It’s okay, this strom will pass

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like it always does I don’t know, but our day isn’t very good. There’s flooding in every direction, and all we can do is nothing except pray pray to my Allah to make this go away. Pray to Allah so that my family and other people not only feel safe but really are safe. And I keep wondering about everyone how they eat, how they bathe, and what they do about their clothes.

I’m really afraid of everything of tomorrow, of the next day, of the days ahead. I also have so many things to do, but suddenly my to-do list means nothing in this situation. Because our neighbor from another boarding house came to seek shelter in our room. So I just hope really hope that this won’t last long, that it won’t suffocate us, and that we won’t keep hearing horror and screams from other people.

Because I know and I must believe that the Allah who sent this disaster is the same Allah who will help calm everything down.

I have to believe that everything will be okay, will be fine, will be good in the end. And everyone will return to their homes.

But suddenly, I’m not so sure about my volunteer activity. I’m afraid I’ll be stuck in one place, and I’ve never, ever been able to tell my parents or my family about my situation. So I’m scared that I might die, that I might feel so hopeless that I won’t allow anyone to come close to me.

I can’t let myself be weak or vulnerable, because that’s not who I am. I can’t be someone who hands my life over to others or hopes that someone will rescue me.

Because right now, everyone is struggling, everyone is falling apart, everyone is sick, and everyone is thinking about themselves and I can’t blame them for that. It’s our nature to think about our own lives before others.

So please, please, please stay safe and keep your faith so we can get through all of this with patience, even though I know that’s the hardest thing to do right now.

We feel the terror, but we’re still safe.

This is my note during the flood in Aceh (26 Nov 2025). As boarding students we were really trapped flooded everywhere, people were evacuating, and we couldn’t go out because the roads around us were submerged. Until now, there are still no basic supplies in East Aceh. And everything is so expensive. But you know what? There are always things to be grateful for.

During the six days of flooding, food became scarce, the electricity went out, the signal disappeared, and clean water for bathing was completely gone. We had to collect rainwater, share food, and go to nearby residents just to take a shower.

But Alhamdulillah, we still had food. Everyone else was evacuating, but we stayed at the boarding house and still had some food supplies. When the flood began to recede, we finally went out, tried to reach a well to wash our clothes because our clean clothes were almost gone. And when the water went down even more, we tried to go home—and an uncle, a very kind man, helped us. He gave us food and helped us find a truck so we could go home.

Ya Allah, there’s always something good in life, isn’t there? Even though we can’t deny that in situations like this, crimes also increase but still, there is good even in bad times.

We still had rice to eat, even though we couldn’t cook with a rice cooker and had to use a steamer. It was okay. I even thought that maybe Allah is training us like this so that if something like this happens again in the future, we’ll be prepared.

Wow, Maa Shaa Allah, right? And guys, please stay safe everyone, especially the people in Aceh.

Source: Medium/julia

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