I was at my hometown when the Ministry announced
that the country applied the RMO in our country nationwide. It fit the purpose
and in line with our mission; which is to break the chain of the COVID-19.
Hence, that was the initial cause why my wedding turns upside down.
Our (My husband and I) has been cancelled few
times, which later causing us to suffer financially and mentally. We were
scheduled to fly to Bandung on the 25th - which later we cancelled our trip.
Health is way salient compared to anything else.
I was browsing over the internet and saw a
posting of someone having her honeymoon in Bali, back in the year 2012. I was
... envy-yet-I-believe-that-nothing-can-be-done right now. It's okay. There’s
no valid reason to feel envious to anyone though. I should (read: must) learn
to be grateful for what I have and what I own in this life. There's no point of
comparing our lives.
How did I fill my holiday during this RMO?
The answers were pretty simple. I spent my time
with cooking and trying new recipes that I haven't tried before. I was never a
good cook. I googled everything before I started preparing whatever ingredient
needed in the dish. The kitchen? MashaAllah! I promise that you wouldn’t
like the kitchen when I started to cook. So messy! And obviously, I would be
taking hours to do the cleanup right after I finished cooking.
At this point, I constantly felt that I have not
enough tools to cook. I felt like buying everything (which I knew, those items
that I wished to buy would not been used after the RMO though).
Throughout the RMO, I do realize that the favors
of Allah would never ceased. Even though we could not go out, but He replaced
those favor with something even precious. Allahuakhbar. He replaced whatever
makes us sick and sad to something that could soothes our feelings. Let me
explain further. Me and my close friends (the zizters) did talked about our
changes of lifestyle during the RMO. The bonding. We are even closer to our
family. The family members started to do things together. Spending time
together. Isn’t that beautiful?
Alhamdulillah Allah, for the endless nikmat. For
the endless love. For the abundance of sustenance.
This life is --- indeed beautiful.
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