“When you die, will love die too?”
I came across the sentence when I was busy hopping from one youtube trailer to another in between refraining myself from doing the research paper review that I needed to submit 2 weeks ago. It’s from a Japanese movie called “Crying out Love, in the Center of the World”. I’ve read the manga so basically I knew what the plot was like, but then since the actor’s look wasn’t tempting enough so I decided to pass the movie.
So lets get back to the very sentence. Do you think that love will also die when we die?
When I was in Form 1, seperti biaselah semua orang mesti pernah buat kerja kursus sejarah kan so basically we were assigned to do a Salasilah Keluarga. So there I went from one relative to another, asking about their name, hobby, DOB, etc etc. So I went to this one aunt, a very good aunt of mine, who was like my second mother, whose house I used to sleepover at so many times when I was little. She’s a single mother; her husband died of heart attack when her last daughter, my cousin at the same age who I am very close with, can barely walk. So in the Salasilah Keluarga I have to ask the question, what is the happiest or saddest moment in your life. My aunt, she went silent for a while, but still with that reassuring smile she said “I couldn’t think of any happier moment in my whole life,”. It made me silent, too; how was I supposed to answer to that?
Then she said “Maybe there’s one happy moment that I will always treasure. When I got married, during the makan beradat (the one where the newly-weds dine together and the groom will finger-fed the bride and we will go oohs and aahs), my husband whispered to my ear, “Kalau saya mati, awak tak boleh kahwin lagi,”
My aunt never remarry after her husband died. She passed away 16 years later.
I was 12 when she told me the story.
Somewhere in Jannah, insyaAllah, I would always imagine her being reunited with her husband, all safe and sound, happily ever after. That, to me, was the mortal love that will go through eternity. And the love that will never die when you die, because I was left to remember their story.
To Allahyarham Masamah binti Haji Mashadi. al-Fatihah.
