Day to Day basis

Life is an adventure. Lots of ups & downs. Why is it like that, God only knows.

I'd like to equate myself as an airplane. Many times it hits turbulances & there are several of them such as severe, heavy & light. But for most severe cases no matter how bad or how hard it is, the plane would stabilise eventually. Most of them do. What more nowadays with all the state of the art technology installed in all new planes, they have actually been designed to withstand the worst case scenario ever. Imagine that. Still according to some aviation experts the most dangerous time during air flight is during take off and landing.

There were a couple of cases where planes crashed during landing recently the one in Jakarta and if i am not mistaken in South America where the jet overshot the runway. As for the one in Jakarta it turned out that the plane was coming down too fast and hit hard on the ground.

Now coming back to what i was saying above, to me we are like an airplane too. We have to expect turbulences in our lives; be it severe medium or light. And as to whether we can withstand these turbulences i think it would depend on our experiences and knowledge. Also our faith in God.

To me i have come to a realisation that the more turbulences we experience in life the more experience and knowledge we will gain. It is to our benefit actually. If so we have to crash during any of these turbulences; to me it is the will of God that we have to accept. Remember sometimes when a plane crashes there are still survivors found alive and well!

So when we are experiencing turbulences normally in a plane the pilot will light the seat belt sign ON and the flight attendant will switch the cabin lights OFF; if it gets worse, oxygen masks will fall out & at the end we will be asked to bend our body to our knees and brace ourselves to expect the worst.

So comparing that to real life I suppose what we should do when we are experiencing 'turbulence' is perhaps to switch OFF all our future ambitions or projections for the time being and wait until we pass by it. We should go very slow in whatever we do at time like this. In other words we should carry ourselves on Day to Day Basis.

I am experiencing severe turbulence in my life right now. So severe that anytime it may crash! But until i do I am going to do all the necessary within my power to come out of this turbulence. I am not ready to land yet and I believe my destination is a long way to reach. So for those who know me would surely realise that i have been missing in action for a while. I am still around and keeping hard to stay afloat. At the moment my 'seat belt' sign's light is ON and all other 'cabin lights' are OFF. Maybe in a week or so my 'oxygen mask' will come down and I may have to brace myself. At the moment no sign that the 'turbulence' will slow down so I am still hoping for the best. Insya Allah! So for those who do know me personally I sincerely apologise for being missing in action. God willing we shall meet again in the near future.

Anyway I think it is not too late to wish everyone SELAMAT HARI RAYA 'AIDILFITRI. MAAF ZAHIR BATIN. May all the blessings be with everybody.