Kuni .G. Isaac
Popular Nigerian artiste and songwriter, Adekunle Gold, disclosed his plea for God to take his life when he was 20 years old, due to his struggles to rise to his dream while battling a birth disease
in a letter to his fans, on Friday, July 15, Adekunle said that he was born with sickle cell disease, making aspects of his life dreadful,
he said: “I was born with sickle cell disease. It was life and death, it was physical, mental, financial, you name it, and I went through it all.
“It was tough, painful and frustrating for me. The pains and shivers were unbearable. They (crisis) always came in the night, when my family had no means to transport me to a hospital.”
The artiste revealed that at some point he had to learn to endure pain as hospital bill became an issue,
“The most intense crisis I had was at the age of 20, I remember laying in my bed in the middle of the night asking for an end to it all. I begged God to take my life because I could not understand what I did to deserve the pain my body and mind was under.
“As usual with sickle crisis after some days, the pain subsided, and God asked me; “That end you begged me for, do you still want it?” Of course I said no and that’s when everything changed for me. That was when I realised that I had been given another opportunity to live my dreams and show those that mocked me that sickle cell anemia was never going to end me, that it would never hold me back from my dreams and aspirations.” Adekunle explained
According to a statement the disease taught him to be strong and resilient through all the struggles to endure the pain that took him steps ahead to achieve his dream and prove doubting Thomas’s
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