Category: life
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Heritage
Being risen by Christian family will greater your possibilities being a Christian, don’t you agree? Afi Nihaya Faradisa bring an idea about how religion comes to our life and I barely agree with her perspective. Since we’re a baby, some of our parents seduced us with some religious knowledge, they put it into our mind, remind us that we…
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Being Intelligent yet Wise
Some of us think we’re intelligence. It may been proven in how high we scored exam, how well read we’re on different topics. And how highly regarded our profession is. Having this proof of intelligence gives us supreme confidence. So much confidence that we sometimes cannot see that there is a difference between intelligence and wisdom.…
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The Purpose Of Life Is Not Happiness
For the longest time, I believed that there’s only purpose of life: And that is to be happy. Right? Why else go through all the pain and hardship? It’s to achieve happiness in some way. And I’m not the only person who believed that. In fact, if you look around you, most people are pursuing…
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Pray All You Want
Pray all you want – heaven can’t hear you. It’s not going to stop the winter because you are cold, and it’s not going to make the earth smaller because you don’t want to walk so far. You pray for rain and it rains, but your prayer has nothing to do with it. Sometimes you…
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Did You See How Poor People Can Be?
One day a very wealthy father took his son on a trip to the country for the sole purpose of showing his son how it was to be poor. They spent a few days and nights on the farm of what would be considered a very poor family. After their return from the trip, the…
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Seeing Another Point of View
People don’t always see things in the same way and understand how they can see things from someone else’s point of view. It includes a poem ‘Standing in Your Shoes‘ and describes a scenario where two girls fall out because they don’t see each other’s point of view. Story of a girl with her…
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How can I Make Myself Better Each Day
Become More Observant. Notice everything that surrounds you. The world is full of examples, ideas, words, wisdom, mistakes and experiences. Pay attention to details and use them to your own benefit. Collect Ideas. Ideas and thoughts tend to evaporate from your mind too fast. Try to capture them before it is too late. Ideally, write…
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Knowledge, Experience, Creativity
Someday your teacher said, F = m.a where a is vector of acceleration and m is a mass. Or it must be P = ρgh, p = m.v, W = ΔE blah blah blah. They are called knowledge and since we know it, we should able to create something. For example, from the second Newton equation, we can know many…
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Sendiri atau Bersama-sama
Pada saat sekolah dasar, saya ingat terdapat istilah yang sangat sering muncul di buku pelajaran kewarganegaraan, yaitu zoon politicon. Selain ditulis dalam buku, istilah ini pun sangat sering disebutkan dalam banyak pembicaraan di dunia sosial. Istilah tersebut merupakan salah satu karakteristik utama manusia, manusia adalah makhluk sosial yang hidup bermasyarakat. Karakter tersebut berarti bahwa manusia tidak…