At The End Of Your Life...

Nobody like to write about death actually and this is not a topic anyone likes to think about. But again I'd like to share what Paulo Coelho wrote about death.

"I saw death as my daily companion, who is always by my side, saying: 'I will touch you, but u don't know when. Therefore, live life as intensely as you can.' Because of this, I never leave until tomorrow what I can do or experience today - and that includes joys, work obligation, saying I'm sorry if I feel I've offended someone, and contemplation of the present moment as if it were my last. My epitaph wrote 'He died while he was still alive.' That might seem a contradiction in terms; but I know a lot of people who have stopped living, even though they continue working and eating and carrying on with their usual social activities. They do everything on automatic pilot, unaware of the magic moment that each day brings with it, never stopping to think about the miracle of life, not understanding that the next minute could be their last on the face of this planet. I have a duty to my readers - to make them think about the important things in life. And death is the most important thing. We are all walking towards death, but we never know when death will touch us and it is our duty, therefore, to look around us, to be grateful for each minute. But we should also be grateful to death, because it makes us think about the importance of each decision we take, or fail to take; it makes us stop doing anything that keeps us stuck in the category of the 'living dead' and, instead, urges us to risk everything, to bet everything on those things we always dreamed of doing, because, whether we like it or not, the angel of death is waiting for us."

And this is what I wrote when comes to answer the question - If, at the end of your life, you had an opportunity to evaluate it, what would you have accomplished and contributed, who would you have been for your family, friends, community and so forth?

"Pada akhir hayat saya, saya mahu memastikan saya dapat mencapai impian saya untuk membantu orang lain untuk mengetahui dengan jelas apa yang mereka inginkan dalam hidup mereka. Saya mahu dikenang sebagai seorang individu yang bertanggungjawab serta menyayangi dan disayangi oleh keluarga, rakan-rakan serta anggota masyarakat. Saya juga mahu dikenang sebagai individu yang sentiasa bersedia membantu sesiapa sahaja. Saya juga mahu keluarga, rakan-rakan serta sesiapa saja yang telah saya bantu dapat meneruskan kesinambungan impian saya agar setiap dari mereka kemudiannya dapat membantu orang lain memperoleh “nilai” daripada impian tersebut."