I have to admit that i miss the old of me recently. It's quite strange to have this kind of feeling, but once you realized that you are changing to someone else that you think "that-was-not-me", then you will start thinking you are losing yourselves. And the worst part is, it has changed into something like you don't prefer, as being easily negative in any certain situation, emotional at almost time, and cannot bear for any hard/stressful moment. You just like want to simply go out from there, or much more crazier like screaming to each of those to go away like if they can just simply go away like people did.
This is also significant to us that we have been pressurized from surrounding which at last turn out ourselves slowly without we realized. At the end, we just keep blaming on ourselves for anything what we have done or we have chosen, discriminate ourselves from people, inferior to each of single things and cannot see any positivity for any kind situation. These sounds too unmotivated, isn't? When i've read my previous post here most of them are too emotional and i start realized i lost my perspective.
I missed the old me – the one who always has a back up plan for anything, always wanted to try new things fearlessly, not easily cried nor even lose appetite for simple issues, enjoy in every single moment had gone through in live excitedly. I still remember how i felt all of those when i was just starting my MSc. life. I was eagerly going to library and borrow some books (because i start loving books when entered ukm), excited to try anything new and explore new places that i had never gone through before during my degree life, always look positive side to plan my schedule life and also struggling in creating good interpersonal of me. Even surprisingly, i started getting out myself for a jog – to "live in active lifestyle" (thanks to arwah kerol for this).
But somehow, the challenge of life hit me continuously and made me stumble more than i ever imagined. The sadness, inferiority and anxiety were rooted slowly. I don't know either i am not treating myself in the right way or maybe because i let all of these without any cure. I have to admit another thing too, which is falling in love during my MSc. was the BIGGEST mistake in my life (but inevitably, love was also the most awesome feeling i ever felt. It's just like a package.). And it's just like making me become worse. The failures and heartbroken feeling just made me chaotic, i could not control myself, hopeless and gloomy at almost time, i lose my appetite, hm, what more? It was so terrible even hard for me to concentrate on my work, research, study because i keep on focusing on my failures, my fears. I scared of another failures, until i don't want to take any more steps and choices. Like i lost my vision, and that was such a pathetic moment.
Until when i was in the middle stage of writing up my thesis, i just think, oh god, how can i let myself suffer like this for a long time. I was trying to look out for a silver lining for every moment, finish unfinished work, decided to go through everything. It quite tired and burst my eyes into tears in most of my prayers (i can said in every week i cried almost everyday, especially during dhuha and asar. And i dont why) , but that is how actually i could find myself and my serenity. I never blamed Allah for this, but somehow i grateful to Allah for tracking down myself back onto the right path. It was beautiful-bitterness journey which taught me a lot of things and showed to me that Allah always here, beside me, beside us, beside ourselves. At the same time, with faith to the fullest, i remarkably realized there is no one can help you unless God. It trained me out, become turning point to be the most tawakal person (and this is actually how the idea of post logik satu tambah satu came out), and as He said in the Quran:
And whosoever places his reliance on God, then God is all that he needs. (Quran 65:3)
My the most favourite ayat, which is actually a part from ayat seribu dinar. I put this ayat as a note, and paste it in my area wherever i used to study or work. People might easily say, "put tawakal on Allah", but the truth is, it is actually more than that. Tawakal is not only a prayer and hope. It is full of trust that we have to put that only Allah s.w.t. can help us to go through on something, even we didn't find the way out. It was difficult and challenging at the beginning, because some circumstances happened in life let me think i'll not able to go through, i thought it was impossible and even i got stuck to find out any way out. I tend to doubt on my life, become a worry person, and this has made me feel harder to put full of tawakal with this doubt inside myself. At this moment, i finally realized we should not have doubts with His plan if we totally have worship of Him. Sometimes God gave us test and circumstances just to test our faith on Him. If we trust Him, be patient, somehow God will show us the way that we never expect. That's how tawakal works.
The fate from Allah had somehow been beautiful, and sometimes it might take time for us to realized the meaning of each. I realized, i easily become fear and scare with my own life because i've doubt with His plan unconsciously, and not fully put my hope in my dua. We actually have to confide ourselves that Allah will fulfill our dua everytime we ask help from Him.
I admit i missed me so much, and how i wished to return back for anything that i've lost. But, life is nothing without test, without changes, without experiences. We have to accept changes as God actually gave us things that we actually need even we think we won't. We have to forgive people, forgive ourselves especially for what we have done to ourselves, even though sometimes it is something that unacceptable. This is how we actually gave ourselves a chance again for a better change. Life is full of failures and rejections that we cannot avoid or run away, but we have to accept.
Should i miss my old? Well, i still missed myself even people said no, but at the same time i think i should love for what i have right now. Alhamdulillah ala kulli hal.
Cuma, kena teruskan mengubah diri kepada lebih baik. Sebab terasa banyaknya kelemahan. Supaya hidup itu sentiasa ada matlamat, tak kosong, kan?
Should i miss my old? Well, i still missed myself even people said no, but at the same time i think i should love for what i have right now. Alhamdulillah ala kulli hal.
Cuma, kena teruskan mengubah diri kepada lebih baik. Sebab terasa banyaknya kelemahan. Supaya hidup itu sentiasa ada matlamat, tak kosong, kan?
