
The Real Kitou Aya. (Pictures from her diary that she wrote since 15. The diary was sold in million copies and is the main reference for the drama series ONE LITRE OF TEARS)

Today, I found my ways through the lecture notes of vector calculus. Next, week I will be having two exams; Introduction to Petroleum Geoscience and Vector Calculus. Late in the evening, my focus seems to fade. I tried feew refreshments yet failed to get my mood again. It was raining heavily outside. Wind and thunder work themselves, instilling fear in the hearts of pitiful souls along their path. Suddenly, I felt sad. I do not know why, but sadness of some sort cloud my emotion and mind.
I had to stop and break away from my laptop. I have tried listening to music, and even watch a few videos to regenerate my fighting spirit but nothing worked. So, I went to the door with my wallet and keys along; I need to eat. That, is what I usually do when stress comes in. (Actually I'm really hungry because I skipped my lunch and breakfast.)
At, 5.30 pm in the evening I am not really sure weather it is lunch or dinner. As I was about to pay for my food, I was looking at the cloudy sky and sadness once again burried deep in my emotion. What is this?
The lady casher uttered the price. Yosh! Why it is so expensive? I asked. She said that is the price. Nothing more, nothing less. Then she asked, how much is my scholar per month? I said RM 500. I thought she was trying to makign fun of my like " You got RM 5oo per month, still argue about the price ka?"... I was annoyed initially but then she said something that changed my view of myself, what I have and what others have for their own. " You are lucky, my salary is less then your scholar".
My heart sunk. I was speechless and deep down I pitied her. Although, it was said lightly, but somehow it stroked my soul completely. The lady in front of me, of 4 decades of life, definitely have a family to take care of and yet her salary is less that my monthly scholar? She lived. She survived. She can. And the most important of all she values what she has and never complained about it. AM I NOT BEING THANKFUL ENOUGH?
“Mereka (Para Jin) bekerja untuk Sulaiman sesuai dengan apa
yang dikehendakinya, di antaranya (membuat) gedung-gedung yang tinggi,
patung-patung, piring-piring yang (besarnya) seperti kolam dan periuk-periuk
yang tetap (berada di atas tungku). Bekerjalah wahai keluarga Daud untuk
bersyukur kepada Allah. Dan sedikit sekali dari hamba-hamba-Ku yang bersyukur”.
(Saba’:13)
Was this the sadness that I felt? The sadness that I see, only in myself, only about myself. That I was not being thankful of what I have. Loving family, caring friends, and a comfortable life. That is probably the sadness that I felt.
At my desk, back from the cafe, I tried to find something made of sadness that I can remember. That I can learn from. So that I can understand unfortunate people and realize the things that I have. As I surfed through DC++, I say a folder named One litre of tears. I remembered my friends persuading me to watch this drama series, but back then I kinda not like it. Now, I felt that I must take a glimpse at it. I know that this story is very sad through my friends stories and comments.
So, I randomly downloaded the 5th episode. Here, Aya, the diseased character, has started to experience the effect of her illness. She began to lost her ability to walk. What touched me was the end part of it where Aya confessed to her siblings who have no idea that her disease is incurable. Her youger sister, expressed her feeling that she do not know what to react.
She was shocked by the confession and her hopes for her eldest sister to recover was shattered. She really do not know how to react on this but her father gave me the words that I will never forget ( I hope).
Their father replied. It is easy. What you have to do is very easy. He then asked, what we do when your friends are in trouble. We lend them a helping hand. It is same here, we are a family. We help each other.
I was moved by this phrase. Yes, we help people in trouble. Especially our family members. By studying we are helping ourselves, our family and our friends. So, minna san gambatte kudasai!
Here I sharing the OST lyric for One litre of tears.
On the opposite coast of sadnessIs something called a smile
On the opposite coast of sadnessis something called a smile
But before we can go there,is there something we’re waiting for?
In order to chase our dreams, we can’t have a reason to run away
We’ve got to go, to that far away summer’s day
If we find it tomorrow, we can’t sigh
Because like a boat that opposes the streamwe have to walk straight on
In a place worn down by sadness something called a miracle, is waiting
Yet we are still searchingfor the sunflower that grows at the end of spring
The warrior who awaits the morning lightbefore he can clasp it with red nails, his tears glitter and fall
Even if we’ve grown used to lonelinessonly relying on the light of the moon
We have to fly away with featherless wingjust go foward, just a little further
As the rainclouds breakthe wet streets sparkling
Although it brings only darkness
A powerful, powerful lighthelps push us to walk on
KEPADA ALLAH KU BERHARAP...AGAR TULISAN INI BERFAEDAH DAN MENDAPAT GANJARAN DARIPADA-NYA.