As I reached KLIA1, I searched for Airport Limo Malaysia (ALM) to get home. The driver was waiting outside with his poker face, greeted with an empty stare. In the car, I looked at him and he at me, until I broke eye contact and pulled myself up. “Why are you so dejected?” I asked. “Oh, nothing. I’m just too tired waiting in the queue for customer”. My forehead wrinkled. “End of year, less people traveling. People just spend time with their families for Christmas, Malaysia has no snow. Why should they come to Malaysia?” He continued.
“Money troubles?” He nodded unwillingly.
2016 seemed tough for almost every of us. He wasn’t the first people I met expressing the down and out looks. There’s few more people in my circle who serving for the downsizing companies. Late payment, no bonus, twice payment a month, and firing non-productive staffs. It is happening in fact to multinational companies.
Scrolling the feeds on facebook, you will find some people showing off their financial capabilities. Bought 4 new tires for RM1000++ each. Travelling here and there with branded cars and flights. Eating lobster as just the ‘dessert’. It is happening in fact by the jobless fellas. Their minded are so confusing and I decided not to give a shit. Most of the time, I saw people who reminds me to think that at least, I have home, I was in school, and have a marvelous family. Because a lot more people around us have lost their homes, livelihood and families, even worse, they have nowhere to go.
My company paid us accordingly. Never missed or late, thus I never missed pay my car and house too. And I have a helpful wife who always makes things easier. Shouldn’t I be grateful enough?
My life not bounded to yearly planner. There’s no such thing as ‘azam tahun baru’. Because life never tells me to make a change in such way. I believe in sunnatullah and the concept of tawakkal.
No life is so hard that you can’t make it easier by the way you take it.
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