What We Want to Leave Behind Is ....

We do not have the privilege to know how much time we have left on this earth. Only Allah knows. Every time we leave the house does not mean we will return later. Anything can happen. We have heard of so many stories where one just does not return home. Accidents. Unexpected incidents. Being at the wrong place at the wrong time. Heart attacks. We see each other in the morning before we leave does not mean we will see each other at the end of the day. Scary huh? Yet how true ....

Rokiah, a staff, went to the market with her husband a few weekends ago. Along the way her husband was having difficulty breathing. She quickly stopped at a petrol station nearby for help. They called the ambulance but her husband had already collapsed. He died on the way to the hospital. She came home a single mother of 4 children......terrifying and shocking. He had a heart attack in his fifties.

A friend went to the bank to see an officer regarding her banking matters. She was ushered to the room of the officer. She called out her greeting and expected the officer to acknowledge her. Besides, she had seen him a few times before to settle her banking matters. When he did not respond with his head on his shoulders, she called out to an officer outside who came in and discovered him already dead of a heart attack. He was in his forties and had just come back from lunch ....what a shock for his family when the bank called them.

I was walking towards one of the shopping complexes here when I saw a crowd near a bank walkway. Being curious aka "kepoh" I joined in the crowd to find out what had happened. A man was lying on the corridor motionless. Somebody had called the ambulance. When I asked the crowd around me I was told that the man just collapsed suddenly and he was alone. He died on that corridor. He never returned home ...

Finally ...the late Karpal Singh. He did not make the journey home to his family....

"And what you want to leave behind is people to remember you with love ..." look at all the accolades written about Karpal Singh. People remembered him with fond memories...nobody mentioned anything bad about him. Thus, when I leave this world, I hope people whether known or unknown, will remember me with love ....for what I have done and somehow touched their lives in my own small, insignificant way.

Hence, whatever you want to do, need to do, wherever you want to go .... just do it when you feel the time and circumstances are right ... when you feel it is the right thing to do at that moment of time ...
do not procrastinate. We have wasted enough time when we were younger and busy with our career, children, family, friends that we often neglect ourselves and giving back to society. Do good, expect nothing in return ..... let people remember us with love and fond thoughts even though we have done unspeakable things too ... to err is human after all.