Ready, set, GO!

Salam 'alaikum. Salam buat semua.

You know what people say, look forward and never turn back.
Well, I don't know how far that's valid in the real life.

Kadang-kadang, ada masanya, kita perlu berhenti sejenak dan toleh ke belakang.
Menoleh, bukan untuk meratapi, bukan untuk menangisi. Bukan juga untuk mengembalikan harapan-harapan yang pernah suatu ketika kita harapkan.

Life is a race. A rat race.
Turning us all into lab rats. Experimenting on human reaction is one thing.
But experimenting on another being's emotion?
Kadang-kadang dalam perlumbaan dunia yang tak berkesudahan ini, kita rasa kita perlu "catch a breath".
Berhenti sebentar, toleh ke belakang.
Melihat sejauh mana telah kita tinggalkan apa yang kita tinggalkan.

Kita sedar apa yang kita tuju itu lebih indah. Sungguh indah. Cukup indah.
Tetapi ada masanya kita terasa seperti melihat keindahan apa yang ada di belakang kita mampu membantu kita.
Menjadi "pushing factor", kata kita.
Mengapa? Mengapa perlu toleh ke belakang, kalau apa yang ada di depan lebih indah? Cukup indah untuk kita melangkah ke depan, dan bukan ke belakang.
I don't know. People just resist changes.
I guess it's just easier.
Tak perlu deal with the insecurities. Tak perlu deal with the new zone.
Status quo. Why bother.

That is our destination. See the waterfall? Nahh, guess you can't see it in this photo. A real beauty though.

What we have to go through to get there.

It's a wonder how manusia sanggup melalui pelbagai kesusahan demi mendapatkan apa yang boleh di consider sebagai "gambaran syurga" (of course by no mean dapat menandingi or even close to syurga sebenar ^^), tapi tak sanggup bersabar dengan sedikit kesusahan untuk mendapatkan syurga sebenar. Hurm.

And this is what we see when we looked back.

Cantik sebenarnya. Eheh. (do forgive the photographer)

And people are capable of learning from mistakes.

Maybe that's why they look back.

Maybe that's why they make mistakes in the first place.

Because they are capable of it.

And they too, are capable of forgiving their own mistakes. As well as others'.

I guess.

If jannah is your dream, hold tight to your deen.

- Brotherhood Arts