Good Words Go Along the Way

I went to a ceremony in rememberance of the birth of The Prophet of Muhammad yesterday. There was a ceramah at the ceremony. Instead of telling about the birth of Prophet Muhammad (like the ones that we always pay attention to during the day), he went to tell what He told one of his friends (whose name I couldn't recall) about what makes a good Muslim.

According to the ceramah, there were seven things that maketh a good Muslim. But what captured my attention the most was the 5th. It mentioned that Muslim should speak out only good words from themselves, regardless of to whom they are speaking to. That brought me to a deep, real life-related thinking.

All this while, we humans (regardsless of colours, races, religions etc.) have been speaking out bad words. Not to tell you that I'm a perfect 10 person on speaking out good words. Every before and now, I spat, cursed, yelled, nagged (the list goes on - you name it) to a lot of people. When realizing this, I was instantly thinking about how they reacted to all the spits and curses I made against them.

During my secondary school period, I was known for the one that spat and cursed a lot. At that time, only God knew how far I went to when spitting out those bad words. I spat for everything and cursed everyone that went against my will. But when the times gone by, I started to feel that I should hold my self back more in any situation.

Now it's been almost 10 years that I left school. I even went to an anger management course to deal with my anger and spitting spree. After completed the course, I found myself in a bit of relief. I learned how to be a model professional - keeping the anger and hatred aside, rather than bursting them out to nowhere.

Well, we have reasons to be mad, and out of the blue, spitting and cursing follow afterwards. This may result in serious physical abuse caused by anger, spits and curses. And if we didn't realize, we tend to turn to something or someone weaker than us to do those destructive physical abuse. If we turn to somebody, that may cause a pointless fight. Fight for nothing - just to revert the anger, spits and curses spat.

10 years after leaving the school proved to be vital to me dealing with my bad habit. I wonder what happened to the youngsters today, especially primary and middle schoolers, in which, they tend to use bad words almost over everything. Not to tell that they should being courteous ("berbudi bahasa" in Malay Language). I just want to see them speaking good words not just to their peers, even to everyone else.

I am really curious right now, what caused them speaking out bad words, instead of good words? What influenced them to do so? When we put more depth in our thought, we, the elders, should be held accountable, right?

First Blog for a Master

This is the first blog I created for myself. Though I learned about blogging years ago, I simply didn't have the time (or maybe I just ignored it for the fact that I'd gain nothing out of it) to create one. It was because my officemate that I created this one, just to show him how to create a blog.

Well, this is the first posting. But more will come in short future. I myself am a computer savvy, but wasting too much time on the net reading others' blogs, forums or just playing online games such as Utopia etc.

Until then, wait for my next posts... :)