"Meski kita tidak tahu dimana keberadaan rezeki kita, tapi rezeki kita tahu dimana kita berada. Dia akan datangi kita sebagaimana titipan Tuhan kepadanya." --Iman Al Gazali
One day, my roommate told me: “Fik, you should take a rest. You have been working too long, take a break and don’t be too hard to yourself.” I suddenly stop writing and calculating some math on GRE problem sets—at that time, I was preparing for my PhD application. Her thoughts about how hard I worked stopped me for seconds and gave me time to think and ask, “Have I been working too hard?” I personally never think that I work ‘hard enough’, I always feel never enough in working. I always demand more to myself to improve my quality to be a better person. I take everything very seriously including something very small for others. To me, there is no unnecessary thing. Everything is important, and everything has its own value. And I will be taking every single work I have seriously, even it is only doing some dishes at my kitchen home. My roommate’s perspective then made me really counted the duration I was studying, the number of problem sets I had solved, and how...
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