Reading has been my favourite activity recently. When I was a
child, I did not like reading. To me, it was a tiring thing. I prefered playing
games outside with friends to read a book. Besides, I could not access a good
book such as children magazine, science or something else. This was going on
till my senio high school. When I was in undergraduate level, I tried to read
several books but, it was not my top priority. Once, one of my lecturers urged
us to read lots of English books which were quite difficult for me. He even
said to us that reading book was such a delicious pizza. I thought that I did
not have awareness about that.
Nevertheless, nowadays, I know that reading is very prominent
especially for Master student, like me. Abundance resources must be acquired as
soon as possible, otherwise I will be left behind others. Therefore, I make
some targets in a bid to improve my willingness to read. I started by reading
easy topics, such as newspaper, online information, and so on. I also often go
to bookstore to shop books as a means of acknowledging my insight. I remembered
what my spiritual teacher said to me that to use the free time going to library
to read everything particularly for supporting the study. Therefore, I used to
spend my free time by visiting campus
library. This commitment must be persistent and continuing.
Of course, challenges are inevitable things for those who
strive to do changes. What I felt usually is laziness and not focus. The laziness
actually does not need medical treatment or such kinds of medicine, it just
needs self-motivation to encourage ourselves to wake up, get up and move up
though. Therefore, I used to motivate myself to be positive thinking in order
to get more determination. The second one is being not focus.I still try to be
focus on doing something. Put simply, the use of smartphone. I have been doing
new strategy to limit myself in using smartphone which is very disrupting or
even distracting. What I had done is limiting the use of smartphone from 11 am
to 7.30 am. It was not really easy to do the changes. But, I tried to do it.
Alhamdulillah, I can do it. Though, it was not completed as I
expected. But at least I have made the strategies to achieve that goal. What I
have to strive is to be persistent with what I have created before. Small
things would give huge effects if we do it persistently. Al Istiqoomatu
khoirun min alfi karomah. This hadits emphasizes that being persistent is
better than one thousand karomah. I do hope that I can keep my spirit to be a
persistent person.
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