Stress
By defination, what is a “stress”?
According to the Cambridge Dictionary - http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/stress_1 - is:
“great worry caused by a difficult situation, or something which causes this condition”
So, stress = woryy
Why do we worry?
Thinking outside the box, there’s nothing to worry.
In simple sense, life is all about managing change. It happens all the time, everytime.
What’s more important is the way on how do we want to accept the change. Especially changes that we didn’t like or not expected.
But then again, there is fate and effort.
The last “Rukun Iman” is Qada’ & Qadar. While there is nothing to worry, its is obliged that we must struggle hard to achieve things.
The process of that struggle is important.
But at the end of the day, it’s the acceptance that is the utmost important, regardless of the outcome. We are only human on this world. We are the servant to God.
If things turns out to be good, we must be thankful, insaf.
If things turns out to be bad, we must be thankful, insaf.
In goodness, be thankful for being blessed with the success.
In goodness, insaf – for being given the chance to savour, enjoy the sweetness of success, for being chosen to be better.
In failure, be thankful that its not worse than that, count other blessings that we have.
In failure, insaf – for being given the chance to savour, enjoy the bitterness of failure.
So what is the bottom line to all this – we the servant, has no strength, energy, clarity of anything. It’s all up to him. We worked, we spend and spent, but nothing belongs to us, nothing owed to us.
After all, can we create that ounce of air to breathe?
Can we create that 1 grain to eat?
None and never is the answer.
Thus, we pray and brings our heads down. If this is the things that I have to do, I’ll do it in the greatest honor of God. Good or bad, I’m the servant seeking the divine forginess.
Ya Allah Ya Tuhanku, kepadaMu aku tunduk dan patuh. Darimu aku datang, KepadaMu aku kembali. Tiadalah aku daya upaya. Aku sujud berserah.
