Never In My Life...

...would I have my tears streaming down my own face for someone I didn't even know. But a small girl named Safiya Humaira made it. I wish her to live blissfully in the other world that we have never been. The cruel story of her life awakened my own self not to simply bursting my rage towards anyone.

Only 3 years old (was going to 4), she endured a major physical torture for almost her whole life. Just because she wasn't wanted to live on this holy world by someone, it wasn't a reason for her to be removed in an animal-like situation.

My fingers are shaking, my mind can't think for words to describe the culprit, and the tears are still overflowing through my face. The cuteness of her face managed to touch the soft side of mine. The cruel story of her life stung deep in my heart, causing it to burst and melt. I can't imagine her agony of being physically tortured, and her strength to hang on there for more than a year agonised myself.

The man who made her life ended like that should be hang to death. Adik Syafia's agony should be returned to him.

I can't write anymore...The tears will flow more and more if I continue.

Al-Fatihah to Adik Syafia Humaira. May she be put among the blessed soul.

Human Dependency to Tech and Machines

It has been 10 years since we entered the era of new millennium. We've seen a lot of developments in recent years. And destruction, so it seems. In my previous post, I wrote about why must human be lazy. This post, I'm gonna write about something that linked to the laziness.

Pardon my bad English. Though I teach people English, I still consider myself in learning process. English is my 3 rd language actually, standing behind my Malaysian (as mother tongue) and Javanese (culturally inherited, I'm basically a Javanese Malaysian comes from a Javanese cultural-based family).

The moment when human found fuel, they have become addicted to it ever since. When Henry Ford invented car, today, there are trillions of it on the road across the globe. When computer comes to life some times ago, it has been an important "friend" (friendly, also) to every single human on the earth nowadays. When internet emerged in the world of digital, it has created a phenomenon throughout the globe.

Ever since the very first technology and machine introduced to the world, human has become so addicted to them. Imagine the world today without technologies and machines. That shows our strong and tight dependency to techs and machines. We can't even live without either one of them. In fact, they made what our life now is.

What we can see now is our interactions with techs machines have become so essential and take a large part of our daily life, in which interactions rate between human is making very little decrement. We have become a tech-and-machine-addict generation, just like how drug addicts addicted to drugs.

Why Must Be Lazy?

Humans are basically lazy. I myself am a lazy person. I'm not telling you are lazy, but I maybe right. You are lazy too.

Something should be done by this laziness. Laziness will always comes first before everything. Only our willingness that drive us away from being trapped by laziness. There is no specific solution for laziness, whereas laziness actually is a mindset that can never be thrown away. Just like fear.

When we see a hardworking person, he/she is actually being driven by his/her willing, in which the willing comes from motivations; extrinsic, intrinsic, positive, negative or by each and every one of them. Or by fear itself.

Laziness comes when we are given a problem to solve. It's a matter of choice. Do it, or not at all. If we do it, then the problem will be solved. If not, the problem will still be there without nobody to deal with it. Solving problem involves thinking. This is the core of laziness: thinking. Thinking is the only thing that moves humans around. If humans think, they move. Otherwise, they don't.

Why must be lazy? Some said there are many factors. But for me, there is only one. Because people don't want to think. People who don't want to think are called "Ignorant" (whereas "stupid" is too harsh). They simply don't care what are happening around.

There's one issue: what happen to a will when a body can't go along with the will? Easy. Human body will collapse. Humans will fall asleep, they will take a nap. But what about a long sleep? That is subjective. Some people have their mind and body collapse at the same time. Resting the mind is different with resting the body. Body is a system where muscles are joint together with bones. Mind is a brain, where it controls itself and also body system. Imagine how hard our mind is working. Some people just want to extend their rest, in which resulted an over-rested system. Over-rested system will take a longer time to warm up and of course, longer time to pick up. Then humans will lag, and laziness comes striking our will.

Helping a human in curing his/her laziness needs a hell of a time. Laziness won't go away easily. Motivations should come along, to the client and also to the motivator. I am actually trying to help myself and also some pupils of mine to keep up the motivation to learn Mathematics. Since Mathematics is essential to the pupils, I found Maths is also important to me. The problem here is, how to put out these pupils' laziness? They simply don't want to think a solution for each problem given to them. Instead, they are relying 10000% (I mean "one thousand") on me to solve the problems. If I was helping them 10000%, then I am ruining them. They will keep their laziness at bay, and always hoping that there will be a person who pick their hands to walk along their life. Most Malaysian children are experiencing this I'm sure. I fear that their future will be tainted by "answers" only, rather than "how we could come to the conclusion".

They Come In Pairs

Every time we deal with a thing we have the tendency to look at the positive side of the thing. Why? Because the positives always please you and make your life easier and happier. But there's negative side that comes along with the positive and please don't forget it. There's often a catch behind a simple thing, and there's sometimes a reward behind a difficult thing.

Every single thing in the world comes in pairs -- that includes human being. When there's good thing, bad thing will always tag along it. If you tell me everything you find in your life is pleasing, you're a big, fat liar. You talk about the walk of your life that stepping on others' efforts. You never see someone who will walk over you some times later.

When positive comes, it needs negative to keep it alive. Just like a battery. Can you imagine a battery without negative? Am I amusing you with this example? Hold your laugh, and look at a battery first. Look at your right, then your left. Look at your food. Look at the earth. Look at every single creature that exists in this world.

When you cook something, what do you put inside the dish? Everything is sugar, or everything is salt? Will your cook taste as good as others' cook when all you use is sugar or salt? Never. So does our life. Our life won't be meaningful if we ALWAYS prefer positive. There's negative that you can't skip, where the negative actually checks and balances your life.

The God created everything in the world in pairs -- from male comes female, from good comes bad, from happiness comes sadness, from ruler comes opposition, from positive comes negative. We should never stand on one part of a thing that favours us, because it will eventually turn its back against us. Never blame the negative part of your life because one day it will turn out to be your saviour.

Don't let our 'favourite' positive eclipsing our 'hated' negative. Don't ever do that because it will influence your judgment towards a thing, causing you to be a paranoid. They meant to give you a tasteful life, or so. Bear in mind that the God created everything for a reason. That's why you are here in this world, for a reason.