LOVE IS NOT BLIND ( If love is Blind, How can there be Love at First Sight )

Often times I have heard the popular saying "LOVE IS BLIND" and every time I do something from inside me disagrees totally. After a while of ruminating the line I seldom ask my self the question "Is love really blind? A lot of us will say yes to this and again i have another question which is "should we wait till marriage open our eyes to the realities of 'love'? Hmmm! I am not a marriage counselor neither am I specialized in love nor match making but I want you to take a walk with me as we stroll into the life of Amoke Aderibigbe. Amoke was a mother who was two years shy of attaining the golden age. On a saturday afternoon, she brought her 25 years old daughter who have been battling sickle cell disease since birth and have survived countless crisis but yet was suffering from another. During my conversation with Amoke while her child was in the ward she narrated a story that she stated happened about 26yrs ago. After a deep breathe, word kept pouring out of her mouth as tears simultaneously rolled down her cheek as the enunciated that "just like yesterday.......Adewale asked me to marry him. We were so madly in love that we refuse to yield the doctor's advice which indicated that it is dangerous for us to get married due to the AS and AS nature of myself and Adewale's genotype. We were so filled with affections for each other that we couldnt see beyond our hearts , though we did the genotype check many times after but the result remained same. We decided to extend our faith by getting married and resolved that if we should have two children we might be lucky that none of them will be sickle celled. Ha! Ha! HA! she sobbed and continued "Adewale died immediately I gave birth to Ireti who unluckily was diagnosed of sickle cell disease and since then, it has been only me and her in the battle. I have spent close to a fortune already and I feel guilty of putting ireti in this condition". After crying for a while, she rushed to the ward to check on her sick child and said to her pronto "Ireti i am very sorry I did this to you,please forgive me please! Please!" Just then Ireti started shouting in pain and her mother rushed out for the ward screaming doctor! doctor! doctor!! After the doctor confirmed ireti's death to her mother she immediately slumped to death. Amoke and her family's story haven't since then left me with something to ponder over and today I decided to share to as to educate and enlighten my friends and everyone seeing this that the popular line "LOVE IS BLIND" is lame and could be the thin line between a bright future and an oblique one. Please people, once you are AS, there is no better for you than to marry someone with genotype AA. This is for your own good. By so doing, we can eradicate the sickle cell disease from our society.

prevention is cheaper than cure!!!  

Cheers.

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