Never Too Late for Anything…

…as long as you want it.

When people say that there is no end to human desire, I was wondering how would that work. Won’t a person realize his/her limitation; what one can do, what one can’t do, how far would one go to get something, how much would one sacrifice to gain?

Then I realize something. Limits are by our own definition; we set it. If it is your limit, then that’s that. But sometimes it is just us who don’t want to go that extra extent because we are afraid of what the cost might be, and sometimes pure laziness and and spiritless soul make you underrate yourself. When you can obtain more, you stopped at where you are. At some points in life that I haven’t encounter, maybe that’s the best. But other than that, why wouldn’t we push our limit?

It is even sad to think that we didn’t push ourselves not because we can’t, but because we don’t want to.

That’s what I get from the latest issue of Milenia Muslim, March 2010 edition; an article written by Prof Dr Muhd Kamil Ibrahim, the writer of “Travelog Haji – Mengubah Sempadan Iman”. He has an ambition, and he pushed through all the hurdles and difficulties to get through. Along the way, he found out that he lacked in a very vital part of being a human; even more so, a Moslem. He lacked the basic foundation of ‘ebaadah and most of other part. Yes, he prayed, but he himself realized that what he did was not enough. He didn’t even know how to recite the holy book. In essence, he’s a professor in his field, but at the basic level of being a moslem, he was a failure.

It is interesting to see in the article that his pursue of his ambition and career got him closer to the Creator. He then pushed himself through and finally get to know more about Islam, and being able to practice it in a more comprehensive, complete way gave him satisfaction.

What I wrote won’t do his article justice, but that’s my take. There’s a lot of thing that we can actually learn from him; but the most prominent one is when you want something, you set your heart to it, fall in love with it, and this will drive you to achieve what you set in the first place.

Go read the article. Not to do advertisement or anything, but Milenia Muslim can be found anywhere. If you happen to see one, go get it.

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