Sometimes I think we have children because we want to leave behind someone who can explain who we were to the world when we are gone. - Ayobami Adebayo

Didn't think it was possible for the world to change so suddenly. I was aware of other people moving up and down the corridor: I heard heels clicking, people speaking, felt some bodies push past mine. But I felt so alone, as though within the space of time it had taken Yejide to say, "They have taken Olamide to the mortuary" I had been transported to a planet with no human life.

Already, I was coming undone, like a hastily tied scarf coming loose, on the ground before the owner is aware of it.

The reasons why we do the things we do will not always be the ones that others will remember. Sometimes.