In this brief post, I would like to share a good reminder, a hadith of what Life is about:
If you reflect upon your life up to now, these are five blessings given in Life:
- Youth before old age
- Health before illness
- Wealth before poverty
- Free time before busy-ness
- Life before Death
In our younger days, we tend to lead with little direction. We are often unsure where we are going…
We seek our own direction or path from our role models, our parents, our grandparents, aunties and uncles.
We thought we could find and create our own paths by learning from our friends (or so-called friends). Or these days, influencers in the social media. The influencers can be anyone, celebrities or professionals. Or colleagues.
Or we seek from those who have done it.
“It” is perhaps the “thing” that we thought we want.
Acceptance and the sense of belonging.
Fame and followers.
Money.
Prestige and privileges.
Recognition.
Power.
But then if we reflect again on the sequence of these blessings, it would reveal what Life is about. And it is little of those “things” that we wanted so much from people or workplace since our younger days.
For instance, money is something. Who doesn’t “need” money these days…
But money is not wealth.
Think about it again.
Definitions of “things” change with age.
And there is a general notion that Life starts at 40. Alhamdulillah.
The book “Tuesday with Morrie” highlighted this matter in an interesting way.
So when and if we continue to receive the three blessings past 40s, it is high time to take a good pause and take stock of our Life.
Before the arrival of the fifth element.
Wallahu A’lam.
Semoga bermanfaat.