Family car
rides and heart to heart talks are the best bonding periods I could ever ask
for. Something inspired me today on my way home. Maybe it is more of a reminder
that life is actually that beautiful after all. The theory I came out is a
collective reminder that I had for the past two months.
Graduation
show was amazing and then it was my graduation day, now we are all waiting for
the day to serve the country as servicemen are soon approaching. Not forgetting
the beautiful people along the way that I humbly stumbled upon when I took up a
part-time retail job. People who came by and go also spiced up that emotional
aspect for the route I am in. Falling in love was totally unexpected. All that
in a few months is actually a lot to take in if I do sit and think about it.
But what
makes this thing we call “life” beautiful is that, it felt like everything was
pre-planned. Somehow. Things do turn out ugly or what not but cliché as it
sounds, things are falling to its place.
I am a
proud Muslim living through the holy month of Ramadhan trying my best to pick
up skills that would help me to gain strength in my religious part of life or
even put me back on the righteous track. A friend reminded me that, “balance
between both spiritual and secular world must meet equilibrium”. Any individual,
who meets these criteria, is able or given the opportunity to live life to its
fullest.
Really?
Personally before I got that reminder, I feel that, it is self-fulfillment that is the key or maybe the
only factor to allow any individual to feel or think that he/she has achieved
optimum living. If you feel that achieving a certain goal would make you a
better person in the spectrum of beings you are in, go. Run for it.
However
saying so, I believe that it works vice versa if your expectations of how “life”
should be or what you could be in “life” is taken down a notch, maybe that “life”
we are all thinking about right now as we read this would not turn out so bad
after all.
Does that
mean I don’t have to actually work hard in life to live to its fullest
potential? Perhaps so.
“You have
to use what god has given you, your talents and skills that you picked up in
your studies. From then on, work smart.” A direct translation what my parents
would tell me in our conversations in the car when I start pondering what my
life could become. “Stay happy with what you do and money will roll in.” I
remember Adam Khoo mentioned this in one of his self-improvement books too.
Easy said I guess but we will see.
As I am
writing this, I finally understand and able to come out with a sketchy theory why we need to fully meet our needs for both
spiritual and non-spiritual world. Sanity. To keep us sane. To cut us from our
busy schedules to reconnect to what god has left us after the dinosaurs died.
To reconnect with our spirit and other human beings. On the other hand, work,
responsibilities you hold, National Service and deadlines are all examples of
what I feel pre-planned goals that is set by our elites. To make sure our human
race moves forward and not stays stagnant.
I am only writing this to remind myself to relook at my expectations. To make sure I have the
best of both worlds so that I would be in my best form of mentality to face
anything! Insyallah.
“Baby steps
my friend.”
