I was on a call with my cousin some days back and my battery was running low, 5% left
WhatsApp notified her that “Olabisi’s battery is running low and she may disconnect soon”
I was enjoying the conversation and had planned to rush to connect my charger when it’s about 3%.
I know my phone never goes off until it gets to 2% or sometimes 1% even.
And then she laughed at me and questioned why I refused to charge my obviously low battery.
“I can charge it at anytime, we have non-stop power, here” I replied.
And there you go…my phone went off before I made it to the charger
And that brings me to the lesson I drew from that incident.
This is the state of some marriages.
Married to your best friend and assured of each other’s love. Almost certain that you both will be in love forever.
Yet, gradually the love and affection slips away.
Each party is overwhelmed with the demands of work, ministry, children
And gradually the love battery drains
For all the transfer of aggression, the insensitive comment, the selfish moves, the lack of empathy, the neglect….the battery drains some more.
And just like my phone, it runs down completely before you could get it charged.
All because you believed you could charge it anytime.
– No one knows how much time they have left to spend with their spouse
– Never be overly confident of the strength of your love battery that you ignore charging it.
– The amount of time and effort it takes to charge a completely flat battery is more compared to one with some power in it.
– Lastly, sometimes the battery is so drained that it never comes up again.
Pls, do what you can with these analogies as you look inward.
I still have much to say, but I’ll pause here for now.
Written by Olabisi David
Presented by Damilare Mike David
written for REGEN
