. Some suggested they be laid to rest together. For not even death could part them. This is just a reality of the things an obsession makes one do. The sad reality that has put an end to many. All I hope is that we can have control and intelligence when dealing with our emotions. Do we have to witness another death to learn?