Friday, January 06, 2006

What lesson do we learn?

My grandma said that our fate belongs to God. We can’t determine or even predict our birth or death. He manages all his creatures with his rule that we must obey. Flowers blossom in its season, farmers harvest grains which have been mature in a particular time, fish swim, birds fly, and even when we breathe the air. Everything has its own track and if human being puts everything in its place, everything will be okay.

Courtesy of www.republika.co.id God is merciful. He won’t punish us if we play our role correctly. Even in his punishment, there is lesson that we can learn. So what can we get from Aceh tsunami? Why did God deliver horrible sea waves to devastate Aceh people and their livelihood? Even when the bruise caused hasn’t disappeared, we were shocked with Jember flood and Banjarnegara slide subsequently. What’s wrong with the rail?

Courtesy of www.kompas.com Anyway, like my grandma said, we should always think positively. There must be messages behind those disasters. It is impossible that God waste tens life with nothing to get. It depends on us then whether we can learn from those or not. Many opinions have arisen on that tragedy. Scientists said that God punish us because our attitude to his forest, our habits in throwing garbage to our rivers, and our poor concern to environment. Are those enough? Is there anybody think about our moral? Does someone ever think about our permissive behavior in every aspect of social interaction? Corruption, nepotism, bribery, authority abuse and greedy, and other culture which are realized or not have contributed to our own distinction.