Topic three: Without seeing
Name something you have seen with your own eyes that you could live without having seen. Explain what it is, how or why you saw it and why you'd prefer to erase it from your mind and memory. How has it effected you
It's another interesting and challenging 
Searching through my mind there are different memories I'd love to do away with. But one of the toughest things I once saw which I wished i hadn't seen and can do without is the memory of my favorite teacher who had gotten burnt in a fire. Although he miraculously survived the fire but his body was burnt to the extent that he had keloids for years.
This incident happened about 11 years ago but I still remember vividly how he looked on the hospital bed. It had been a terrible sight. I wasn't happy that he had gone through that experience but I can't help but think that if I hadn't gone to see him immediately at the hospital, I wouldn't have seen him in such a terrible state. Whichever way, there's no way I couldn't have seen him in the state. This is because I would have eventually gone to see him no matter what.
It was on a cool afternoon several years ago, I'd been home, when I received a call that my teacher had been involved in a fire and had been rushed to an hospital. It all sounded too sudden and unbelievable until I called his wife. It took her a while before she could answer the phone. It was then I knew that something was truly wrong.
After I eventually got through to her, she told me where they were and told me that it was really serious. He had been trying to switch on his generator the previous night as there was no power supply, when it exploded. There had been naked light somewhere around at the time which caused the explosion. His whole body and clothes he had on had been on fire for some minutes before anyone could put off the fire successfully. So he had gotten really burnt.
I had mixed feelings of sadness, fear and worry after hearing the news then. But this was a man who had been good to me and I was one of his closest students. We were so close that I knew his family and I am almost a part of his family too. I knew I just had to go and see him as soon as possible despite my dislike for hospitals. I kept on wondering if he will ever get better.
It took me few days but I surmoned courage to go and see him. I had developed a phobia for going to hospitals especially the particular hospital he had been admitted in because my mother suffered for months and yet died there.
I eventually went to see him and as I got closer to his bed I started feeling very sad and terrible. He was a terrible sight to behold. He was badly burned, had no clothes on except loose bandages which were soaked in blood. Only his face seemed a bit free and okay and I began to cry. He started telling me not to cry that he was going to get better.. the sight of his body was so terrible to behold that I avoided looking past his face all through my stay beside his bed.
I couldn't stay too long, because I was very sad and uncomfortable. The hospital also didn't want people staying too long around him. However, that memory of him being terribly burnt and almost naked remained with me for years. Even after he got better, which I'm grateful for. Although I have gotten over the memory, back then it made me scared for days. I began to see the human flesh or body as weak and prone to destruction easily or after any attack. I couldn't eat meat well without having ideas for days. I didn't tell anyone this.
I was grateful years after that he was able to get over the accident, he even went on to have another baby with his wife afterwards.
Although I've gotten over the memory of him being almost damaged as this has been replaced with memories of him enjoying his life and having a new skin living abroad, I still remember how terrible he looked back then after the fire.
(An exterior of an hospital photo taken by me)
