Departure

Every passenger in airport awaits for one sure thing: a departure

A flight could be delayed or rescheduled but passengers know what are they up to: a departure

A waiting period for a take-off could be uncertain, just enough or longer, but what’s more certain is the departure

Passengers will not spend their life in airport because airport is a temporary stop and they know their final destination

 

Humans are the passenger, this world is the airport, death is the departure, and afterlife is no doubt, a destination.

I currently in love with this analogue: passenger, airport, departure, and destination

I put “departure” as a title and yes, it’s a less scarier word for DEATH.

Death, it’s a daily repeated event. It even happens more frequent than daily, it could happen every hour, every minute, or every second. It’s even more frequent than our meal time, than our prayer time. Unfortunately, death schedule is not like a flight departure which is written in a ticket or announced right before you take-off. There is no reminder for our upcoming death. Meaning what? Meaning we have to be ready to depart in anytime....but sometimes God is so kind by sending humans an alarm such as illness, before our time to depart, so we still have time to repent and increase our quality as a human to be good enough in front of Him.

To be honest, my perception of death improves after Nanda’s departure.

Wait, ‘improve’? Well, here is a few explanation. Before her departure, I know that word death is mentioned repeatedly in the Qur’an, but I perceived it as no more than just a verse, so my level of seriousness of facing death is relatively low, it seems less real to me.

But after her departure, after gradually noticing she’s not here and will never be anymore, it becomes more real that death is the most certain thing that will happen to Allah’s creations, in this topic, human race. What we don’t know is when. So again, meaning we have to be ready to depart in anytime, because whatever bussiness(es) we have on this earth, they are basically subtasks, the main task is waiting in line to depart. And God let us do whatever we want during that waiting time. So, it is up to us how we want to make that valuable.

I didn’t see her departing, but I saw her physical body after she had gone and everything she left. yes she left literally everything. Her favorit books, violin, favorite clothes, instagram, facebook, her crush, her family, her worryness, her pain, everything in this world. Only good deeds as her companion in alam barzah. Her time in this world was so short, our time will also be that short, a little more or less.

It is sad, but also it is a relieve. A relieve because it reminds us there is something great awaits us in the end over these worldly temptations. Our duty is to pursue it because we as humans deserve that.

Her departure light hopes in my heart. Her departure reminds me that there is something worth the struggles in the end.

She left the family with so many hikmah. Like my dad stopped smoking and started studying Islam deeper. Our family tighten the grip of each other so we can meet again in afterlife with happiness. Doesn't mean that we ignore this world but we set it not as our top priority.

Sooo..that was just me wrote how I perceive death. Sorry guys I didn’t mean to preach you haha but  just a friendly reminder (because I love you) it is real that we only have short time in this world, so dont worry! Just focus on the goodness and do good deeds. You only live once so....carpe diem. Happiness is not forever, sadness is not either. Nothing last forever in this world...sooo aim higher because you worth more.

“Dan tiadalah kehidupan dunia ini melainkan senda gurau dan main-main. Dan sesungguhnyanakhirat itulah yang sebenarnya kehidupan, kalau mereka mengetahuinya.” (QS. Al Ankabut 64)