Saturday, February 28, 2009

Look into yourself...


As a student, unconsciously they are the product of the environmental factors. One has to really look into oneself if you want to be free from factors that can hampered or prevent your mental growth. The undesirable influence could be from home, can be from friends at school, and can be from what we see and hear everyday and thus thinking we are alright till something goes wrong. In Islam we are encouraged to travel in order to reset our mental set. But the opportunity to travel is not easy to come by. And for some it takes a paradigm shift. If that is the case, books can be the substitute for travelling, at least for now. As a student, to read and read and read, is your everyday challenge. Eventually you are what you read. And it is very unfortunate if I still find students are still egoistic of their background and fail to neutralise life as it should. At campus, birds of the same feather flocks together. They don't really mix. It is okay if you don't have friends. But at heart and mind you are a very free person, free from undesirable factors that can stunt your mental growth. Be thoughtful and be creative and develop your imagination. With the opportunity given, read everything. InsyaAllah, you shall be given the rightful mental and physical strength to face the whole world.

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