Salam there?
How have you been?
I hope you’re okay. Because I’m not okay. I’m writing this on bed.
I dah mention in last newsletter, bulan 11 and bulan 12, I will send monthly newsletter, and hopefully next year, we can come back to our lovely weekly newsletter.
I know you miss me.
But you have to remember, bad things will end, and good things will also end too. There’s nothing permanent on this earth.
Months ago, someone asked me, What’s next after declutter? Look, I already have my answer, but I decided not to answer it immediately as I dah schedule several newsletter sebelum ni.
We plan, Allah also plan.
And Allah’s plans are much much better.
Let me tell you a story.
During Deepavali last month, while you were dancing, “Tumpass se airr..”, my family had to call an ambulance to bring me to the hospital.
I was sad. But this experience was a good thing, because I have something solid to share with you today.
So sebelum ambulans datang, I was thinking: Do I have any regrets in life? If dah sampai masa I untuk pulang, apa yang I menyesal?
Damn it hit so hard.
That’s the moment that I had a deathbed kind of question.
And my mind began crawling to the past… “Ok aku dah start Minimalis newsletter. Aku dah start The Quran Notes Newsletter…”
Majalah Minimalis pun dah buat.
And other things I don’t want to share; and I realized, part contribution dari segi knowledge, settled.
Cuma, kena banyakkan lagi, and kena ramaikan lagi audience, so that ramai orang dapat manfaar.
Look, I don’t want to do a lot of things, then hilang fokus. Minimalis in projek. Quality, is the best quantity.
Lebih baik you buat 1 benda dengan sangat baik, daripada buat 10 benda dengan asal siap.
So that time, I was thinking, apa benda lagi tak cukup? What’s my regret?
Long story short, I just realized that, I tak cukup baik. I was a bad person. I was panas baran. Dok guna pun mung ada contribution award berjela-jela, tapi bila orang ingat ke mung, orang ingat perangai mu macam Kahar.
Opss, do you know Kahar?
The High Council Guy. The kiddos love to watch it btw.
(Well basically Kahar adalah ketua High Council, ketua buli di sekolah dia, and High Council ini adalah tradisi sekolah tu for many years, and even the alumni decided to hide it. So Fakhry decided untuk hapuskan High Council. So that explains Kahar vs Fakhri)
I’m not that bad like Kahar, but I wasn’t nice either.
That’s the thing yang I nak fix, plus continue contribution dari segi sedekah jariah dan ilmu bermanfaat.
So what’ next after declutter is, you should prepare for death.
That’s my answer.
Look, I wasn’t really worried about my stuff sebab I dah declutter banyak. So I don’t think I akan menyusahkan my family in regards to that matter.
You know kan, kalau kita tinggalkan byk barang, susahkan family kita nak kemas.
To prepare for death, kena fikir, benda apa kita tak cukup buat lagi?
Imagine you have decluttered your stuff, like Joshua:
Joshua suka menulis. So dia ada banyak buku, which not a big deal, sebab dia perlu membaca untuk contribute dari segi penulisan.
Kalau barang kita banyak, setiap minggu kena kemas, sempat ke nak fokus on
samada make more money untuk sedekah jariah
or contribute ilmu bermanfaat
or spend time with kids untuk tackle part doa anak soleh
If you haven’t decluttered, just start with your almari. Baju-baju. Nanti momentum tu datang untuk you declutter tupperware lat dapur, bilik air, barang dalam kereta.
You just need to start somewhere.
Then bila dah takde apa nak dikemaskan, your mind akan clear. Rumah pun clear. Bila semua dah clear, tiba-tiba akan terdetik that question, what’s next?
Hidup ini sementara, kena fikir nak bawa apa kesana.
Arah mana jalan syurga..
Anyway, I have 9 minutes left before the time hit 12am. I have promised nak hantar this newsletter in November.
I know you don’t remember, and you don’t really care pun.
But we all need to tunaikan janji kita, apa kita kata nak buat, kena buat. Even though you sakit kena tulis atas katil.
Maybe I have grammatical errors here and there, and I don’t want to check, so I see you next month?
InshaAllah.
Love you guys.
- Faaz