Posted by: eldien | February 26, 2010

Antara Pilihan dan Kesempatan

Ketika kita bertemu dengan orang yang tepat untuk dicintai,
Ketika kita berada di tempat pada saat yang tepat,
Itulah Kesempatan

Ketika kita bertemu degan seseorang yang membuatmu tertarik, itu bukan pilihan, itu kesempatan.
Bertemu dalam suatu peristiwa bukanlah pilihan, Itupun adalah kesempatan
Bila kita memutuskan untuk mencintai orang tersebut, bahkan dengan segala kekurangannya,
itu bukan kesempatan, itu adalah pilihan.

Ketika kita meimilih bersama dengan seseorang walaupun apapun yang terjadi, itu adalah pilihan
Bahkan ketika kita menyadari bahwa masih banyak orang lain yang lebih menarik, lebih pandai, lebih kaya, daripada pasanganmu, dan tetap memilih untuk mencintainya, Itulah pilihan.
Perasaan Cinta, Sumpatik, Tertarik, datang bagai kesempatan bagi kita.
Tetapi cinta sejati yang abadi adalah Pilihan. Pilihan yang kita lakukan.
Berbicara tentang pasangan jiwa, ada suatu kutipan dari film yang mungkin sangat tepat:
“Nasib membawa kita bersama, tetapi tetap tergantung pada kita bagaimana membuat semuanya berhasil”.
Pasangan jiwa bisa benar-benar ada.
Dan bahkan sangat mungkin ada seseorang yang diciptakan hanya untukmu.
Tetapi tetap berlpulang padamu
Untuk melakukan pilihan apakah engkau ingin
melakukan sesuatu untuk mendapatkannya atau tidak …
Kita mungkin kebetulan bertemu pasangan  jiwa kita,
tetapi mencintai dan tetap bersama dengan pasangan jiwa kita,
Adalah pilihan yang harus kita lakukan.

Kita ada di dunia ini bukan untuk mencari
seseorang yang sempurna untuk dicintai,
TETAPI untuk
belajar mencintai orang yang tidak sempurna
dengan cara yang sempurna.

– Anonymous–

Posted by: eldien | February 23, 2010

Hasrat Untuk Berubah

Ada sebuah artikel yang aku lupa dimana membacanya dan apa majalahnya. Diartikel tersebut terdapat ‘quote’ yang katanya diambil dari sebuah batu nisan di Eropa, kalo gak salah di Westminster Inggris,…

Isinya mengenai ‘Ibda’ binnafsi’…

HASRAT UNTUK BERUBAH
(Terukir di sebuah makam di Westminster Abbey, Inggris, 1100 M.)

Ketika aku masih muda dan bebas berkhayal,
Aku bermimpi ingin merubah dunia.
Seiring dengan bertambahnya usia dan kearifanku,
Kudapati bahwa dunia tidak kunjung berubah.

Maka cita-cita itu pun agak kupersempit,
Lalu kuputuskan untuk hanya mengubah negeriku.
Namun tampaknya,
Hasrat itu pun tiada hasilnya.

Ketika usiaku semakin senja,
Dengan semangatku yang masih tersisa,
Kuputuskan untuk mengubah keluargaku,
Orang-orang yang paling dekat denganku…

Tetapi celakanya,
Mereka pun tidak mau diubah!

Dan kini,
Sementara aku berbaring saat ajal menjelang,
Tiba-tiba kusadari ……:

“Andaikan yang pertama-tama kuubah adalah diriku,
Maka dengan menjadikan diriku sebagai panutan,
Mungkin aku bisa mengubah keluargaku.

Lalu berkat inspirasi dan dorongan mereka,
Bisa jadi aku pun mampu memperbaiki negeriku.

Kemudian siapa tahu,
Aku bahkan bisa mengubah dunia.

—————————-

Silahkan merenungkannya….

Posted by: eldien | February 22, 2010

eldien return

… Setelah berapa lama offline, alias jarang di update, maka kini tiba saatnya bagi ‘eldien.wordpress.com’ untuk kembali muncul ke dunia perblogan indonesia…

… Dengan semangat baru dan dengan tenaga baru.. tentunya dengan support dana yang baru… semoga kita bisa membangun negeri ini…

… Aku ada pesan buat semua penduduk Indonesia… ‘BUANGLAH SAMPAH PADA TEMPATNYA

Sekian dan terima kasih…. MERDEKA..

Posted by: eldien | February 22, 2010

Visions

Vision is The Art of Seeing Something Invisible

Vision looks inward and becomes Duty

Vision looks outward and becomes Aspiration

Vision looks upward and becomes Faith

Posted by: eldien | May 11, 2009

25 Reasons You Owe Your Mother…

1. My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE. “If you’re going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished cleaning.”

2. My mother taught me RELIGION. “You better pray that will come out of the carpet.”

3. My mother taught me about TIME TRAVEL. “If you don’t straighten up, I’m going to knock you into the middle of next week!”

4. My mother taught me LOGIC. “Because I said so, that’s why.”

5. My mother taught me MORE LOGIC. “If you fall out of that swing and break your neck, you’re not going to the store with me.” Read More…

Posted by: eldien | May 7, 2009

Climate Change History

Constant Climate Change: 4,000,000,000 years ago

Climate changes come in all sorts and sizes. Over the last few billion years our planet has ranged from being a global snowball to a world so warm that reptiles bathed in the sun in Antarctica, according to the geologic evidence. Life has always played a pivotal role in Earth’s climate, having been both driven to evolve by climate changes and an actual driver of climate change. Among the most important climate players have been those organisms that suck up the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from the air, deposit its carbon into the ground, and release oxygen into the atmosphere – a.k.a., plants, algae and other photosynthesizers. Over millions of years they enriched the atmosphere with oxygen, making animal life and a cooler world possible. Surprisingly, clay may have also played a big role. According to recent research, special clay minerals — made by soil microbes on land and washed into the seas – acted like “kitty litter” in the seas and absorbed vast quantities of oxygen-consuming organic carbon compounds. The minerals sank to the seafloor with their carbon loads and were buried.

Hothouse to Icehouse: 34,000,000 years ago

The stage was set for today’s climate 34 million years ago when the hothouse climate of the Eocene epoch gave way to the cooler Oligocene epoch, and it has been a cooler, icier planet ever since. The global shift was probably caused by continental drift — the movement of continents, which can rearrange the way air and water flow around the world. During the Eocene reptiles bathed in the sun on the shores of Antarctica. Then, rather rapidly, glaciers in the Antarctic mountains surged towards the sea and overtook the entire landscape. The continent has been locked in ice ever since. Elsewhere on Earth, the cooler global climate has been punctuated by many “interglacial” warm periods. We’re in an interglacial now. Read More…

Posted by: eldien | April 15, 2009

How to Survive: Water Sources

Valuable Water

Almost any environment has water present to some degree.

Note: If you do not have a canteen, cup, can or other type of container, improvise one from plastic or water-resistant cloth. Shape the plastic or cloth into a bowl by pleating it. Use pins or other suitable items — even your hands — to hold the pleats.

If you do not have a reliable source to replenish your water supply, stay alert for ways in which your environment can help you. Read More…

Posted by: eldien | December 26, 2008

On Earth, Evolution Booms in Bursts

AFP

Thr Forest

Dec. 23, 2008 — Life on Earth went from single microscopic cells to blue whales and giant sequoias in 3.5 billion years in two distinct bursts tied to the planet’s geological evolution, according to a new study.

The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, goes against the common hypothesis that life slowly evolved from a single-celled organism to complex multi-celled organisms.

“We were surprised to observe that nearly all of the increase in size occurred in two distinct time-intervals,” said Michal Kowalewski, a co-author of the study and professor of geosciences at Virginia Tech. Read More…

Posted by: eldien | December 26, 2008

Tropics Cooled by Volcanic Eruptions

Vulcano

Vulcano Eruption

Dec. 22, 2008Volcanic eruptions have periodically cooled the tropics over at least the last 450 years by spewing out particles that girdle the world at high altitude and reflect sunlight, according to a study released Sunday.

The research adds a chunk of regional evidence to earlier work that found major eruptions — such as Krakatoa, Indonesia, in 1883 and Huaynaputina, Peru, in 1600 — contribute to cooling on a worldwide scale. Read More…

Posted by: eldien | December 22, 2008

The Lab Called Krakatau

By Larry O’Hanlon

Krakatoa erupts, 1883

Krakatoa erupts, 1883

More than 120 years after it became a household name by blowing itself to smithereens, Krakatau (a.k.a. “Krakatoa”) and its ever-growing replacement, Anak Krakatau, have become persistent sources of scientific discovery.

To geologists and biologists, the new volcano is a rare window into Earth’s mantle and an ongoing natural experiment in catastrophe and resurrection. To tsunami scientists and climate researchers, the 1883 blast is revealing how all killer waves are not created equally and just how much volcanoes effect global climate. Read More…

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