The Lesson of Life

In the recent week that had passed, a fellow staff had collapse and passed away in line of duty. His passing on had been a shock and a terrible loss for the whole satff population for he had been a jovial kind-hearted colleague. He never failed to make newcomers like us feel at ease in settling into the environment. The announcement of his passing on 2 hours after sending him to the A&E was simply too much for staff to take. Many of us grieved the rest of the week

The sudden loss was hard for us all to deal with. Everyone of us had our own coping mechanism with the loss - us cubicle mates had not cleared his things, somehow it made us felt that he was just on leave or MC, his jovial good buddies at work who often would crack jokes to lighten up the day suddenly became people of few words, working hard away to keep themselves occupied....

As we sent our dear colleague off on the last day of the funeral, the staff could not help but let our tears fall once again. But strangely enough somehow, there was a sense of peace on our way back to the office from the cemetery. My senior told me that she felt that sending our dear colleague off on the last part of the journey had been sort of a closure for us, hence we felt more peaceful.

The whole week was a mourning week for the staff as we don colours of black and white in memeory of our dear colleague. In our own way, we prayed the best for his wife and two young kids and that he has called home to God in peace.

I once read this somewhere: "it is not wrong to grieve the loss of someone close to us. Grieve it the right way and give ourselves time to grieve so that we can all move on and let the memories of that someone live in our minds forever"

After this eventful week, it was also one that was really reflective for me. A dear friend asked me today: "What's with the forthcoming attitude?" Well I just thought that life is really unpredictable, if I really felt like expressing my love or emotions to you today why not? Afterall dear friend, you've been through almost every stage of my life with me till now.

I used to think it was cliche reading stories about people telling me to express my emotions or do the things that I want to do for my loved ones before it is too late. But with my dear colleague's incident, I no longer find it cliche.

There are many a time that we perhaps think of many things that we want to do in our mind but ,may probably not end up accomplishing them for whatever reasons. For all we know, we might not get a chance at it, so TREASURE and DO WHATEVER WE NEED TO DO...