Science and faith.

No, it’s not the name of The Script recent album although I do admire the immaculately awe-inspiring Irish band. Just the other day, I was having a contented afternoon lunch by the lake with Sam and Jimmy. It was after Solat Jumaat and the three of us waited for the ambiance to abate from all the hectic crowd. Grasping warily on where we should sit, my eye caught the table on the corner of the diner, just next to the illuminating lake. Jimmy broke the silence as he brought this idea on the contradiction between Science and Faith.

It’s not something new since people have been holding the two ideas since the Renaissance era. Whether it’s about neglecting one another or accentuating one idea, majority sees it as vastly incompatible. He was going on ambitiously, on how science corroborates reasons and cold hard facts while faith is correlated to emotions, feelings and sufficient evidence. Compelled to be heard, I brought on this idea of God’s spot and the simple logic of Science can’t explain everything and Faith is required in certain coincidences. 

God’s spot is believed to be located somewhere in the front hemisphere of the Cerebrum. No matter how much we don’t believe in god and how much an atheist we wish we could be, in the back of our mind, we still believe in a divine power to perform miracle in our life, somewhere we can turn to when everything seems to be gone astray. When you’re at the side of the bed, crying as your father fight for his next breath after a car accident, this would be the time where you would just dropped to your knee, raise your hand, wishing god to help him make it through, wishing for god’s miracle to work its way and make everything’s okay again. That’s how you know that God’s spot exist. All you need is just a little bit of faith.

Or maybe when the time you’re anxiously waiting for your examination results. The result is absolutely significant to you as it determines what you’ll be wearing in the next 20 years. After it’s all set and done, there’s not a single thing that man and all of his technologies can do to change what’s written. At this point, God’s spot play it’s role and the only one you can turn to is just God himself. I can tell you that there’s no scientific explanation or logical reasoning to explain such phenomenon. 

At the end of the day, we realized that science itself requires faith and it will eventually lead you back to Quran. So we settled down the evening chat with the simple statement of some questions are better left unanswered.

Relationship

As we grow up and make our way down the path of life, we learn new things. One of the most unforgettable events in our life is probably falling in love. Having a crush is normal but taking one step further is another thing. As a teenager myself, I can’t deny the fact that I also tried to be in a relationship, just so curious and compelled to know of what does it feels like to be in love. Well I can tell you one thing; the feeling is simply unexplainable and euphoric.

But let’s be clear about what really happened. Society agreed that as human beings, we all have crushes, and when the right time comes, you’ll be in a situation called ‘puppy love’. One thing about puppy love is that the chance of it surviving is pretty slight and most would end up with heartbreaks. You may lose at dice, but you won’t lose everything; eventually, you’ll gain experience that will make you realize it’s not just about mutual love, it’s also about working things out and to always compromise . But it’s just safe to say that it’s not time yet for us to start a relationship; we have other focus and goals to reach and being in another obligation only confines our maximum potential and commitment in life. The very nature of relationship itself is a drawback, if it works, you’ll get married, if it doesn't, you’ll be enemy (mostly) So for the time being, just reach for the sky and be as successful as you possibly can, the sky is the limit, fly like a bird and sting like the bee, once you had it all, people will come to you and started to get crazy over you.

I know that it doesn’t make sense a bit but heck that’s what emotion is; they’ll leave you bamboozled, twisting and turning and tangled for a few hours before getting you back where you started again. The secret of a happy relationship or marriage is just falling in love again and again, with the same person. And if there are still questions playing in your head, just ask your mom, “Mom, how did you know that Dad was the right one?” Chances are, if you play your cards right, the answer might just be the formula of an eternal love. And don’t worry if you get your heart broken because there’s always someone out there with enough superglue to paste it back in shape.

When i was small...

When I was small, somewhere before kindergarten, I do have things that I used to think about and kept playing in my under-developed mind. Reminiscing back the old day can be something so nostalgic and heart-tickling at time. But you know what they say, treasure those moments because you only get to be a child once. Childhood is not born at birth nor is it developed – It’s like a soul that gracefully sweep in the life of young ones and becomes a kingdom where no one dies.

And so I sat one day on that wooden-calibrated chair that was probably around before I was born. It’s funny how it felt just like yesterday when I fell asleep in mom’s lap after tired of playing and fooling around on that very chair.

Though I was always to scare and anxious if I fall asleep too early, earlier than mom did because I was afraid of seeing unwanted things that mom didn’t. At that time around, I always contemplated that the singer had to sing directly in the radio when it was their song that was on air, and that Ultraman had to act and fight all over again if I pressed rewind. I even tried to grasp warily on each and every of his action and caught myself flabbergasted when he performed the same act perfectly.

Mom never let me played with scissors back then and I used to think of it as a motorcycle or a bike when you spread the leg wide open and make the holder as the wheel. Every time Mom takes me shopping, I would stand behind the concave plastic panel of the miniature hotel or building at the real estate booth - It's just so imaginative to see those tiny cars and roads being paved nicely almost like a toy. In the Taxi, i always got myself drenched in my own imagination and playful notion when i scrutinize that green-galloping horse on the meter. Too bad that those moment had to go and become part of our life and history. My advice is that they may cry, they may get on your nerve, but don’t take their childhood from them because they only get it once.