The sun does not give much its light at 6.48 pm today, summer 2010. I am still sitting here while trying to pour out my ideas into an electronic paper - blog. The sun reminds me back how I ended up in this small city, Sudbury, Canada. Although this is just a small one, but it rendered me a lot of experiences during my journey of seeking knowledge. A shadow of people who are sitting downstairs and their voices were blown by a wind that runs smoothly. I keep writing while enjoying their voices that are not really clear enough to be heard. At this moment, I begin to trace back myself through a tunnel of my life and here is a small reflection of the journey.
It was around one and half years ago, I decided that I wanted to see another part of the world, the West. But, I begin my journey in the very early young age- 12 years-old. Traveling, for me, is a learning process that we will never achieve fully until we get out of a soil where we were born. In fact, traveling is the biggest classroom in the universe. A physical classroom is just a small place where a learning process takes place and contains only small portions of knowledge. But, for a further understanding, human needs to get in touch with a ground where everything is laid down and unorganized. So, those people who received any knowledge from a classroom, they are obliged to put those unorganized stuff into a perspective in a simple way.
Having that in mind, I believe that seeking knowledge can be gained fully if one wants to travel to see different parts of the world. This is not an easy task, yet it is so rewarding for those who believe in the beauty of taking journey in order to gain some knowledge. Taking a journey, without any doubt, will always be surrounded by hardship and difficulties. However, a true traveler (knowledge seeker) will not look at them as burden, instead they view them as parts of a process of satisfying their hunger of knowledge. In fact, those hardship and difficulties are things that make him or her as a true learner.
I have left a place where I was born and come to look at myself who is eligible enough to put unorganized things into a perspective. I think this is a time for me to go to the ground. The time to apply what I have already known and gained, the time to heal, the time to share with others, and the time to look at a future with a full of optimism.
I came with nothing, but now I have almost everything that can be given to others. Until I did not realize that I am almost done with my study in pursuing human development. I chose this because I am interested to know how human develops throughout a life-span, from time to time, from one stage to another. Although I have a little knowledge about my self and others as human being, I feel that I already have a responsibility to put unorganized things into a perspective.
I have to thank to all people who have helped and supported me, materially or psychologically, directly or indirectly, until I arrive in this small city that taught me about human. The size of the city does not really matter because the one that is matter is certain people whom I've met have taught me some knowledge that I can develop and transfer later on to others who are in need.
Thanks God to keep guiding me in every condition and situation, both hardship and happiness. I've come to believe that a faith that human sustains in any condition can help them to go through difficulties in life. Keep learning and never give up whenever you fall down in the middle of your journey. What makes you different from others is when others fall, they don't get up. But when you fall, you always get up and you are ready to give your contagious smile to the world !
July 29, 2010
Sudbury, Canada
8.46 pm
