A wise man once said, “Learn not just from what you experience but
also from what others experience.” And that’s my way of learning. Learning from
others. Meet others through reading.
Everday, I ride the train, all the way from Sentul Timur LRT
Station to Kajang KTM Station. I use that one hour journey to read. And I’ve
learnt a lot. And I realize that life is not easy, and I realize that this
world is just a journey, a long journey, and we can never return back to the
starting point. I agree with Zahiril Adzim in his Bogel Menuju Tuhan (Trans:
Naked Towards God), we are very beautiful at first but then, throughout the
journey, everything is raped from us. And at the end, we are left naked, and we
can never return or make a u-turn to take what has been left. That is life. And
in that journey, it is up to us to decide, to choose our desired path. Like in
Robert Frost’s Road Not Taken, both we choose the road that many people had
chosen or the other road that has been less travelled by, it is all up to us
and we have to bear the consequences, accept the obstacles or beautiful scenery
that awaits us when the road ends. And this road, the road that we have chosen
has always has it turns. We can turn right, we can turn left, and we can stop
for a while and take a rest. But remember, we can never return to the previous
time.
The turning we made is also our choice and it may lead us to
another way, another path, and another end. Yes, once we have decided to take a
certain path, we can never return but if we realize that the road we take is
the wrong one, or if the road will lead us to a scary cliff, we can always make
a turn. The turn we made is a turning point in our life or some people may call
it a ‘change’. The change is also our choice. For me, a change should always be
the better choice. Change for good. Change for better. And we should change
before our journey stops, before the journey comes to an end. “Those who
decided to change on the twelfth hour die on the eleventh.” So, don’t wait till
the twelfth hour to make a turn. Don’t wait for another junction to make a turn
if you’ve found one. Because we never knew if there is another junction before
we meet the ending. If we realize that we are going astray, we should make a
change. Change for good and for the better because we never knew when we will
die.
P/S: Changes
doesn’t mean that you have to make a 360 degree turn but you can always change
continuously, bit by bit.
(Inspired by: Zahiril Adzim’s Bogel Menuju Tuhan, Hlovate’s
Contengan Jalanan, Robert Frost’s Road Not Taken & Mat Luthfi’s Sebelah
Sayap.
