As the end of year drawing near, both lunar and solar, Hijriah and Gregorian, we are preparing of the future that lies before us. This year is so rich with global shocking news: US Election, financial crisis, Pakistan bombing, Mumbai Hostage, etc, etc. It gives doubt but at the same time a slight hope. Thus, we also start listing our individual plans for 2009: Will I have a promotion? Will a get a new job after being laid off from my old company? God, oil price have decreased a lot, it is impossible to get more bonus next year….Can I still take holiday this year? Hmmm, I’d better save more cash than spending.......
We, as human, tend to focus on what happen next, and worry about what happen in the future. We often forget that the future is built on the past, and it is necessary to prepare our future by taking time to look back, learn from the past.
We, as human, tend to be carried away by success and afraid of failures. We expect joy and try stay away from sorrow as much as we can. Nevertheless, many great successes are result from capability of learning in failures. And how we could appreciate happiness without experiencing sorrow?
Our past, be it good times and be it bad times, provides us the opportunity to enrich ourselves. It comes in a sinusoidal cycle of circle, no starting point and no end. We could imagine as if this universe is a classroom, and all of us are student that keep on learning in dimension of time without beginning and without an end. Past and Future are integrated into a full infinite cycle and “Present” is the balancing point where we weave our future based on our past experience.
“I am not afraid of tomorrow for I have seen yesterday and I love today”
William Allen White
Wish you a happy, thoughtful, and enlightening Hijriah 1430……….and Gregorian New Year 2009………
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