Losing someone
13 November 2011 15:00 (waktu Indonesia)
Mami wrote : kak Perak masih sadar tapi kesakitan sekali keluar lendiran, demam lagi.
13 November 2011 16:22 (waktu Indonesia)
Mami wrote : Papi lg visite. Kak Perak tensinya 70/40 kata Kak Hera. Doa ya sayang.
15 November 2011 11:15 (waktu Indonesia)
Mami wrote : Van, Puji Tuhan, tensi tante Perak sudah 122. Tante Popo trus di Cikini temeni Kak Hera. Doa ya.
17 November 2011 12:22 (waktu Indonesia)
Mami wrote : Van, tt Perak sudah meninggal
17 November 2011 06:22 (Utrecht)
Blank.
Setengah jam kemudian gue telepon nyokap ke Indonesia di Pontianak. Nyokap cuma teriak, akhirnya bokap yang ambil alih telepon, trus bokap bilang mami bakal ke Jakarta sekarang. Gue masih blank.
Sebenernya lebay gue nulis ginian, secara ada beberapa orang yang pasti sejuta kali lebih sedih dari gue, obviously, kek kak hera sendiri ama bapak tua joko. For me it was so sad, just imagine how they felt.
Then, the other thing is, a couple of weeks ago my mum messaged and she said that she missed Tante Perak so much. All I could say, mami, she’s happy now looking at us from above. I know it’s not helping, but well I don’t know.
Just about two months earlier, we lost our bapak tua Lambok. Kejadian nya cukup similar, tapi bedanya gue di Majalaya, mami di Pontianak, bapak tua di Jakarta.
So it’s two times in a row.
I pray for the people who lost their beloved. May God grant them strength and the power to move on and keep on living.
I pray for the people who have chronic disease, whatever it is. May God grant them strength and the power to fight and keep on living.
People, kita ga pernah tahu kapan orang-orang yang kita sayangin bakal pergi. So don’t take them for granted. Ga banyak orang-orang yang masih bisa punya keluarga utuh, punya sahabat-sahabat yang tulus, punya asuransi buat berobat ke rumah sakit, punya duit untuk beli obat di apotik, punya mobil buat anter ke rumah sakit sampe ga perlu gedor2 pintu tetangga buat minjem ato ampe pake pick-up, masih bisa punya duit buat beli sendal jepit.