09.08.07

09.08.07

Kemarin pagi pukul 12-an a.m. terjadi gempa di Jawa.

Nggak ada tanda apa-apa, bahkan hari itu aku lagi diliburkan karena pilkada DKI Jakarta & seharian bebersih rumah karena petangnya ada forum keluarga Mama. Setelah itu menyelesaikan sisa materi buku LouAnne Johnson yang belum (juga) diselesaikan Dani. Nggak nyangka, tapi aku bisa maklum karena beban penderitaan dan cobaan dia juga lagi banyak dan datang bertubi-tubi (I’m standing behind you always, pal). Well, hawanya memang panas sekali, tapi kegerahan itu sudah berlangsung selama dua bulan ini. Aku juga kan habis sakit gejala flu berat dan hampir demam, jadi memangnya merasa gerah terus. I clearly recall it, I was watching “The Transporter”, almost fell asleep, then suddenly I got dizzy–close to nausea. I tried to get up, but I lost my grip and felt the earth’s moving. It scared me! I walked out of my room, met big sis outside then we both starred each other and agreed that there was an earthquake.
I turned on the tv and referred to MetroTV. But instead of having the rapid, brief information of the event, they had a automobile show. SCTV didn’t respond immediately, RCTI frozen their program to this idle warrant of 7.0 richter scale earthquake inside Pangandaran Beach.
It wasn’t as terrible as the one we had couple of years back though. At that moment I was having a meeting in HIMA FPBS room, and I felt someone shook my chair heavily. “Who’s that? Can you see I’m working here?” I remarked rudely. None was replied. Then silent. The room window’s glass suddenly shattered. “GEMPAAA!” somebody shouted. Everybody was panic, but they managed to stay calm and took the procedure right away.
Ndji once told me of her experience when Jakarta was shook for the 2nd time. She was still officed in Multivision Building, 24th floor, she followed the procedure to take emergency stairs instead of the elevator. Imagine, Ndji running down from 24th floor to the ground… unbelievable! No wonder she decided to go home afterwards.
This one is actually scared me a lot since we had this Tsunami’s trauma. I had a silly thought right in the middle of it; which thing will I take first if earthquake “ate” our home? Notebook? Jewelry? Or else?
I realize there’s nothing more important in this life than our own soul. Forget those material things; we’ll eventually depart to His arm without carrying any single thing. Maybe that’s what religion told us not to worship money, fortune, jewelries, or other mortal materials. They cannot save you after all.
So yesterday earthquake was somehow a precious lesson of life for me. It might destroy and ruin everything that one has worked so hard to gain, only in a blink of our eyes. Don’t enslave your life working too much and forget to thank Allah and refuse to share what you’ve got to the needy ones. Simplify your life, free yourself from gadget and unnecessary life-style. I guess that’s way you’ll eliminate your mundane stress of fulfilling a certain level that might not EVER reach FOREVER. Be real!