For those who haven't watch that movie yet, You should see it! :)

Hi Gals! Long time no write :)

Yesterday I watched TV, Lentera Hati, brought by Mr. Quraish Shihab. He's one of my favourites. The topic was about Destiny (I mean 'takdir' in Indonesian, is that a right word?) Anyway, my understanding about destiny is better after I watched that.
Did you think we can't change our destiny? because God has been set our destiny from the beginning? So we don't have to push ourselves to do something, because the result has been already chosen by God?

He gave the true story about Umar bin Khattab. One day, Umar want to visit to one of the villages at his territory, but, when he began to go there, someone told him that, the epidemic was occuring in that villages. After he heard the news, he cancelled to go to that villages, and he planned to go to another villages. Then someone asked him, did he try to avoid God's Destiny? then Umar answered, "Yes, I avoid that God's destiny, and I choose to take another one."

Mr. Shihab said, yes God have been set our destiny, but we can choose which one do we want it to be. He gave another simple example if we know there is something on the way (e.g. kulit pisang :D), then we still choose that way, of course we could fall. But we can choose another way, that could make we don't fall.

According to him, I concluded that, destiny actually is a set of rule that cause something. Then God gave us the freedom to choose which one that we want. We can formulate it like this :

f(i) && f(i+1) && ... && f(n) && x(i) && x(i+1) && ... && x(n) -> Destiny

for the function f we can achieved that by trying, and
for the function x we can achieved that by praying.
the problem is we don't have any list of those rules :p, but all we can do is trying and praying :)

for example if you said that your destiny is being unhappy, you are absolutely right
because you're not trying harder to be happy, because you're happy of being unhappy :p, because you're not really trying to find the reason why you're always unhappy, because you're always forget to pray, because you're never say thanks to God for something that you have, because you're always ask for something that you don't have and we could find more f and x function to prove you're right that your destiny is being unhappy for the rest of your life. But you can choose another destiny which is being happy, what all you have to do find the rules then let's trying and praying do the rest.

Another interesting example, if you said being lonely is your destiny, yes you are damn right. Of course we could find a thousand rules to prove that your destiny is right. but you can change your destiny, it's all up to you.

There is one more important thing, Mr. Shihab also said that, God do restrict our ability. He gave another example if we have a car, of course that car has limited speed, say, that car have 200 kms/hour for full speed, so we just only can ride that car for maximum 200 kms/hour. Same like us, we of course have limitation, but the difference is we don't know how fast can we ride ourselves until we try it.

Just Keep Trying and Praying gals!