Mengelak itu Mudah

Dan orang besar, tidak akan pernah mengelak.

Pernah gak denger cerita para Nabi mengelak dari masalah? Dari tantangan dan masalah?

Adam, yang bertaubat dan menerima hukuman Allah untuk turun ke bumi.

Nuh yang berusaha keras tetap membangun kapal itu ditengah musim kemarau panjang dan ejekan kaumnya.

Ibrahim, yang gigih mencari Tuhan dan tetap berjuang menegakkan ke-Esa-an-Nya walau harus bermandikan api.

Musa, yang terkenal keras dan pantang menyerah, hingga lautan pun terbelah.

Isa, yang selalu lembut dan penuh kasih sayang kepada sesiapapun pencemooh dan penentangnya.

Muhammad, yang tak pernah mundur sedikitpun dalam peperangan, tidak pernah mengingkari janji meskipun terlihat merugikan, dan dengan gagah terhormat datang menerima tantangan.

Tidak pernah sejarah mencatat nama orang-orang yang mudah mengelak dengan tinta emas.

So, lain kali, ketika terlihat bahwa kesulitan itu datang dengan segala macam kerumitannya, dan yang terpikir pertama kali adalah untuk mengelak dengan berbagai alasan, maka ingatlah akan mereka.

Dan ingatlah kemana tujuan kita dalam hidup yang terlalu singkat ini. Kemudian berpikirlah lagi, apakah memang harus mengelak kali ini?

Life : It's Official Now

Almost 12 years of my life spent on one of the best company in Indonesia.

It's official as of today, that I'm no longer part of the company.

Now I'm a part of another company that I'm thinking to be very much aligned with what Seth Godin means in his Small is the New Big article.

Humbled. Thrilled. Excited.

All the strong feelings mixed into one.

Ceasefire

Is it only me who questions if the ceasefire is "planned" to happened just few days before Obama inauguration?

Even so,
whatsoever caused the ceasefire, I'm truly glad that it happened especially for the people involved in the warzone.

I'd nevertheless hoped that this time it is for a real and longlasting peace.

To Children and Parents in the Warzone

I am really sorry that I could only offer you my condolences and very little help compared to your sufferings and misery.

May Allah, the Most Compassionate, be with you, always.

Is UNO a Joke?

Short answer?
Maybe yes, and if it is, it is a very black unfunny tasteless one.

Long answer? Please, let me think about this.

I am not sure I know of much details about UNO but some that I learned during schools and movies (you can learn from movies? yes, even from a bad one).

But UNO's very existence is becoming a tasteless joke. It's inability to stop clear and present violences in recent Israel vs Palestina war is not only a joke, it is both stupid and shameful. Thinking only from this point of view, I'd say UNO need to be dismissed with red marks and disgraced. Every nation still believe in it should be condemned and exiled.

From another point of view, 'though, I'd say that it is not that simple. UNO may not be so useful at times, it may even act as collective moron some other times, but it maybe the only place where people could sit together, discuss and find solutions to important matters regarding the survival of humans and nations without firing any inter-continental missiles.

As I've written recently, I still am condemned any terrorist actions. I believe that the only way to stop these violences and came out civilized is to continue spreading good words, good will, and good acts within and to each other.

If only we could all stop for a moment and thought about best gifts of our lives, we may not be so easy to do harm unto others.