Sadid's Blog

A dream is a succession of images, thoughts, sounds, or emotions passing through the mind during sleeping.

"A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are."

A senior once told, "They started reading week as the surveys and statistics show that people especially students killed themselves during this week".

So indirectly, this week is for us to loosen ourselves a bit from the stress and tension of exams or midterms.

Yesterday, I started my reading week with a trip to Rabbit Hill playing snowboard. I was so excited, it has been 2 weeks (which feels like a year [just wanna show how badly I wanna go for snowboarding]) that I haven't go out for snowboarding. It started of okay, I did a couple of run before I hit the ramp for jumping. My jump was okay, fell down twice. But then, I don't know, I was going for a small ramp with the normal speed which I used to go for a ramp, I was flying high, the thrill was awesome, but I landed badly, so much so that I landed on my chest and my face. My nose was bleeding, I was spitting out blood, my head feels really dizzy at that time, I couldn't breathe well. It was the first time ever that I had to lay for awhile after falling from a jump.

It was a terrible moment for me, but just wanna have a check on myself, I tried moving my nose to the right and left, just to make sure it doesn't broke, alhamdulillah it was okay. Then I tried feeling my teeth using my tounge, alhamdulillah no tooth fell out. I tried to get up and carve my way down the hill, and I feel okay. Then I took a rest for awhile, washed my face and my mouth and sit for a while with some friends. What makes it even better is that I lost my phone while snowboarding.

All that kinda reminded me on what my parents used to say "mula-mula gelak, nanti nangis", I think I was over-excited. That what makes it like what just happened I guess.

Now, I'm feeling a lot better after a goodnight sleep, and by the way, I got back my phone from a young Canadian boy, alhamdulillah. So its quite okay now.

Have a great reading week, go out and loosen yourself, but not too much, too much of anything is not good.

People like to compare things, stuff and sometimes themselves. What for?

I've been comparing myself and my friends, even talked to myself like " why haven't I studied 24/7 during my times in Taylor's, if I have, I'm sure to get more awards", something like that. I thought it was okay for me just to have that thought and nothing more, maybe just for inspiration to do even better here in U Of Alberta.

Just recently, I've read a hadith that goes,

"When one of you looks at one who stands at a higher level than you in regard to wealth and physical structure he should also see one who stands at a lower level than you in regard to these things."

Its hard to remain thankful to Allah if you keep on comparing ourselves to those who are given better wealth, nicer possessions, higher status, etc. All this is a common cause for us showing ingratitude towards Allah. We will then automatically disregards the blessings that Allah has bestow upon us. We fell like things are lacking in our lives.

Do remember that, Allah is the Originator of All that is Good / Khair. Nothing comes from him is not good. Maybe we tend to see something as bad, but little that we know, maybe its a blessing in disguise. So as a muslim, we should always say alhamdulillah for the things that we have and maybe the things we don't have.