Today I lost someone quite close to me and my family. Can't really pin-point our relationship, but well I see him almost everyday of the week and on most weekdays. So to know that he's no longer with us, the office will feel really empty. You see the thing I don't like about death isn't death itself, but the lingering emptiness that we will experience after the passing of a person. It's sad.
It's quite a sad Friday really. To wake up to such a devastating news. It's even more sad with the fact that we just had a conversation together the night before. There was no signs, no sickness and whatsoever. He left peacefully in his sleep. Even though he managed to wake up for the dawn prayers, mentioned by his wife. Went back to sleep and he left this world. Sigh...
Hearing the news of someone's passing always make me think about everything in life. About my life, about our existence here and so on. It's quite disheartening to remember everything that we know in life, will one day be forgotten, and one day be left alone by us as we leave this world behind. Yet the simple and obvious fact that we are here in this world is magnificent enough to ponder!
Death will come to us no matter what and no matter when. And the passing of someone is a bittersweet reminder of this fact. That nothing is permanent in this world and that we have to be ready I guess. Yet it seems pretty difficult for us to live our life to the fullest.
Someone said this to me yesterday:
"Why do people die? Because we are all born into this world"
Simple, yet deep. There are many different ways that we can all die from. Sickness, old age, accidents and suicide. Yet we all share one common cause: the fact that we are all here in this world.
Selamat Jalan Pak Bambang.
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