The Present, the Future and In Between.

There are a few things that are for sure in this world. Death is sure, heaven and hell are sure, judgment day is for sure and a few others but there are plenty other things that we don’t know for certain. For example, we don’t know if we’ll ever see tomorrow or the next few hours or the next few minutes or a few seconds after this. So, why do we, human, plan as though we’re definitely sure of what’s going to happen next.

My English teacher once said, ‘Don’t take things for granted”. Can’t agree with her more I guess. Normally, as in most of the time, we get too comfortable with ‘happy times’. Like when we’re doing well at something, we have the feeling that we’ll always be great without any dip in form. Life’s not that way. It’s like what people say, life is like a wheel. Sometimes we’re on top and sometimes we’re down below. Making someone or some other party as our scapegoat isn’t really the best way to deal with the down-the-wheel period. After all, only losers make excuses.

As far as I know, people often learn from failures more than they could ever benefit from success. So, instead of pointing fingers, why not we look in the mirror and ask ourselves where did we do wrong. Simplest example, if we (in this case: I) don’t get mumtaz(excellent), why didn’t I try harder? Why didn’t I spend more time on my studies rather than wasting my time on numerous futile matters? Maybe, just maybe, the question was too hard or the professors were too strict (stingy) or the University purposely don’t want us to pass the exam so that we’ll have to repeat the year and pay a year more fees but why not we blame ourselves on not making those difficult questions easy for ourselves? Why did we give the professors to utilize that strictness? People will try hard to bring us down, don’t give them the opportunity to do so.

We got to prepare ourselves mentally and physically just in case we face failures. No one stays at the top forever. Just look at how Libya’s and Egypt’s dictators, after 40 odd years, the former, and 30 plus years, the latter, they were eventually ousted. We can’t expect life to be easy all the way. Troubles and problems will stand in our way to success and if we stop just because of one tiny barrier then we’ll never know what might’ve awaited us behind that barrier. Dreams are beautiful but life…? Well, not so much but life is true and dreams are just dreams unless you, I mean we, try to turn it into a bright future.

Speaking about future, many of us regards a good future as a life with lots of money or living happily with our future wife and kids, or being a leader of certain nation or at least a big business company. Well let’s ask ourselves one simple question. If we try so hard, day and night 24/7 studying for exams or working to earn some amount of money or having a beautiful wife to build a happy family for a life aged 60-70 years give or take, how much effort do we put on an eternity life? A life without death when you either go to this blessed place or that cursed place. If we can sacrifice our break time for work, why can’t we take a few minutes from our work time for our daily prayers so that we could pray right on time and not at the eleventh hour? If we can spend the whole night reading books without sleeping just for the sake of getting good results in our examination, why can’t we wake up a few minutes before fajar for tahajud?

P/S: I’m about to enter my third year as a medical student. Simple task for you, PRAY FOR MY SUCCESS ^_^

~Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery,

If we don’t remember Allah the Almighty, our life will be in misery. ~