Often i wonder about the age of time...since the arriving of Adam & Hawa (Adam & Eve) upon the face of the Earth to the day we are now. How many years have that been? How we are linked to every person next to us. Whether it is our family...neighbour...or the unknown stranger that we passed by without speaking a word when we walk at the night market.
One fine day when i manage to find myself some time to open the family album, i came across the pictures of some people whom i've never met since the day i was born. Those were the pictures of my great grandparents. Capture in the frame of time...immortalized to a piece of paper to be viewed and remembered by those who were closed to them...and to be kept in the history of of the faculty of the mind of their children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and generations after them.
Then i realize that humans like us have a limited lifespan with regards to many things that is yet to explored in this world. The important of learning and to save a record of daily achievement that we have done so that when we looked back to the history of time...we are satisfied to what have we achieved that makes us what we are now.
As far as the history of my life and my bloodlines are concerned...almost every one of us has left their name remembered in the history of time. Too bad that we dont have a last name to support our evidence but this can only be remedied from the pictures taken and the DNA which is a valid identification of our existance.
Since young, my parents often brought me to meet my grandparents, granduncles & grandaunties, and generations after them. According to my dad, we must meet them as they were what were are like now in relation to our relationship of siblings and the main family. Not meeting them is a selfish manner one can show to them and it is not what we should do in respect of the elders in the members of the family.
As the day come to pass, each of us are getting more busier, every one of us got things to do with their time. Uncles and aunties are busy with their working careers and began to live at some place which is near to their workplace. Cousins pursuing their education at the tertiary education. Their younger siblings heading to school etc. So the only time that we can meet and have a good chat is only during the festive month of Hari Raya aka Aidilfitri which falls on the month of Syawal according to the Islamic calendar ie the month after we make an effort of fasting for a month during Ramadhan ie the holiest month of the Islamic calendar.
Last Raya, i manage to talk to my granduncle about my project to make a family tree. The reason of why i'm doing this is not only to get to know my relatives better but to keep as a record for the generations after me so that they will remember where they had come from. Tok Uteh were delighted to hear such thing and looking forward in supporting me with the project. Thus begin a journey and a mission for myself to make a long list of scroll which contain the family tree of my bloodlines.
Some might not bothered with the project but i see it a great respect and an obligation towards my family so that they will not forget what history had written or bear witness of our achievement in life.
Thus begin project "Bloodlines: Their Name & History That They Left Behind"
One fine day when i manage to find myself some time to open the family album, i came across the pictures of some people whom i've never met since the day i was born. Those were the pictures of my great grandparents. Capture in the frame of time...immortalized to a piece of paper to be viewed and remembered by those who were closed to them...and to be kept in the history of of the faculty of the mind of their children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and generations after them.
Then i realize that humans like us have a limited lifespan with regards to many things that is yet to explored in this world. The important of learning and to save a record of daily achievement that we have done so that when we looked back to the history of time...we are satisfied to what have we achieved that makes us what we are now.
As far as the history of my life and my bloodlines are concerned...almost every one of us has left their name remembered in the history of time. Too bad that we dont have a last name to support our evidence but this can only be remedied from the pictures taken and the DNA which is a valid identification of our existance.
Since young, my parents often brought me to meet my grandparents, granduncles & grandaunties, and generations after them. According to my dad, we must meet them as they were what were are like now in relation to our relationship of siblings and the main family. Not meeting them is a selfish manner one can show to them and it is not what we should do in respect of the elders in the members of the family.
As the day come to pass, each of us are getting more busier, every one of us got things to do with their time. Uncles and aunties are busy with their working careers and began to live at some place which is near to their workplace. Cousins pursuing their education at the tertiary education. Their younger siblings heading to school etc. So the only time that we can meet and have a good chat is only during the festive month of Hari Raya aka Aidilfitri which falls on the month of Syawal according to the Islamic calendar ie the month after we make an effort of fasting for a month during Ramadhan ie the holiest month of the Islamic calendar.
Last Raya, i manage to talk to my granduncle about my project to make a family tree. The reason of why i'm doing this is not only to get to know my relatives better but to keep as a record for the generations after me so that they will remember where they had come from. Tok Uteh were delighted to hear such thing and looking forward in supporting me with the project. Thus begin a journey and a mission for myself to make a long list of scroll which contain the family tree of my bloodlines.
Some might not bothered with the project but i see it a great respect and an obligation towards my family so that they will not forget what history had written or bear witness of our achievement in life.
Thus begin project "Bloodlines: Their Name & History That They Left Behind"
3 comments:
A well written post, i'd say.
If you'd like to know the age of the earth, i'd be glad to tell you the story! (a plus point for being a geology student...hehe)
well done!
Hahaha...doesn't start with the Big Bang Theory? Or was it the Brits told u to believe the science nature of Darwin's theory?
Crazy westerner!
I guess it's really unfair for the Muslims to treat Darwin nowadays.
There are underlying historical reasons why he came up with such revolutional idea.
Still, at the moment, i still find his theory to be geologically reasonable, despite being genetically unproven.
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