thoughts

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.”