So,
this year should be the year that I go to Japan to watch Tokyo Olympic~ But
then 2020 teaches me to be patient and to be grateful for what we have. Anyway…
A
little bit contemplation won’t hurt, right?
Living
in Japan myself I know that Japanese is more religious than the person that
have religion (I need to spell this in Indonesia, “lebih islami daripada orang
islam”).
Sometimes
I wonder… What makes the Japanese treat the environment, the neighborhoods, and
even inanimate objects with such consideration and care? Is it their belief
about God that is watching us? Is it their belief about karma?
I
somehow think that this relates to their strong appreciation of math (yes, you
read that right, MATH). The theory of probability to be exact.
They
just could not believe in God or Karma. But they fully understand that we
should never take things for granted.
They
appreciate all beings, be it human or nonhuman. Because all the good and beautiful
things may perish, disappear. As a consequence, our children would never feel
it, never see it, never know it anymore. Who knows, someday the abundance of oxygen
that we always overlook may not be available anymore. This earth provides us
with too many, and also…… have too many random probabilities that could harm
us.
If
only we understand that gratitude is a matter of understanding uncertainty and
probability.
We
as Indonesian, know it the best. That this kind of simple logic is failed to be
diffused through institutional religions. Sometimes being religious today makes
us even further stray away from God.
My
mom is one of the lucky people, that understand the logic and happened to be,
well, religious.
There
is a time when I am home, I asked my mom,
"Mom
why sometimes when I go to sleep, suddenly I have so many things come to mind… feelings,
thoughts, regrets. It makes me feel restless. I could not fall asleep. in a better scenario, I did sleep, but when I wake up... I feel like “why am I
wake up?” You know like you already
tired just for being alive" 😠😠ðŸ˜
My
mom responded, “When you go to sleep, do you say, “God thanks for today, and
please let me wake up tomorrow”? Because some people sleep and never wake
up. Also when you just wake up, you should change your mindset into saying “Let
me make today becomes the day I learn, I contribute, I grow, and I am being
happy.” How you start your day will affect your entire day and how you end
the day will affect how you start your next day.”
My
mom is right. We could die at any moment.
Again.
Gratitude is a matter of understanding uncertainty and probability.
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