Life is always full of ups and down. Sometimes you’re in and sometimes you’re out. At which point do you really value your life meaningful? Being successful? Getting married? Have some awesome jobs? Getting rich and famous? Renown psychologist all over the world tells us that the recipe to a great life is living your life the best you could as positive as you can be, and honesty is always the best policy. That’s what they say. How do you view your life? What does it really means to you? Here is some list that I think of what my life it’s made about. Feel free to read and think it through; don’t forget to add your own!
Life is about making choices:
Every day is a constant tug-of-war. You always get pull between countless need and desire, inside out your heart and all around you. Every single thing in your life seems to require special attention. ‘Does my hair look nice today? I need to study extra 3 hours today to make up for my loss yesterday, otherwise I won’t get 5 for colloq next time. I wonder what I should cook for dinner today.’ That kind of attention, but tell me, does life really that shallow? If you’re in over your head, that’s it. No more sweet life for you. Welcome to hell. Then, what should I do?
[asy-syams,91: 8-10] – maka Dia mengilhamkan kepadanya jalan kejahatan dan ketakwaan, sungguh beruntung org yang menyucikan jiwanya itu, dan sungguh rugi org yg mengotorkannya.
Your life is in your hand. You are the one who can make it prospers with the real goal enlisted by God (khalifah and ibadah) or meaningless life. Its all depend to what your heart believes and truly desire and of course to ‘where you want to go’. As what
Life is a gift versus responsibility from God:
Actually it’s a little bit of both. Human being and all other living things in the world didn’t just show up just like that, there is a Creator for all of it. The way you view your purpose of life stems from what you believe in. Our heart is the place that needed to be purified, cleanse and renew so that it doesn’t clogged with plenty dark spots of mungkar we made each day. Be scared of the ferocious fire waiting for us in hell. Allah is the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful, and the Most Forgiving but don’t forget azab Allah itu juga amat keras sifatnya.
Life is a journey of learning, loving, appreciating and giving:
Life is not a thing to be taken for granted. And certainly not all the things that makes it up. Our family, our almost equally felt everyday experiences of sadness and happiness, our money, time and energy spent for something we craved or need upon, the joy of seeing things, smells it and touch it, etc. The list can go on for as long as you live. The endless number of nikmat that Allah gives us makes me realize how fragile our life is. We are nothing if compared to Him. Who are we to defied The Almighty? He creates everything that is here on earth (or outside of it) for us to use and He gives us akal to think, and nafs to enjoy and fight for. Despite all the glories that were give to us human being, look how we behaved to pay for it? Endless meaningless war solely to fulfill certain people’s agenda, food crisis everywhere you turn your head to, incest and homosexual which suddenly become the ‘new hottest trend’, and fighting over small superficial thing such as money, job and woman.
The truth is, if we really do understand that all men are equal (what differs them are only the iman and taqwa) and Allah is the source of everything and only to Him we need to serve and praise; there is no stopping us from achieving what we want from life, there’s no one to be scared of except Him and there should be no evil doing all around the world. All we need to do is just try our best in whatever we do and try living life the best way teaches by God through His Prophet and the Holy Quran (the best manual of life left for us, don’t you agree?). It sound almost hard to achieve but nothing is impossible once we set our mind to do it, works hard for it, and ask Allah to grant it (doa and tawakal).
After all, I do believe that optimism and bersangka baik helps me to get through the pitfall of life (plus His guidance too). I learn my way through what life has to offers. If only you open your heart and look for the real truth. Never afraid to fall down or stumble in life, as long as you can pick yourself right up. Just remember: a turtle may live for hundreds of years because it is well protected by its shell, but it can only moves forward when it stick its head out.
Good luck in finding your way in life! Live it up so that you have no regrets later on.
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