kisah inspiratif (terlebih lagi untuk akhwat)

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Waktu itu, sekitar tahun 2000, datang seorang mahasiswi kepada seorang dosen, dia menghampirinya dengan wajah yang muram, dan kemudian berkata, "Pak, beasiswa Program Magister dan Doktor saya lolos". Dan hanya itu saja kata2 yang keluar dari mulutnya, tanpa diikuti ekspresi apapun dari wajahnya... mengingat di luar sana berjuta - juta orang memimpikan pencapaian ini. Dan sang dosen tertegun, kemudia dia berkata, "Bagus donk dek, kamu bisa bikin bangga banyak orang, dan itu merupakan jalan hidup yang sangat baik. Lalu apa yang membuat kamu terlihat bimbang dek."

Akhirnya mahasiswi itu bercerita kepada sang dosen. "Pak, sekolah hingga S2 dan S3 merupakan cita-cita saya sejak kecil, ini adalah mimpi saya, tidak terbayangkan rasa bahagia saya saat memperoleh surat penerimaan beasiswa ini.... Tapi pak, saya ini akhwat, saya wanita, dan saya bahagia dengan keadaan ini.. Saya tidak memiliki ambisi besar, saya hanya senang belajar dan menemukan hal baru, tidak lebih.. Saya akan dengan sangat ikhlas jika saya menikah dan suami saya menyuruh saya untuk menjadi ibu rumah tangga.. Lalu, dengan semua keadaan ini, apa saya masih harus sekolah?? saya takut itu semua menjadi mubazir, karena mungkin ada hal lain yang lebih baik untuk saya jalani."

Pak dosen pun terdiam, semua cerita mahasiswinya adalah logika ringan yang sangat masuk akal, dan dia tidak bisa disalahkan dengan pikirannya... Dosen itu pun berfikir, memejamkan mata, menunggu Allah SWT membuka hatinya, memasukkan jawaban dari pertanyaan indah ini...

Dan jawaban itu datang kepadanya, masuk ke dalah ide nya.... Pak dosen berkata seperti ini kepada mahasiswinya.. "Dek, sekarang bertanyalah kepada hati kecil mu, apa dia masih menginginkan dirimu untuk melanjutkan pendidikan ini hingga puncak nanti.." .. Sang mahasiswi bingung, dia menunduk , air mata turun dari kedua matanya, seakan dia merasakan konflik hati yang sangat besar ... yang saling ingin meniadakan.. Dosen itu melanjutkan nasehatnya.. "Dek, saya ingin bertanya kepadamu, kapan pertama kali engkau berhadapan dengan seorang S3 dan mendapat ilmu darinya?" "Sejak saya kuliah di ITB , Pak." Jawab sang gadis. Kemudian dosen itu melanjutkan ,"Ya dek, betul, saya pun demikian, saya baru diajar oleh seorang lulusan S3 semenjak saya kuliah di kampus ini.. Tapi dek, coba adek fikirkan, bahwa saat engkau memiliki anak, maka orang pertama yang akan menyapih rambut anakmu adalah seorang lulusan S3. Orang yang pertama mengajaknya berjalan adalah seorang ilmuwan tinggi, dan sejak dia mulai membaca, dia akan dibimbing dan dijaga oleh seorang Doktor. Itulah peranmu sebagai ibu nanti, apakah engkau bisa membayangkan betapa beruntungnya anak manusia yang akan kau lahirkan nanti." Dan itulah jawaban Allah SWT melalui pak dosen.... Mahasiswi itu tersadar dari konflik panjangnya, dan ia tersenyum bahagia, sangat bahagia, air matanya menjadi air mata haru, dan ia berdiri, mengucapkan terima kasih nya kepada sang dosen, dan berkata , "Pak, terima kasih, akan saya lanjutkan pendidikan ini hingga tidak satupun puncak lagi yang menghalangi saya."

Betapa hidup itu sangat berarti, dan jadikan ia bermakna.. Bukan uang yang nanti akan membuatmu bahagia, tetapi rasa syukur mu lah yang akan menjadi kebahagiaan yang hakiki,.

Based on Dr. Hermawan Dipojono story... Lecture from Physics Engineering, ITB .
This article was originally published in forum thread: kisah inspiratif (terlebih lagi untuk akhwat) started by jalu_naradi View original post

You Have Two Choices

Jerry is the manager of a restaurant. He is always in a good mood.
When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would always reply:
'If I were any better, I would be twins!' Many of the waiters at his restaurant quit their jobs when he changed jobs, so they could follow him around from restaurant to restaurant.
Why？
Because Jerry was a natural motivator.
If an employee was having a bad day, Jerry was always there, telling him how to look on the positive side of the situation. Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up to Jerry and asked him：
'I don't get it! No one can be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?'
Jerry replied, 'Each morning I wake up and say to myself, I have two choices today. I can choose to be in a good mood or I can choose to be in a bad mood.
I always choose to be in a good mood. Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be victim or I can choose to learn from it. I always choose to learn from it.
Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or I can point out the positive side of life. I always choose the positive side of life.'
'But it's not always that easy,' I protested.

'Yes it is,' Jerry said.
'Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk every situation is a choice.
You choose how you react to situations.
You choose how people will affect your mood.
You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood.
It's your choice how you live your life.'
Several years later, I heard that Jerry accidentally did something you are never supposed to do in the restaurant business. He left the back door of his restaurant open And then in the morning, he was robbed by three armed men. While Jerry trying to open the safe box, his hand, shaking from nervousness, slipped off the combination. The robbers panicked and shot him.
Luckily, Jerry was found quickly and rushed to the hospital.
After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Jerry was released from the hospital with fragments of the bullets still in his body....
I saw Jerry about six months after the accident.
When I asked him how he was, he replied, 'If I were any better, I'd be twins. Want to see my scars?' I declined to see his wounds, but did ask him what had gone through his mind as the robbery took place.
'The first thing that went through my mind was that I should have locked the back door,' Jerry replied. 'Then, after they shot me, as I lay on the floor, I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live or could choose to die. I chose to live.'
'Weren't you scared' I asked?
Jerry continued, 'The paramedics were great. They kept telling me I was going to be fine.
But when they wheeled me into the Emergency Room and I saw the expression on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read 'He's a dead man. I knew I needed to take action.'
'What did you do?' I asked.
'Well, there was a big nurse shouting questions at me,' said Jerry. 'She asked if I was allergic to anything.' 'Yes,' to bullets, I replied.
Over their laughter, I told them: 'I am choosing to live. Please operate on me as if I am alive, not dead.'
'Jerry lived thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude.
I learned from him that every day you have the choice to either enjoy your life or to hate it.
The only thing that is truly yours - that no one can control or take from you - is your attitude,
so if you can take care of that, everything else in life becomes much easier.
Now you have two choices to make:
1. You can ignore this message or
2. You can learn and apply the lessons from this story.

Taken from: www.guy-sports.com/humor/videos/powerpoint_two_choices.htm