Ramadhan: Pemahamanku Tentang Puasa / Me And Fasting

Setiap tahun, semua muslim di penjuru dunia akan mengalami apa yang kata mereka sebagai bulan penuh berkah dan pintu ampunan. Bulan untuk bisa semakin mendekatkan diri dengan sang pencipta, dengan menahan berbagai keinginan dan rasa.  

Terutama di Indonesia dan negara-negara muslim lainnya, Ramadhan merupakan bulan yang sangat ditunggu-tunggu dengan berbagai macam perayaan untuk menyambut kedatangannya. Namun, terlepas dari hingar bingarnya, aku mencoba memahami makna puasa yang merupakan inti dari Ramadhan itu sendiri.



















Berpuasa adalah menahan keinginan. Apapun keinginan itu. Mulai dari masalah fisik (makan, minum, dsb) sampai kebiasaan yang tidak kita sadari tidak baik bagi kita (gossiping, too much watching TV, marah,
dll). Intinya, menahan. Dan seringkali, kita tidak sabar untuk menahan sesuatu dari dalam diri kita.

Adanya dorongan untuk melakukan apapun merupakan hal yang wajar yang dimiliki setiap manusia. Entah itu dorongan untuk kebaikan atau sebaliknya. Inilah sebanarnya yang harus kita hadapi selama berpuasa. Personally, pemahaman bahwa di bulan puasa setan-setan dibelenggu memang ada benarnya. Bahwa apapun yang kita lakukan tidak ada hubungannya dengan setan, entah setan secara harafiah maupaun sebagai sebuah konsep. Kalaupun memang iya, tetap saja, tindakan kita adalah manifestasi dari keputusan yang kita buat. Dari ego yang ada dalam diri kita masing-masing. Lagipula, buat yang atheist, pemahaman tentang setan juga sangat sulit untuk diterima.

Secara keseluruhan, puasa adalah bentuk pengendalian diri. Dari keinginan-keinginan, dorongan ego. Dan, personally, IMHO, esensi puasa tidak hanya berlaku selama bulan Ramadhan, tapi selama kita hidup.

Selamat berpuasa :)
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If It's Not Bad, It's Worse!

The Weather!

I mean, oh my goodness, how could you adapt to the hardly-friendly-region called Malacca waters (Batam island, Singapore, and the surrounding)?

















You know what, this morning was just shiny like there would be summer this whole mid-year. It's 7.30 in the morning when I was about to go to work and I had no worry about the(sudden)rain. I knew that my jeans would be just dried by the time I went back from work and I was pretty sure they (the jeans) were fine during the dry-in-the-sun time. But now I realize that the worry should be there like all the time.

I was having emails and queries to reply when one in a room suddenly said "Oh, it's rainy hard out there!" Then I looked out the window and I was like "What?! My jeans! My jeans! My jeans!". But all I could do was just looking back at the beloved-always-rushing monitor (as I had to) and "Okay, I love my job! I love my job! Gotta love my job though I love my jeans even more!"

I mean, you gotta be ready for the WORST thing can be when you're living in Malacca waters like Batam or Singapore. The weather is no compromise at all. Can you figure out how to deal with the temperature from 34 degrees (95F) over the day to drop to 25 degrees (77F) over the night? Not to mention the crazy speedy wind and storms to come anytime they want. Seriously! I mean, I often saw the hurricane news in television and it looked creepy and now I'm like having it all, all the days. Moreover, the rain whatsoever spread out like hell. I mean, when it's so hard rainy whatsoever in one part of the island, the other parts (even if it's 2 miles away) are just fine! 

I have no idea whether it's due to the over-blown-up global warming or it's just supposed to be that way as daily-tiny-stranded-islands's-weather. Overall, you need more than just
weather channel on if you are dumped off in the area like Malacca waters. If it's not bad, it's worse!


PS: I'm worrying my jeans!


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Who Is Your Truly Mr. Right?

Heart beats faster, your world turns brighter, and you're getting hard (sometimes). That's when you start falling in love with someone (you believe) you can share your world with. The thing is, IS IT?

Well,
We ever fell in love, if not, often. Just like I did.
Every time I fall in love with someone I believe the person is just the best for me. I'm drowning into the deep love fantasy, hypnotized by the beauty of romance's colors, and paralyzed by the spell of misleading whispers of desire.

Love is when we're falling in love, most of us believe it is.
However, love is, also, when we're breaking up.
It pleases, and it hurts, in the end. That 's love.




In every relationship we make, we believe that he is the right man, she is meant to be with us like till the end of time. All of us are trying to make our own stories, and we lead it into the happy ending one. Sadly, sometimes, the fact doesn't say so. We have to fight for it like it is the only option and we make ourselves work so much harder on it. When it comes to an end, we're flipping upside down like on a roller-coaster, whining, crying, blaming, anything. This is the hardest part we're up against but we have to. We deny the truth, we get depressed, we get mad, then we finally see.

Is she the right person? Is he my Mr. Right? As ain't nothing's going right then sometimes.

So, love's rolling and the ending is flipping like hell with or without anybody's intention.
  
What should we do then?

Maybe some of us keep on looking for the one and only Mr. Right, deploy all the maneuvers to fight for it or, maybe, we just roll the dice instead. The latter is just the right way to do, personally, I believe. Since, there's something out of our control. It doesn't mean that I'll give upon love I should fight for. No, it doesn't. I just wanna say that I don't wanna let myself get blinded and hard to move on merely due to the faith we've made and to-self-enforcement. Just be real. That's the deal.

So, who is your Mr. Right? Do we need him actually?

:)
  


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