MEREMEHKAN ATAU MENGAMBIL RINGAN SESUATU PERKARA
Pernah tak pada satu hari kita duduk dan fikirkan kenapa kita meremehkan sesuatu perkara yang seharusnya kita lakukan segera? Selalunya tidak. Kita tak pernah nak ambil pusing pun pasal benda sebegini sehinggalah kita kehilangan sesuatu atau se seorang.
Saya tinggal di pulau. Pada saya dan saya percaya ramai orang diluar sana pun bersetuju dengan saya yang Pulau Langkawi adalah salah satu dari pulau-pulau yang tercantik di dunia.
Cuba teka dah berapa saya pergi berkelah atau mandi-manda ataupun memancing? Rasanya untuk berenang sekali setahun dan untuk memancing empat bulan sekali. Mesti ramaiyang kata..ruginya. Dah duduk dekat pantai, tak reti nak pergi pulak..
Itulah yang saya katakan kita mengambil ringan sesuatu perkara.
Mari kita ambil contoh yang lain.Kita pernah rapat dengan seseorang. Disebabkan dia mungkin pernah menyakitkan hati anda, anda telah menjauhkan diri daripadanya. Bukannya tak ingat untuk berbaik semula, tetapi anda selalu mengambil sikap, "ahh,biarlah dulu". Sikap beginilah yang selalu merugikan kita. Satu hari, seorang rakan bersama (mutual friend) datang kerumah membawa berita yang tidak disangka. Rakan anda itu telah meninggal dunia. Terkedu dengan berita itu anda terduduk seketika. Masa tu baru anda terfikir, "Ya Allah, apa aku dah buat ni?" Kenapalah aku tidak melupakan saja perkara yang dah berlalu dan cuba berbaik dengannya? Yang menyedihkan lagi ialah, apabila anda pergi melawat jenazah dan bertemu dengan ibu bapanya. Mereka mengatakan yang mereka sangat gembira kerana akhirnya dapat bertemu dengan anda sebab anak mereka selalu menceritakan perkara yang baik-baik tentang anda. Sedihkan? Tapi itulah kita..
Hah, topik ni yang saya suka. Anak-anak. Dia orang tahu kita selalu ada dibelakang untuk membetulkan keadaan. Dia orang tahu kita selalu ada dikala mereka didalam kesusahan. Kita juga menjadi bank kesukaan mereka sebab dapat buat pinjaman dengan serta merta tanpa faedah. Kadang-kadang tak payah bayar balik pun.
Kita beri kemewahan yang melimpah yang membuatkan mereka alpa. Bahagian ni mak bapak salah juga. Terlalu memanjakan anak-anak. Tetapi anak-anak ni pun satu. Dah mak bapak tolong, jangan la ambil kesempatan sampai tak tahu nak berusaha sendiri. Janganla terlalu bergantung harap kepada ibubapa anda. Semua orang akan mati, termasuk mak bapak. Mereka bukan nya boleh menongkat langit. Anak-anak, cubalah menjadi dewasa. Ini untuk kebaikan sendiri. Jangan ambil kesempatan diatas kemurahan hati ibu bapa anda.
Kita diberi tugasan oleh bos ditempat kerja atau pun membuat thesis yang diberi oleh pensyarah di kolej. Benda tu perlu di hantar balik masa dua minggu. Perkara pertama yang datang dalam otak ialah, "lambat lagi. Biarlah dulu." Dua minggu dah tukar jadi seminggu. Itupun kita masih lagi melalaikannya. Bila dah dekat sangat hari baru kita jadi kelam kabut. Masa tu pandai pulak cari idea nak temberang kat bos atau pensyarah. Siapa yang susah? Kita juga. Kenapalah kita tak boleh buat aja bila disuruh, sikit-sikit pun tak apa. Lambat laun habis juga..
Kita tahu keadaan kereta kita macam mana. Walaupun dah pakai sepuluh tahun, kita masih sayang dan jaganya macam baby kita. Bila kita nampak lampu kuning kecik kat dashboard kereta tu menunjukkan minyak nak habis, kita fikir biarlah dulu, lampu ni pun bukan betul sangat. Kadang-kadang ada minyak pun keluar warning juga. Jadi kita terus memandu. Mana tau hari tu, lampu warning tu memang jalan betul. Tengah-tengah jalan kereta mati. Dengan segera kita bagi isyarat kiri dan pandu keluar perlahan-lahan.
Kereta tu memang dah betul-betul kehabisan minyak. Sekarang kita harus telefon seseorang untuk datang, bawa anda ke kedai minyak, cari botol kosong isi minyak, pandu balik ke kereta anda tadi dan isi semula minyak. Jadinya masa yang sepatutnya cuma 4 minit nak sampai kerumah dah tukar jadi 1 jam.
Pulak tu, siap maki hamun sorang diri sebab kehabisan minyak itu tadi. Nak salahkan siapa? Kita juga kan..
Jadi moral of the story, bila mana kita perlu berbuat sesuatu, eloklah dibuat dengan segera. Janganlah suka menangguh kerja sebab akibatnya akan menyakitkan hati atau menyesal yang teramat sangat.
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TAKING THINGS FOR GRANTED
Have we ever took a moment to sit and think about the above topic? I am sure we don't. We don't usually give a thought about it until it's too late or until we've lost something or somebody.
I live in an island. To me it is one of the beautiful island in the whole world. We are surrounded by the sea and mountains and natures. Guess how many times did I go to the beach for swimming or picnicking? Maybe once in the whole year for swimming and three times for fishing ( that means i'd go fishing every 4 months once). I know what you guys out there would say. It's like "what? What a waste.." Yeah..yeah..I know. That 's why I said we're taking things for granted.
Let's take another instance. There' someone who was once close to you. You had purposely put a barrier or distanced yourself from him/her because you were hurt by something he or she had done. You thought of patching things up but always putting a hold to it. One find day, a mutual friend came by and deliver a news you least expect it. He/she died! You sat there thinking, oh no, what had I done? Why didn't I let go of the past and make it up when I still had the chance? To make matters worst,you paid a visit to his/her parents after the funeral and they told you how happy they were to finally getting to meet you as their demised son/daughter had talked nothing but the best of you. Sad ain't it but that's us..
Here comes my favorite part, kids. They know we are always around to make things right from wrong. They know we are that someone they can fall on to should they face some difficulties. We are their favorite bankers who'd never charged them interest and always there for an instant loan . Sometimes without having to pay back.
They had everything delivered to them in silver platter of which we were partly to be blamed. For giving in too much. But what about them? They were so used to having us as their solid rock to fall onto that they never thought that one day we will not be able to protect them or lend them money or give them hope when they hit rock bottom. Because everyone dies. What would happen to them then? Children, grow up! It' for your own good. Don't take us (your parents) for granted!
We were given an assignment by our head department or a thesis by our lecturer and needed to be hand over in two weeks. "Okay, i still got plenty of time." that's our first thought. Two weeks became 1 week. Still we thought I still got time. Why in the world didn't we just sit for a few hours and finish it up and not waiting for the deadline to appear? Suddenly two weeks became tommorrow. By now, we had to find some lame excuses to feed our boss or lecturer. Who make the life complicated? We do, we brought it upon ourselves. We shouldn't think that time will wait for us. It waits for nobody.
We knew our car condition like the back of our hands. Even if its a 10 year old car, it is still our baby. Whenever you see that blinking yellow icon on your car dashboard, you knew matter-of-factly that your car needed gas to be filled. But once in a while you knew that, that blinking light can't be trusted too much and you ignore filling in the gas. Thought you could reach home safely. After all it's only a couple of kilometer away from where you are now. Well, What do we know. Suddenly your car gave a jerk. You had no choice but to signal out and exit the road fast as you can. Your car needed that gas badly. Instead of reaching home in a matter of 4 minutes, you now had to wait for someone to fetch you and get yourself to a gas station, buy a liter of gas and follow that someone back where your car was stranded and fill it in. All in all, it will take more than an hour.
And all the while you were cursing with the mouth of a truck-driver but again, who is to be blamed? Us, for taking things for granted.
Moral of the story, don't always dilly dally things that needed to be done. Show your love to your loved ones and find a space in your heart to forgive and forget the things people did that had hurt your feelings badly.
Rose
14th.July '12
