20122012.
"Oh, it's the date already," I muse, as I glance at the clock on my laptop. 0200. Still early, to me. It's 'the date', not because something big is going to happen. Well, not at least in my life. It's 'the date', just because of the digit combination. Well, also because of weddings and other remarkable moments which are none of my concern others may experience.
Wait, what if 20.12.12 is unique for a reason? What if it's the one date to make us do extraordinary things - proposing to your high school sweetheart or confessing your unspoken feelings to the guy of your dreams or getting married underwater with a dolphin as your best man or realizing your life long ambition, say writing your first novel - not because we want to remember this date better and reminiscent over it later, but because we might not have another day to do so? What if there is no tomorrow?
Ah, The Mayans messing up with my brain. I laugh at myself for even thinking such a thing... or for spending my last day on earth doing absolutely nothing worth living and dying for, as I scroll down Tumblr and see yet another funny post making fun of the supposed 'Doomsday'. This time, I laugh at the absurdity of it all.
I turn on the tv. An airplane is shaking violently, and also violently, snaps into two, throwing off half its passengers screaming helplessly in the sky while the other half hold on to dear life. 'Alive', is its tittle. Ironic, seeing nobody will get out of it alive. The plane crashes to the ground and -
"What the...?" It goes black. No, not the plane. But the tv, and everything around me. Great. Black-out at this hour when everyone else is deep asleep. And I was just thinking of heating what's left of my pizza leftovers. I don't feel like going online anymore, and as I close my laptop screen, my only source of light, everything is pitch black. As dark as it can be. Not the kind of dark in which you can see your shadow or the outline of furniture, this is the kind in which you see nothing, not even your own figure.
I reach out for my cell phone slash torchlight and press a key. Wait, I press a key again. What? Now I press all the keys. Great. Dead battery at this very moment. I sigh, getting up off the couch and making my way to the stairs, my hands stretching out in front of me as not to knock anything down, wondering why the hell is there no light shade or whatsoever from the street lamps or something? Is this whole area down?
Arriving on the top of the stairs with success in term of no broken bone or swollen toe, I smoothly zombie my way to my room and jump on my bed. Ah, at least i get to sleep early tonight. Okay, early to me. It's a bit hot in here, with only a slight wind blowing through my window. Turning on the ceiling fan at full speed hoping the electricity will be restored soon, a thought strikes me if this has got anything to do with the day after today.... then I doze off to a dreamless sleep.
The blindingly shining morning sun wakes me up. It takes me a while to finally get up though, and as I do I realize I've been sweating. Don't tell me it's still black-out, but the non-spinning fan says it still is. I go down stairs and see my mom in the living room, talking on the phone.
"Your house too? I thought there's a problem with my fuse box. Hopefully they will fix it by 2 pm. Yes I wonder what will happen! It's so nerve-wrecking. The last episode..." with that word i know it is no longer worth eavesdropping. Moms and their soap operas.
I turn on my laptop to see a 70% remaining power left. I'm just going to entertain myself with the internet like i always do, black-out or not. I check out the last website I was on last night, Tumblr. I am about to start my scrolling routine when my eyes stop dead on a post. It says; "Is it just my hometown or other places have black-outs as well?" It has almost 14,000 notes. Over a night. Well, in my country part of the world. But a day it seems in others'. It is just a question, but one which creates responses.
"Where r u? The whole Aussie has interrupted power supply," the first comment. Followed by "My place too, im French, not sure about the whole country cuz there's no tv and news and all my laptop's gonna be dead in a few minutes idk whats happening??" A few other comments reporting their local's electricity condition, and then "We live across the globe and all of us have no electricity? Unless the electricity companies pull a prank on us or....", "stahp it its not funny nmore," a grammar nazi's comment in the middle of the chaos "*it's" and a frantic "guise im freaking out alrdyyy!"
Then there's one comment, a simple word, or should i say.. a simple arrangement of numbers.
"21.12.2012."
And all hell breaks loose.
disclaimer: this is a half-true story.
question: which part is true?
jeng jeng jenggggg.
So tomorrow is the day. the day some of us have been dreading, and the day some of us have been waiting for just to make a point to the ones who have been dreading it and say "HAHAHA SO MUCH FOR YOUR APOCALYPSE!"
or the dreading ones will be the one who laugh and say "TOLD CHAAA!" before they're dead too.
there are three types of people in this world. 1. the believers, 2. the deniers, 3. the whatevers.
1. The Believers.
Those who believe in the prediction. we can't really blame them... maybe they don't hold strongly their belief that nobody but God knows when the earth is going to crumble. maybe they are not tied to any faith at all, hence being lost and will believe anything that has the slightest clue of something bigger than them. maybe they have done their own 'research', see the pattern in numbers in the Quran or Bible or whatever, so they believe that they have discovered the secret message. maybe they are just being careful, so what if the world doesn't really end tomorrow? at least they tried, at least they've got nothing to lose, at least they've proposed or confessed or had a best man dolphin or written the first page of their first novel right?
i don't like it when people ridicule them. they just don't know. you don't know when is the end too right? this whole "bodoh mung kalo caye esok kiamat bodoh binge" is not the right way la. they wouldn't believe it in the first place if they believed what we believe right? so in a way if you think they're stupid, you're being arrogant thinking you're better than them. and i don't like you regardless of who you are.
2. The Deniers.
The deniers are not only those who make fun of 122112, saying "how does this work what about time zones? New Zealand please tag your apocalypse spoilers" which is really funny cos i once thought about this i mean will the whole world end simultaneously or will it be country by country as long as it's the 21st? i really enjoy these apocalypse jokes out of good humour.
but the deniers are also those who say "Don't believe it. It's not the end yet. Kiamat itu rahsia Allah, sedangkan Nabi pun tak tahu apetah lagi kita ni. mengarut je semua tu."
yes, you stay true to the teachings of Islam, but i think you should mind your wording. because you indirectly make it sound like you say the world won't end tomorrow. like you're so sure, indirectly means you are just the same as those who believe the world will end. because you're certain of something you don't know. when you say nobody knows except Allah, make sure you really know what you mean. it means you too, don't know when the world is going to end. it may not be tomorrow, and it MAY BE too.
"The end of the world? LOL"
i'm not in any way saying The Mayans were right, but here's some logic. just so you're careful with what you say. how do you know nothing will happen? after all, kiamat has a lot of phases... for all we know maybe it's the start of something, the beginning of the many events that will lead to the real armageddon. it's not like the movie 2012, the whole planet earth will be hit by meteors and the ground is gonna crack open revealing lava underneath our feet kinda stuffs. maybe it's something we don't even realize is happening, but Allah has marked the start of the last days of the earth. everyone knows that Allah alone knows about the day of destruction, but nobody knows if He will or will not let anyone know about it, right? again, not saying anything, just trying to make you see sense.
about the astronomy stuffs, they can be hidden truths or just rumours. NASA says nothing's gonna happen, but then again they don't know the only thing we do know which is no matter how good the condition of our planet is, if Allah wants something to happen nothing can stop Him. and NASA says it's impossible for the earth to reverse it's rotation, but all Muslims know it's one of the signs of doomsday. yeah that bit is creepy. scientists always wants evidence but all we need is faith. plus, even if there will be a collision of planets and whatnot, maybe disasters will happen, maybe nature will seek its revenge on us big time this time, but it doesn't necessarily mean it's going to be the end of the world. or maybe 21.12.12 means something bad will happen, not in the form of doomsday, it can mean anything symbolic. or nothing at all. wallahualam.
my point is, we never really know, right? so stop saying something will happen or something will not happen. stop saying anything you know nothing about. share the hadith, the verses, it's good as reminders but don't simply talk using your own logic. cos i'm sick of Muslims making fun of it like they are 100% sure nothing will happen when in fact they 100% know nothing. i'm sick of them thinking they know Allah's words when at the same time they take it for granted.
boleh gerenti takde pape akan jadi? beringat je dahlah. tak perlu perkecilkan apa yang dah pasti atau obsess dengan apa yang kita tak taktau lagi.
boleh gerenti takde pape akan jadi? beringat je dahlah. tak perlu perkecilkan apa yang dah pasti atau obsess dengan apa yang kita tak taktau lagi.
menyampah pulak aku tengok budak-budak bajet bijak berhujah. just because you read things on the internet and you know all the chronologies of kiamat tak perlulah sampai cakap "aku konfem seratus peratus takkan ada apa jadi, aku dah kaji." kengkadang aku nak je pape jadi biar kau terberak terkencing time tu pastu aku nak tengok muka kau hahaha.
think. we say we should be ready at all times because we don't know when the end is, if we ever get to it, if we won't, we don't know when our end is. but now when there's a prediction about when it's going to happen, we stand tall saying "naaah it's nonsense." how sure are we? and are we ready? supposedly the world ends tomorrow and we're still not prepared, how are we ever going to be prepared when there's no prediction and anytime at all, it can happen? to me it's an irony.
3. The Whatevers
they don't give a damn about anything. they are cynical, they are in denial, they live by YOLO. if tonight's their last night alive, they will choose to spend the time of their lives or just go to bed like any other day.
i believe, if the world is really going to end, everyone will go back to their belief and faith be it any religion at all because that's our fitrah. we're humans, we need to know there's something bigger than us to keep it all together. and what other times than the end of the world to feel like we could use some help over here?
and i find it beautiful, for people to unite and rely on the ultimate power.
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