If I could sit down with Anwar…this is what I will tell him.

Brother… it's time to go.

Think not too much about the glory days of the past. Think not too much about potentials and dreams unfulfilled. We must think first about what we must and can do to make our country heal and be better again. If we do not, who else will?

Let us, in our old age, show wisdom. Let us, in our old age, show that we are noble enough to put our country and others before us. Let us be wise enough to understand and accept that our time to lead, is past.

The present is for those who are able to shoulder the onerous burden and responsibility of taking a torn and tattered nation back to its glory days that you and I have been fortunate enough to have been part of. And our responsibility today, if they will allow us, is to guide them and remind them of those days.

These days, I do not want anyone to tell me what I can and cannot do. What I must and must not do. I live life at my own pace, unencumbered by the expectations of my peers or anyone else. Maybe it is time you think about living a life where YOU and your family, are the most important people in that life…not others.

Yes, the lives we lived have been different but when all is said and done, age and death is a great leveler of people. This year, already, three of our comrades are gone. Ali, Kemp, and Chubby…and last Sunday when I was at my wife’s graveside…I heard myself tell her that I will be by her side in five years' time.

It is a sobering thought when we think about death, but death is also a part of life. I wonder if these thoughts are also on your mind in those times when you are alone and able to think of yourself, Azizah, and your family, rather than of others.

Do not tell me that Tun is 95. Just tell me that there is not much time left for you to make your peace with him. To make your peace, not because of any wrong either of you has made to the other…but surely the good times you spend with each other far outweigh the bad. Surely you can find many things to talk about with Tun in your old days instead of politics? Go say it now, while you still can.

Reformasi and being an integral part of making PRU14 happen will have to be your most cherished moments in life, if not in politics. Those achievements are yours to keep. History, without doubt, will have a place for you in its annals. You have reasons enough to believe that Anwar Ibrahim has done much for Malaysian and Malaysia.

And now the end nears.

Leave before you are no longer welcome. Leave before you are no longer needed. Leave while they still want you to stay.

Surely your greatest time is yet to come….and that is to bask in the glory of having a nation and its people, be grateful to you for allowing that nation and its people to move forward towards the future that you have done so much to lay the foundation for, in the recent past.

And if the Force is with us, and we are victorious at PRU15, maybe we can ask Nurul or Rafizi to talk to the powers that be in the PH government, and get someone to stamp NFA on that arrest warrant in my name.

Then we, of Class 64, can again be together one more time in our old age to talk of past glories and the present PH government in which we all had a part in making happen. Amen.