tuesday with morrie

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim

Its magical how one situation can really change your perspective, your views, your opinions and your feelings at that one moment, that special time. It's a gift, and those with the bravest and purest of heart may see it, and may not, but even the seeing is a gift, special touch, from Allah.

People around me..[read: nadhira, and others] had been trying to convince me, selling me this one little book, with the title

"Tuesday with Morrie"

The first encounter.
Well, being a cynical, stereotypical person i've always have been, one look at the book and boom my mind goes "i will never read that!". Why? I, for one, until now, are not certain as to the mechanism of how that profound thought crossed my mind. Its too thin? The cover is too old fashioned? I leave it for you to speculate, to interpret and such, to get your neurons working.

Retrospective.
I still remembered an incident way back in time, 5 years ago, i think. When i, without thinking, volunteered myself to become a college student's representative. Aha! Those were the foolish times. Out if naivety? Or in the spirit of curiousness? Let it be then. Then we were asked to present a manifesto. I thought to myself. I have not much specialty, let alone looks. Why not try giving them what i know? So i decided to speak in English. Tet! When one of the other candidate heard that, he told me a secret.

"You want to talk in english? Screw that. People are intimidated, and they will never vote for you."

And i guess, since then, i've rarely used english as my speaking language. Sad, isn't it? So please, let me indulge in writing in english. Just this few articles. Thank you. I hope you enjoy and like it.

Back to the roots.
Ok, back to the book. I was surprised at how i enjoyed reading it. It was subtle, yet intriguing, like the breeze during the summer, lightly touching the skin, just nice, soothing and relaxing. Why? Because i myself are struggling with those question raised in the book.

But then, as i read, my mind just kept thinking, how all those answers given by the dear professor, are just like what our prophet Muhammad pbuh teached all this while.

"Know how you're going to die. Then only you'll learn how to live."

Wasn't that taught to us 1500 years [more or less, i can't remember] by Rasulullah? Be death oriented, that is, focus on the akhirat rather than the world so much, or, something like this,

"Pray like you're going to die tomorrow, work like you're going to live another 1000 yrs.."something like that, i can't remember where it was i read this.

But, it really gave me a new look on how things go in this world.
I'm out of words this while, because i started writing this yesterday, and now, all the idea is gone.
Oh Allah, please forgive me, please guide me..forgive us and guide us o Allah..