My Trip to Houston Texas & Life Lesson 1

In this post, I would like to take myself to when I was in one of the journey I have made during my young adult time. I was just around 23 years old, female, and that was my first time travelling so far away from home. It is exactly 15,921 km distance between where I left my family and friends to the destination. It was my very first experience catching a flight, making a long journey. I have never felt so excited and scared at the same time, before. The travel that requires me to be away for almost 10 weeks at a place where I have never been to, seems difficult for me to unravel.

I've met some companions along my journey during the transit in Doha International Airport, which happen to be my future colleagues, at that time. There are six of us, all coming from Asia, travelling to Houston, Texas, USA. We are supposed to be trained as an offshore personnel working as Field Geophysicist on-board any fleet that we will be assigned to.

Upon reaching Houston, it was still winter and the weather is nothing compared to where I was from. February temperature in that part of the world is so cold and humid to my Asian body type. I remember being fetched by our supervisor and he took us to Alta Royal Oaks Apartment where we had stayed for 2 months.

The total travelling time was exactly 23 hours and at that moment, I haven't realized that I will have more of this kind of journey as I have ventured into being an International Traveler for another 3 to 4 years. There I was attending class during my 8 to 5 working hours at the office. Learning, studying and preparing for the cause. While at the same time, socializing with all good people around me. It wasn't hard, but it was also not an easy one either. 

This life changing experience that I had really had brought me into being such an open minded person. I remember how I always felt like being sent away alone that had kept me in between the positive and the negative arguments between my-old-self and everything with it against my-new-self and also everything that comes with it. To keep them in balance, to really make sure that I will not let myself astray is definitely not an effortless task. 

I would have listed down all the arguments that I had, the challenges I have faced, and all the happiness, regrets that I may have also had, but I would rather not. Hence, I had chosen to cherish all the good and positive outcome from it and learn from the past experience which I know that was what had brought me to where I am right now. Life lesson no. 1 that I could point out from this life adventure that I had and of course there should be more to it, but this gem that I have kept as my principle is this;

"A failure is not a loss. It's a gain. You learn. You change. You grow. - Anonymous"

It is true enough that I have never scared to make mistakes. Because I know that there are so much that I could learn from it, I will change and I will always grow.

Say it, then Do it..

Bismillahi Ar-Rahman Ar-Rahim..

Assalamu'alaikum wa Rahmatullahhiwabarakaatuh..

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I'm so tired of Facebook, and I'm so tired of Twitter, though I'm not actively using it as a field to express my feeling, It's more than enough for me to say that I've had enough.. Just by seeing all the posts.. All the comments.. which I found some of them are really annoying.. or even worst hurt other's feeling.. Those with full of sentiments, those with not so great make-face picture or even the low-morality one.. (I wonder if I have ever posted something that has made people go sick, but not to what I remember at least)

Seriously, there are just too many hypocrites in this life.. you heard me right.. hypocrites.. u, u, u, n me me me.. all we are.. We've said something, but we're not following them.. We give advice, but we're not using them, We've promised, but we're breaking them, we've told other people about good thing but we're doing something bad. Na'udzubillah.

Have we thought about getting back on the right track? If we do then we're just one step closer towards our own success.. Do not care about other people.. They are not responsible for who we are, what we did and whatever comes after this. It is we who decide, and the impact will be with us as well..

Let's us hand-in-hand.. (mahram only) together, towards being honest with ourselves first.. Then, to other people.. It is to our own-selves that suppose to matter most for us. Because if we're not being honest to ourselves, then how do we trust ourselves and if we don't trust ourselves, how do we ever gonna be confident with ourselves therefore effectively giving advice and saying something good to other people. Yep, if not, we're just like the others, words with nothing. Even we put up some good word, it is just a word in writing.. Not the words that can go into the heart, that can change into action.

Wallahualam,

Love,
HOSS