The Real Happiness Is...

Welcome May!

OMG it's almost a half year of 2016 ! Time flies so  fast it's like yesterday was still January 1st. Yeah, if you agreed with that statement, means you were enjoyed your days so much. Although it's a good or bad days, you still be grateful from what you have learned from that. One of many lessons I've learned until almost a half year of 2016 is about the real happiness. Yeah, I want to share my thinking about happiness.

Based on the duration, we can devided happiness into 2 big groups: the short term happiness and the long term happiness. So, which one is the real happiness?

are you happy?

Some people are easy to find the short term happiness but the others look for the long term happiness. Well, when someone says they are happy they mean they are satisfied with their life and that they are experiencing a preponderance of ‘pleasant’ emotions, such as contentment, pleasure, joy, enthusiasm and delight (and relatively few ‘unpleasant’ emotions). I call this type of happiness as ‘normal’ happiness. This could be long term happiness but also give short term effect too because the happiness will be decerased by the time.

It is very much connected to what is going on in your life. If your relationships are going well, you have good score at college, great time management, full saved in the bank, your health is good and you are successful at what you do, the chances are you will experience normal happiness. 

The clue that define you are happy is conditional upon certain things being the way you want them to be. If you are made redundant unexpectedly or your friend is upset with you and your sense of happiness and well-being disappears, you know that the happiness you were experiencing was normal. Usually, when we focus and want to get something instantly, it will be the short term happiness we get. It's like when you want to get promotion from your boss then you cheat means it won't be last longer. Or when you pursue your dreams seriously but you're neglecting your health and your relationship to your parents.... Will it be the real happiness when you can get those dreams?

the happiness outside us

One I finally realized everything which we usually define as happiness is always outside of us. And that's not last longer.

On the other hand, the real happiness is different with ‘normal’ happiness. The real happiness describes a deep sense of inner well-being, peace and vitality with you most of the time in most circumstances. People who experience real happiness, feel a deep sense of gratitude for simply being alive. Unlike normal happiness which comes and goes and is dependent on certain things happening, real happiness is independent of our life situation. This doesn’t mean you don’t feel anger, or sadness or fear. The real happy people have the ability to feel those emotions deeply and fully, but they don’t lose sight of themselves as they do, they remain aware and present to their thoughts and emotions without getting caught up in them.

But, is experiencing true happiness simply a case of changing our thoughts, being kind and living mindfully as some experts suggest? My experience is this – they are all important and all have a part to play, but alone they simply aren’t enough to experience the real happiness. 

my real happiness

Anyway, let me know if this post makes you happy or not. Feel free to share you comments. Cheers!

In The Middle of Mid-Test Week Post

Helloo everybody!

Finally I have time for my side pleasure, blogging! Feel so glad to know that I'm still survive until now :'. Yeah, welcome April! I just realized my last post was on February and there's no post on March. Maybe some of you wonder what I have been doing lately after my last post which is really hectic month for me. And I want to make some review of my latest activities since my last post on February. Check this out!!

1. Practicum and The Practicum Report

Yeah, the real 4th semester has just begun. I have to handle Food Processing Technology practicum and Biochemistry & Food Analysis practicum. FYI, practicum is fun and I really enjoy it, but not for the report we have to submit after the practicum. 

There are several reasons why I hate the practicum report. Most of them because it's tiring! Yeah, the report is not only contain the practicum results data, it also contains the procedure which has to be very detail from the preparation until result plus the equipment functions and the treatment functions. For  example, you have to explain in the procedure why you have to put the petri dish into oven for 1 hour. Why not 30 minutes? Yeah, you have to explain the treatment function. So tiring, isn't it? You also have many questions to answer based on the literature. There's also discuss the data section which you have to discuss. Usually not only our grup's data, but also from the other group. Can you imagine that? We have to discuss about data which we haven't done and compare it with the literatures. That's why usually the practicum report for one material is really thick. Really tiring, right?

2. Microbiology Lab Assistant

As I wrote before on my last post, I accepted as Microbiology Lab Assistant. I'm so grateful and proud of this chance. I learn so much from this job. Most of my free time I spent in the Microbiology Lab which lack of connection :(. After class usually I was scheduled to be a lab assistant. I enjoy it because I can spent my free time for useful things and earn too teehee

3. English Course

Actually this is really fun thing which makes me can release the stress from my activities. I also can improve my English, meet new friends, have discussion in English with people in different background. Everything is fun and relaxing. But, sometimes, my course schedule crashed with the replacement schedule from my lecture which makes me should choose the replacement class from the lecture and miss one meeting in the course :(. I want to change my course schedule so I can get both of them but now this kind condition has taught me the meaning of "Life is a Choice" :)

4. PKM FTP CERIA

This is the name of my PKM group on LINE. PKM a.k.a. Program Kreativitas Mahasiswa. It is really prestige competition in my faculty because if we're invited to PIMNAS (the final of PKM) we will be free from the thesis. So, in the middle of bustles above, I have to do this state madate. Like I wrote before on my last post, my PKM has funded by DIKTI alhamdulillah. We get 7 million actually but still 3 million we got. We have to maintain this 3 million so it won't deficit. Later I will tell you about the my PKM. Hopefully our team can solve the obstacles in front of us so we realize the proposal, invited to PIMNAS, and the main goal reached. Aamiin. 

Well I learn so much from those activities. It makes me read more books, curious more, and trying to push myself more. There's a quote that really affects me: If you fail to plan, you will plan to fail. So, I make list of my goals and achievements I have to get with details how to realize them. I hope everything is going well include my mid semester test too. Yeah, the whole activities above are postponed for a while in the middle semester test week. So, I have to focus now in my mid-semester test and hopefully the result will be perfectly "A" . Aamiin :))  

Anyway, that's all the activities I have been doing lately until now. I hope you enjoy my kind of diary post. See you!

I'M ON FIRE

Rasanya ingin ke pantai yang sepi lalu teriak sekencang - kencangnya.

Campur aduk.

Ya, semester 4 telah dimulai. Target di semester ini tentunya ingin belajar manajemen waktu yang lebih baik dan mengakhiri semester ini dengan IP 4 bulat. Yeah, semseter 4, IP 4 ! Aamiin yarabb.

Dari sebelum masuk kuliah, bahkan sudah merencanakan ingin mengambil mata kuliah apa saja untuk semester 4 dan beberapa semester selanjutnya. Meskipun ditakutin dengan tidak bisa lulus 3,5 tahun. Tapi bismillah I will success in my own way. On fire bangetlah pokoknya.

Namun, semangat on fire ku ini rasanya benar - benar diuji. Sebenarnya keputusan yang berat untuk hanya mengambil 21 SKS padahal bisa ambil 24 SKS. Tujuannya cuma satu, memenuhi ekspektasi kedua orang tua terhadap putri sulungnya ini. Cuma pengen naikin IP biar orang tua -setidaknya- ngga sedih. Hahaha.

Meski hanya 21 SKS, aku mengisi waktu luangku dengan melanjutkan les Bahasa Inggris soalnya sayang banget kalau ngga diasah terus menerus bisa menurunkan kemampuan. Sementara my big goal is travelling around the world so it is a must!

First I think, I still can handle it.

Selain skill bahasa, aku mencoba merealisasikan targetku selanjutnya untuk lebih kompeten di laboratorium dengan daftar Asisten Praktikum Mikrobiologi Umum. Daftar, screening, dan ternyata keterima. Alhamdulillah tapi sebenernya baru sadar bakal semakin banyak amanahnya. Astaghfirullah.

Bersamaan dengan semua itu, dapet kabar kalau PKM KC tim ku lolos pendanaan and it's another amanah. Kami harus memanfaatkan dana hibah dari DIKTI tersebut agar bisa merealisasikan alatnya, insya Allah. Alhamdulillah. Astaghfirullah.

Selama 2 hari ini jadi bener - bener istighfar terus. Sebenarnya aku pantas ngga sih mendapatkan berbagai macam amanah seperti ini?

Alhamdulillah sebenarnya aku bersyukur banget mendapatkan banyak kesempatan untuk mengisi kegiatan luang sebagai mahasiswa dengan hal - hal positif dan bermanfaat. Bayangkan bagaimana bingungnya pengangguran cari pekerjaan? Pasti rasanya langsung bersyukur sekali diberi banyak kesempatan yang menghasilkan.

Tetapi rasanya juga ingin istighfar berkali - kali. Sebenarnya apa yang akan direncanakan oleh Sang Maha Penguasa semesta dibalik semua karunia yang Dia berikan? Aku percaya bahwa semua yang telah ditetapkanNya adalah yang terbaik untuk hambaNya. Namun, sebagai hamba yang lemah dan tak berdaya tanpa kuasaNya, aku tentunya harus sadar diri. Pantes ngga sih aku mendapatkan banyak karunia dariNya sementara ibadahku masih kurang.

Rasanya seperti ditegur keras. Layaknya ditampar di pipi berkali - kali supaya sadar. Allah yang sudah demikian baik memberimu banyak hal namun tidak membuatmu tergerak memperbaiki ibadamu? Mencoba sedikit saja lebih dekat denganNya? Astaghfirullahaladziim.

Bismillah akan mecoba yang terbaik, selanjutnya semua diserahkan lagi kepada Allah.