Where Me Can’t Buy Love

Me was recently admitted due to an acute ailment. It was quite a traumatic experience in itself when to suddenly fall sick out of nowhere and found me self totally “helpless” lying on a hospital bed which me had not done so since me was five! Since it was quite a serious illness, me have to be strong and persevere by following every prescription given by those doctors that diagnosed and treated me sickness.

Thanks to Allah the almighty, the worst is now over. After five long days of being on the drip and going through a surgery to rectify the imbalances in me system, me knew, me trouble would be soon over when the doctor said me can be on a normal diet again!

The thought of being incapacitated when you least expecting it can itself be quite a frightening experience. There were still things to be done and you just don’t know whether you can survive the ordeal to finish those unfinished businesses. But strangely enough, me “hospital experience” has given me a rare insight into the one aspect that we always take for granted in our haste to get on with our everyday lives – the gift of love especially from those precious to us.

While lying on me hospital bed, feeling weak and vulnerable, me suddenly felt the one unexplained force that seemed to radiate from those attending to me needs, giving their all for me sake, which seemed to provide the energy and giving me the strength to fight on and staying alive. The selfless gift of love from those whom, during our normal days were just our “somebody” had transformed me harrowing suffering into a pleasant and “cool” sensation - of being loved and would sorely be missed if anything were to happen to me.

Well it took a sudden “jerk” in me system for me to realize the plain truth that there is no more precious gift than the gift of love - especially from those that you truly love. Now, that me episode with the hospital is nearly coming to an end, me has resolved not to take things for granted from now on. Everything that we have and everything that we do must have a purpose and we must not forget, behind our individual suffering, there will always be those loved ones who will suffer more for our lost due to their unconditional love for us where no amount of money can buy that love.

Thanks so much to those who had assisted me in me times of distressed especially to me "ambulance drivers" En Imran, En Hafeez and En Azim and his lovely fiance Ms Mira, and all me family members and CEO and staff of Rakannusa. And not forgetting special thanks to Dato’ Dr Ngun and staff from the Kuantan Specialist Hospital and Dr Koh and staff from the Ampang Puteri Specialist Hospital, Kuala Lumpur who had acted swiftly and professionally to diagnose and cure me illnesses...of course me is eternally grateful to Allah swt who is the ultimate Healer.

“Kindness in words creates confidence, kindness in thinking creates profoundness, kindness in giving creates love” - Lao Tsu.


Room 529,
Ampang Puteri Hospital, KL
18 November 2009