Who are we to show off?
Holiday has started its gear. Plans are made, whether they
are executable or not, that is another question. I haven’t been blogging for
quite sometimes. So I think this holiday is a good start for me to hit the
resume button after a very loooooong pause. I do have tones of things running
through my head; things to be written but, the will never came. Being an
observer, I do notice that I am a plain ignorant. But something had happened. And
suddenly I realize that life is too short, very short indeed to be wasted.
Thing that we have are actually minimal to be bragged off. It can be gone at
any time. Albeit we are ready or not.
Take this one thing for an example. Things that we share
online. Sometimes we do not realize, what we intended to share with others;
whether through Facebook, blogs or any other mediums are actually encouraging
us to be arrogant or ‘riak’. At first, it was just a sharing but as people started
to praise and pour in good comments, we will start to have the urge to post
more, write more, share more all the good things that happen to us, our
achievements, our lucks and so on. It includes me as well. Do we think we have
so much that we can brag?
Watching the news, reading from various news portals, I
couldn’t help but think that sometimes we feel blessed that Allah has granted
us with many marvelous things and yet we forget to say Alhamdulillah. People on
the other sides are suffering, endless wars that torn a country, natural
disasters ravaging beautiful landscapes
and yet we here are busy showing off of our oh-not-so-much lucks and
achievements. I write this entry as I’m still mourning at the loss of my
colleague. It happened so fast. She never bragged about her life plus her
simplicity always awed me. I can never be like her, but I do realize, what we
have today is nothing, not worth to be bragged. What we can do is always say
Alhamdulillah for all the good things that happen and Insha Allah the good
things will remain. Insha Allah. Insha Allah.
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