Human Being, A Creature who Can Adapt to Anything
As I watched Chris Hadfield story on Youtube when he gave his thoughts in Ted Talk, i wonder. Can people really survive in no gravity environment when people can’t walk and just floating around? Can you imagine how they take a bath or how they sleep? God, they must be so confuse and disoriented. Yet indeed, people do can survive in harsh environment like that. Chris said that eventually they get used to it. Astronaut body, which is also a human being like us, started to notice the different and amazingly adapt to it.
I kept what Chris have been said deep in my heart and i can’t agree more. I am currently 25 year old woman and in this quarter life i have had been living in many circumstances. I left my house when i was just graduating from junior high to a strange place which i never could imagine. As a 15 year old girl, i traveled 250 km from my born-and-raised home to pursue better education which also meant to life alone by myself. Several weeks had passed, as a result, I didn’t understand the language, i didn’t know how to talk to people, and i couldn’t understand the lessons in school. Afterwards, i told my mom all my condition and she just cried. She cried for several days, and my sister told me that mom felt sorry for sent me so far away and as she felt guilty, she couldn’t eat and started to became ill.
As i felt sorry for my mom and blamed myself for telling her my obstacles, i started to push myself to adjust in that new place. I started to learn the language, made new friends, always asked when i didn’t understand even a little thing. Alhamdulillah, in three months i already felt comfortable and was continuing high school with just fine. I graduated high school with good grades, perfect score in my national exam, and i could make my parents proud on my school graduation.
Time has passed, and now i already in my third job as a technical staff in one of state-owned corporate which engaged in housing and property business. As i have difficulties in life, i always look back to that moment. My first out-of-my-comfort-zone, my first time i made my mom cry. The more we get older, the harder the obstacles will be. Even though i always remember that i, my self, is consist of million cells which fight for my life and they always try the best in every circumstances. Maybe i will get down in life, sometimes i will sad and disappointed but i will always know that i will survive. I can survive. One day i can be so happy like on top of the world, one day i just want to cry in my room all day and that’s fine. That’s life, and human being always dynamic. Maybe someday i will move to better job, or move to another city, but for sure i know i will be okay. Because i have Allah and then my self and then million cells in my body that support me.
For all of you who accidentally read this to the very end, and you happen to be in rough time, just hang in there. You will be okay, the storm will pass and the sun will rise, i guarantee you. Because we are human being, the most adaptable creature on earth, we will always find the way.
