Hi,
Meet again.
We are now approaching the end of Ramadhan – the last and the most critical
parts of the month. Not many willing to keep up with the night activities like ‘tarawih’,
‘tadarus’ and such because of various reasons.
Anyhow, I
would like to talk about learning responsibility. What come across to our mind
I supposed is that the teacher has to shoulder all the responsibility of the
student’s learning. Last Saturday I was outstation in Segamat, Johor Malaysia. I
was accidently met with a guy, around 60’s, while having my supper at the mamak
stall. He looks sad and unhappy. We have a chat quite long until 12 am in the
morning. Among the story was that he was talking about his children as for him
has ‘abandoned’ him without reason. Now he stayed at home alone although some
of his children have the opportunity to look after him but neglected him
instead.
In regards
to education I would say that the children should understand and realised what
responsibility they should shoulder. They need to see their father in a
different way, however worse or bad the father have done according to their
perception, they still need to respect him as a person called father.
I still
remember myself saying something ‘unnecessary’ to my mom and I am still regretted
until now. It seems that asking apologies from my mom, whenever possible is not
enough to heal my mom’s feelings, although she knows that the incident happened
was unintentionally. I know my mom very well and she knows me too. But like I said
the forgiveness that my mom’s have given cannot replace the regret that develops
in my heart. To me now it is true that we cannot even say or showing a bad
attitudes or behaviours to our parents. Forgiveness granted still cannot heal
the cuts that created especially in our parents’ heart.
Abandoning or
neglecting parents as conclusion shouldn’t be happened nowadays. Our regret
will be higher especially when they are not here in this world anymore. I wish
I could help the man to get back his children and to tell the children how much
he loves them. For me, my dad now is not here as well as my mom, physically but
to me they always in my heart, close very close – just missed them. I wish this
story is reaching the people like the above family and learn a bit from it one
day.
See you
again in another issue.
Happy
Ramadhan and Eid Fitri.
Thank you.
