Actor IK Ogbonna has said the death of his closest friend, Alexx Ekubo, has left him with many questions about life. In a recent post, his first since Alexx’s passing, IK said nothing had prepared him for such a painful loss.
He wrote: “On May 11, I lost my best friend and brother. Nothing prepares you for a loss like that. “There is something I have come to realise these past few months. Every day, we see an ambulance drive past us. Sometimes it is moving fast, sometimes slowly. We look up for a second and whisper, ‘God have mercy’ or ‘Rest in peace.’ Then we continue with our day because, somehow, we always believe the person inside belongs to somebody else.
“Every day, the news tells us another person has died. We shake our heads. We type ‘RIP’. We send our condolences. Then we move on. But the truth is, you never truly understand the weight of death until it is your own person inside that vehicle, until the phone stops ringing forever, until the chair beside you remains empty, until the conversation you thought you had time to finish suddenly becomes memories.”
IK said that had been his reality since Alexx’s death.
“For the past two months, I have been trying to understand life, trying to understand loss, trying to understand God, trying to understand why someone so full of life can suddenly become a memory. I still don’t have all the answers. In fact, I don’t think anyone does.
