pikiaq

pikiaq lah.

   Everyone has their dents in life, which seems to increase as we grow. The more dents we have, the more we think on why they came and how in the heck can we fix them. 

   Yes it might be good to reminisce over these matters but it gets out of hand when we tend to over think. Over thinking is that cancer growing in us, bringing in thoughts such as; "Drat, this is all I get in return?" or the ever famous, "Oh dang, I'm just not good enough" and so on and so forth. 

   I myself am still going through that thing up there . But one day, a friend of mine came and asked a short yet mind boggling question. How do you define your success in life ? I came thinking. For days I thought.

"maybe it's making my mom and dad proud"

"ehh no, i'll be a friggin' boss and make moolah !"

and others unmentionable.

  But little did i know, all the ideas coming in are mostly matters chained to the never-lasting world. Of course some of them might be good things, no doubt, but what might be the exact answer to that question? 

  It's simple. Be a good muslim. It's funny how I took so long to figure that out as I'm a muslim myself and how it relates to everything mentioned above;

  Firstly, for feelings like being not good enough and not getting things in return, I at first concluded that success in life was syukr and sabr (but actually it was part of the success.)

  And secondly,  

  Yes you should make your parents proud as it is a part of being a good muslim child. 

  Yes you can strive to be a big bawss and generously share your wealth with the poor.

  So to speak, sometimes the thing we want to achieve is only a small pinch of what we should be really succeeding in, which is our Deen. How to be a good Muslim ? Well the Qur'an is for those who think, and the Qur'an holds the answers. Read and recite it.

"To succeed in life is in sights unseen called the afterlife."