When will be the last time?
By Aainaa Sofea, Head of Early Years & Language Kinderlabz

 

Do you ever feel like social media is spying on you? Well, I do.

Last weekend, I was idling on TikTok when I came across a piece of content that I genuinely relished. It was an English-speaking practice video where a paragraph of text would scroll across the screen for you to read aloud.

And because social media seems to know everything about me, once I started reading, more and more of these videos kept surfacing on my feed!

Honestly, I didn’t mind. I had time to spare, and I enjoyed reading them in between cute cat videos and those AI-generated movie clips. *grin

Have you noticed that AI-generated movies have become quite a phenomenon these days? Some of them are so well made that they almost feel better than real movies!

Then came another English practice video. This time, the text said:

There is always a last time for everything.
Ironically, you will never know when that last time will be.
You will never know when it is your last dinner with your parents,
You will never know when it is the last vacation with your best friend,
You won’t even know when it is the last time you drive your favourite car,
So, cherish every moment in your life.
Say “thank you” and “I’m sorry” more often. Tell them that you love them.
Because we never know when we will have the opportunity to do it again.

That was it.

The moment I read the very first sentence, I broke down.

Ever since I got married and moved out of my parents’ house, I’ve missed them every single day. Going through my daily routine without them still feels foreign, even now. Reading those words made me feel incredibly emotional.

At that moment, I wished I could start my car, drive back to their house, and embrace them as tightly as I could.

But it was already 1:00 a.m.

So, I had no choice but to hold back my emotions and stop myself from crying like a little kid. I remember I prayed to God to bless them with good health and long live.

Cherish every moment in life.

Now, I understand those words more clearly than ever.

As Meryl Streep once said:

“Life is precious, and when you’ve lost a lot of people, you realise each day is a gift.”

Every moment we spend with the people we love is invaluable. Once that moment passes, we may never have the opportunity to experience it again.

If you’re reading this and you haven’t told your loved ones “I love you” today, please do.

You never know when today becomes the last time.

 

Key Vocabulary

• Idling – Spending time without doing anything important or productive.
• Relished – Enjoyed something very much.
• Surfacing – Beginning to appear or become noticeable.
• Phenomenon – A remarkable event or something that becomes widely popular.
• Opportunity – A chance or favourable moment to do something.
• Broke down – Became overwhelmed with emotion and started crying.
• Foreign – Strange, unfamiliar, or not yet comfortable.
• Embrace – To hold someone closely in your arms; to hug.
• Cherish – To love, value and appreciate someone or something deeply
• Invaluable – Extremely precious or valuable; impossible to replace.

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