change!

it’s so nice to have such a continuous routinities. it feels like your life runs smooth. i do have it also.. work 5 days a week, about 10-12 hours a day, come home at about 9-10 pm, do some dishes and refreshments, go to bed at about 10.30 or so, wake up at about 5 am, pray, take a bath, do some make-ups, go to the office, and that’s how i do my daily activities. on weekend, yes of course.. spend some quality time with my loved one, do some favor for my mum, my dad, or my sister, hang out with my cheerful ‘arisan’ girlfriends, and the rest of relaxation thing i usually do.

i love my life, especially when everything runs smooth.. as i said before. one or two minor problems.. doesn’t matter. well, it’s not a life without obstacles, right? our quality depends on how we deal with problems, i’m sure everyone is aware of that.

but, it turned out that something tickled me. do i really want to have some sort of ‘forever-runs-smooth’ life for the rest of my life? when everything is under control, those routinities be done just as i do before and always? if it is, my life remains static. well, of course, by having and solving problems, we can grow better and wiser than before. but it comes from outside, right? the stimulus is external factor, while we are only a static thing that remains silent and just receive anything comes our way.

so, i was thinking.. HEY! i gotta get out of this comfort zone i’m in! i do have improvement everytime i’m able to solve my problems well. but this is not what life means. it should be something better, bigger, wiser, more mature me all the time. and it’s not that nice to keep on silent and just be passive in running our lives. i found out how to answer the question, CHANGE!

change is not always something radical, fast, upsidedown thing in an instance. it can be a will, intention, state of mind to have better us. this is a wonderful saying i want to share with you: mind leads to word, word leads to action, action leads to habit, habit leads to character, and character leads to destiny. so, first of all: keep in mind that improvement, changes, self-development are something WE have to create, instead of waiting for those to come. and the next thing, it will come through your word, action, habit, character, and hey.. it might affect your destiny. didn’t HE once say that HE won’t change the destiny of a person unless that person changes his own?

and next, get out of your comfort zone. yes, i know.. it’s enjoyable to stay there, especially when everything is set up perfectly for you. but look around, everyone is running.. even riding their light-speed jet, heading to their goal: embracing life as wonderful as they can. while you, standing where you are. waiting for those external factors bring you there. when will you get there? when everyone is chasing another goals.

as i said before, it all started with mind. no matter how many people with those wise sayings tell you to do this and that, if you have that sort of mental-blocking mechanism, it’s useless. try to have wide-opened mind. be open for everything new, but of course pick those which good for you and learn a lesson from the bad. put aside everything that prevent you from having the opportunity to be a better you, especially YOURSELF. beside, it’s your life, right. you decide!