Thought of The Day

 

My thought of the day 💭:

TO MAINTAIN SOMETHING IS SO MUCH HARDER THAN TO ACHIEVE OR GAIN SOMETHING 

Example 1️⃣:

You finally shed the extra five kilos after months of strict diet. You are happy to get back the body shape you love. In your happiness, you forget about your diet and start eating like before.

It may start innocently like I just eat all I want today to celebrate my success. But turns out, you eat like that everyday and gained back the weights you lost just in a couple of days. Been there, done that.😅

Example 2️⃣:

You just started to further your study. It was your first semester. The joy and spirit of being a student once again accompanied you. Because of this, you are so focused on your study and manage a 4.0 CGPA.

Unfortunately, you began to lose your enthusiasm and this affects your result. You can longer maintain your 4 flat. Oh by the way, I'm giving this example from my own experience.

I know there are a lot of students out there that have the will to stay focus all through their study. Again, been there done that. Not proud of it. 🥴

Example 3️⃣:

You just got married (this example is certainly NOT from personal experience, merely from reading and observation). You and your spouse are all lovey dovey. ❤️ You call your husband, sayang and he calls you darling (bear with me here, haha..) Everything is all rainbows and sunshine.

But, as you thread through marriage, you realize that it was more than calling endearment to each other. It needs strength, energy, commitment, struggle and (feel free to add in anything you think important in a marriage, you guys are better and more expert than me in this topic 😆).

And according to this 2014 news article, there is one divorce in Malaysia every 10 minutes. It proves that a happy marriage, heck just marriage is hard to uphold.

Example 4️⃣:

You vowed to yourself that starting from today you will read at least two pages of Al-Quran. And alhamdulillah, you are able to do it for two long weeks. That one weekend, you had a fun holiday with your families or friends and that holiday made you skipped your daily Quran reading.

This time back to my personal experience. 😉. And that couple of days you skipped made you lazy to start back your recital routine. Really really not proud of this. That' why in Islam, it is more important and better to stay istiqamah doing small deeds than one big deed one time.

Example 5️⃣:

COVID-19, we manage to flatten the curve, and we stopped being cautious. We forget about the SOP (not blaming anyone here, just general saying) and look at the statistic today.

I hope after all this points, you guys will see why I think maintaining or keeping something is harder than achieving or gaining it.

🍀 Fun fact: It takes an average of 66 days before a new habit takes root in our brain.

#ThoughtsForToday

Chocolate!!!

I love chocolate!!! Who doesn't?! Well, since i love chocolate, i usually have one nearby. I usually keep my chocolate in my pillow (inside the pillow case), so that i could reach it easily.

I think i started this habit since i was in secondary school. It was a boarding school, so we don't have access to a fridge. In order to keep our chocolate from melting, we just put in in the pillow case since it's quite low in temperature. Our chocolate usually deformed but still doesn't melt.

I remember that my friend usually search my stock of chocolates. I even put them under the mattress if they don't fit on the pillow case. I still have this habit of putting chocolate in the pillow case until now eventhough i have easy access to the fridge.

Just now, my mother who is sleeping at my sister's house (help looking after my niece and nephews since my sister is working outstation in china) was asking me what is the thing she found the pillow case. I said nothing since i forgot the existence of my chocolate there. I only remembered when my mom said it was a bar of chocolate, huhu..

ps: my mom asked why did i put it there and answer was habit, convenient and easy to reach. :)