Holding On to Get There...

Being a postgraduate student, I've retrieved my writing skills. I was a diary person when I was a medical student as I found relief by that methods of feeling ventilation. I still keep those diaries as for my later years reflection and memory (wonder if that can be future document analysis project 😎). 

As I'm currently indulging in qualitative research, I need to polish that skills I left to more enriched and inviting ones. One of the main goal of a postgraduate student is to be graduated on time (GOT). The challenges and obstacles faced are much way complex and troublesome as compared to undergraduate as life become more complicated to most of us as we grow older 😣.

When we were left to our own timeline and schedule, our focus may be side track towards many options and temptations. Each time we want to start doing what we are supposed to do as a student, we may don't have the mood of doing it or prioritize our personal matters instead. We've made list of checklists but jumbled up the "supposed to be done" with "want to be done", which later ends up with "nothing being done".

I found that in this journey of postgraduate study really made myself to ponder and reflect my inner-self. It is important to have a good company and friends, which can always remind and encourage you to hold on and persistent in pursuing your aim goal: GOT. But most important of all is to reconnect and have a good remembrance of your Creator, as vital as the oxygen that we breathe. Sometimes we may be too dependent on human - "what if they say..." "what if they do..." "what if they think...". We will be chasing the dateline(s) and just get the things done half-heartedly. Then we should recall and remind ourselves on what is our main intention in pursuing the postgraduate at the first place. Is it just for the sake of upgrading your career and salary? proving your friends or previous bosses that you are better? These are all only worldly intentions, which we may achieve but won't sustain...as our life beyond this world.

As I drove back yesterday in the midst of traffick jams with sunset in front...the panorama strike me as if picturing my life at present. I may be trailing now, but I can see the rays of lights ahead of me as others also pursuing. I remembered what I've gained from recent Yasmin Mogahed talk: 

Never loss hope in Allah swt. Trust His Mercy, He is The most Merciful and Compassionate to the mankinds...

May Allah guide and blessed me (and all the postgraduate students) with persistence and steadfastness to hold on in this journey of life as I'm getting there....