THE WOMAN IS LIKE WATER-LILY FLOWER

Still remember when I was a kid, my grandmother told me that a woman be like a water-lily. Since the water-lily is very beautiful and glorious.

Do you know the water-lily? It is a water plant that floats on the pond. Lotus (Nymphaea) is a genus of aquatic plants from Nymphaeaceae. Its Flower are on the surface of the water, have brightly colored petals such as red, yellow, purple and white and have full circle flower. Water-lily is unique, and able to survive in a place that is not feasible and able to remain strong in all odds.

Although there are plenty of fish in the pond and the water surging in the wind, but water-lily still sturdy upright on the water surface. So did women, although many obstacles and temptations, but women must still endure, strong and sturdy in her life .

Although sometimes pool water was dirty and muddy, but water-lily still produce pretty and beauty flower. Flowers are colorful without being influenced by the dirty water pond where the water-lily lives. As well as woman, although she lives in an environment that does not support her and lives in the environment are always blocking her life, but she was still able to maintain the honor, dignity and be able to keep her honor to be holy, pure and beautiful.

The water-lily is also able to deliver oxygen to the environment that the fish in the pond even bother its stems. This shows that women are able to give kindness and affection to the nearest person, such as husband and her children and her extended family. In fact she was able to give kindness to others. Women should be able to share for the good things and she could mean for others.

Everyone needs a sacrifice to take a water-lily flower because it lives in the middle pond and difficult to reach. But it is very attractive and beautiful. So also a woman, she  keep herself and her honor, so that only certain people who can be approached. And, some people who have good intentions that can only be approached and got her.

Sometimes people do not realize the beauty of water-lily in the pond because they only see the fish in the pond. But there is only one who will be able to see the beauty of them. This shows that only a few people realize that this woman is highly meaningful and highly valuable, hard to dispose her and hard to forget her.

Women like the water-lily mean women are sturdy, strong and always maintain her dignity and her honor and be able to share the goodness with the people and the environment. Women are beautiful and graceful with all the beauty and has a respectable attitude in her.

But it's hard to be a woman like a water-lily, sometimes I was also tempted and unable to cope with the environment and momentary pleasures in the world. I am still trying and keeping to be a woman who always maintain the honor and pride and always share kindness to other. So, we will be better in our life.

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Wanita Ibarat Bunga Teratai

 Saya masih ingat waktu kecil nenek bilang bahwa jadilah wanita seperti bunga teratai. Karena bunga teratai sangat cantik dan mulia.

Tahukah anda dengan bunga teratai? Teratai adalah tanaman air yang bunganya mengapung di atas kolam. Teratai (Nymphaea) adalah genus untuk tanaman air dari suku Nymphaeaceae (Water-Lily). Bunga terdapat di atas permukaan air, kelopak bersemu merah berwarna, putih hingga kuning dan berbentuk lingkaran penuh. Bunga teratai adalah bunga yang unik, dan mampu bertahan hidup di tempat yang tidak layak dan mampu tetap kuat didalam segala rintangan.

Walaupun di kolam terdapat banyak ikan dan air yang bergelombang ditiup angin, namun bunga teratai tetap tegak kokoh di permukaan air. Begitu juga wanita, walaupun banyak halangan dan godaan serta rintangan, namun wanita harus tetap bertahan, kuat dan kokoh dalam kehidupannya

Walaupun air kolam kadang kotor dan berlumpur namun tetap menghasilkan bunga yang bersih dan sangat cantik. Bunga yang berwarna-warni tanpa terpengaruh oleh kotornya air kolam tempat hidup teratai tersebut. Begitu juga wanita walaupun hidup di dalam lingkungan yang tidak mendukungnya dan lingkungan yang selalu menghalangi kehidupnanya, namun dia tetap mampu menjaga kehormatan, harga diri dan mampu tetap bersih, suci dan cantik.

Bunga teratai juga mampu memberikan oksigen kepada lingkungannya yaitu kepada ikan-ikan yang ada di kolam sekalipun ikan tersebut mengganggu batang bunga teratai tersebut. Hal ini menunjukkan bahwa wanita mampu memberikan kebaikan dan kasih sayangnya kepada orang terdekatnya seperti suami dan anak-anaknya serta keluarga besarnya. Bahkan dia mampu memberikan kebaikan kepada orang lain. Mampu memberikan kehidupan bagi suami dan anak-anaknya. Untuk itu wanita harus mampu berbagi untuk kebaikan sehingga wanita bisa berarti bagi lainnya.

Kadang orang tidak menyadari keindahan teratai dalam kolam, karena mereka hanya focus melihat ikan yang ada dalam kolam. Namun hanya ada seseorang yang nantinya mampu melihat keindahan bunga teratai tersebut di tengah kolam. Hal ini menunjukkan bahwa hanya sedikit orang yang menyadari bahwa wanita ini sangat berarti dan sangat berharga sehingga sulit untuk dilepaskan.

Wanita seperti bunga teratai berarti wanita yang kokoh, kuat dan selalu menjaga harga diri dan kehormatannya serta mampu berbagi kebaikan dengan orang terdekat dan lingkungannya. Wanita yang cantik dan anggun dengan segala keindahan yang ada dalam dirinya dan memiliki sikap terhormat dalam dirinya.

Namun memang sulit untuk menjadi wanita seperti bunga teratai, kadang saya juga tergoda dan tidak mampu untuk menghadapi lingkungan dan cobaan serta kesenangan sesaat yang ada di dunia. Namun tetap berusaha untuk menjadi wanita yang selalu menjaga kehormatan dan harga dirinya.

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LOVE AND HATE

In our lives there is a sense of love and hate. Love and hate are two opposites thing. Love and hate feeling likes and dislikes, feeling wants and not wants. Love will come when what expected to happen and they are ready to risk anything happening. While hatred came at what was expected did not happen and we will try to reply and wreak this hatred.

Love and hate are not always hand in hand, sometimes begins with a sense of love and end up with hatred, or sometimes begins with a sense of hate and will end up with love. Between love and hate, surely we are all hoping to love. But some people say that because hatred is love appears.

Love and hate not only against their fellow human beings, but it can be attended in various ways, for example to other living things, position in office or any other matter. For love we are willing to do anything to get it because our love can survive. Hate makes people capable of doing a thing that is not fair to excite a sense of hatred.

For whom love and hate we give so that there are no mistakes in implementation? Love and hate can we apply for all things for God. We can love something and hate it because God does not like it. If we love someone because of God, it is better and show our faith in God. Maybe me, you or anyone else ever loved someone, but try to think again, try to get positive thinking from it. We think that if it believed absolutely in love for God or just a desire that one day will be lost. How wonderful if they love something for God. Me, you and the others must have sinned and wrong in expressing love for something, without our knowing it, it's just passion and emotion to get the thrill of the moment.

Love can be worship, which is the foundation of our faith in God. Love that shirk is loving than God or exceed his love for God. Love that vice is love that violate prohibitions God and left all the commandments of God. Love that is a character or attitude of the love that everyone cannot be separated from it, such as love for food, drinks, marriage, clothing, family, wife, husband, children and so on.

Yes that is the love and hatred. But we have to know and understand what love and hate it. Now, we can start with love even end up with hatred. But we always hope no hatred in our hearts. Unless we hate it because God hates it. We begin with love to God and forget love is passion and emotional to get the thrill of the moment.

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CINTA DAN BENCI

  

Didalam kehidupan kita ada rasa cinta dan benci. Cinta dan benci adalah dua hal yang bertolak belakang. Rasa cinta dan benci ibarat perasaan yang disukai dan tidak disukai, perasaan yang diinginkan dan yang tidak dinginkan. Cinta akan datang disaat apa yang diharapkan terjadi dan mereka siap dengan resiko apapun yang terjadi. Sedangkan rasa benci datang disaat apa yang diharapkan tidak terjadi dan kita akan berusaha untuk membalas dan meluapkan rasa benci ini.

Rasa cinta dan benci tidak selalu beriringan, kadang berawal dari adanya rasa cinta dan berakhir dengan rasa benci, atau kadang berawal dari adanya rasa benci dan akan berakhir dengan rasa cinta. Diantara cinta dan benci, pasti kita semua mengharapkan adanya rasa cinta. Namun ada yang bilang bahwa karena benci lah rasa cinta muncul.

Rasa cinta dan benci bukan hanya ditujukan kepada sesama manusia, namun dapat ditujukan pada berbagai hal, misalnya kepada makhluk hidup lainnya, kepada pekerjaan, jabatan atau pun hal lain. Karena cinta kita rela melakukan apa saja untuk mendapatkannya. Karena cinta kita mampu bertahan disampingnya. Lain halnya dengan benci. Benci membuat orang mampu melakukan hal-hal yang tidak wajar demi meluapkan rasa kebenciannya.

Untuk siapakah rasa cinta dan benci kita berikan agar tidak salah dalam penerapannya? Cinta dan benci dapat kita terapkan untuk semua hal karena Tuhan. Kita dapat mencintai sesuatu hal karena Tuhan dan membencinya karena Tuhan tidak menyukainya. Jika kita mencintai seseorang karena Tuhan, hal ini lebih baik dan menunjukkan keimanan kita kepada Tuhan. Mungkin saya, Anda atau siapa saja pernah mencintai seseorang, tapi coba telaah lagi, coba yakini lagi apakah itu benar-benar cinta karena Allah ataukah hanya sebuah nafsu yang suatu saat akan hilang. Alangkah indahnya jika mencintai sesuatu hal karena Tuhan. Saya, Anda dan yang lainnya pasti pernah berbuat dosa dan salah dalam menyatakan cinta kepada sesuatu hal yang tanpa kita ketahui hal itu hanyalah suatu nafsu dan emosi sesaat untuk mendapatkan kesenangan sesaat.

Cinta ada beberapa bagian, diantaranya cinta yang bersifat ibadah yang merupakan landasan iman dan tauhid kita. Cinta yang syirik yaitu mencintai selain Tuhan atau melebihi kecintaannya kepada Allah. Cinta yang maksiat yaitu cinta yang melanggar larangan-larangan Tuhan dan meninggalkan segala perintahNya. Cinta yang merupakan tabiat yaitu cinta yang setiap orang tidak lepas darinya seperti cinta kepada makanan, minuman, pernikahan, pakaian, keluarga, istri, suami, anak dan sebagainya.

Ya itulah rasa cinta, disamping hal ada rasa benci yang sangat bertolak belakang dengan rasa cinta. Namun kita harus mengerti dan memahami apa rasa benci dan cinta itu, mulai sekarang kita mulailah dengan rasa cinta walaupun berakhir dengan rasa benci, namun kita selalu berharap rasa benci tidak ada dalam hati kita. Kecuali benci karena Tuhan benci akan hal tersebut. Kita mulai dengan rasa cinta kepada Tuhan dan melupakan rasa cinta karena nafsu dan emosi untuk kesenangan sesaat.

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THE USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA

Human was created by God to live together and coexist. They will not be able to life alone. They need friends to share for the better life. Me, you, our brother, our sister, and all of people are need friends to share. We were created by God has excess and lack in our life, by sharing excess can cover lack in our life. Sharing can be done in term of matter, mind and feelings.

Have you ever thought about sharing with others using the social media via internet? I am sure you have followed the social media, that connects you with your friends who you know or not. Currently, there are many kinds of social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Friendster, WeChat, Skout, Skype, Meet 24, and many other social media. Users do not only come from the same country but can connect with users from another country that they are unknown each other.

Social Media is an online media, with its users can easily participate, share, and create content includes blogs, social networks, wikis, forums and virtual worlds. Blogs, social networks and wikis is a form of social media most commonly used by people all over the world. Starting from the communication, sharing and friendship, for example, communicate via chat and sharing of data, images and all of the facilities provided by the social media.

I also users of social media. Maybe it could be regarded as a social media addict. For example, facebook, blogs and twitter. I can connect with friends via social media. Many of the experiences gained from this social media among friends, love, dating and marriage. It's crazy, I was the victim of social media, through social media, first time I knew my husband until we were married. I Got new friends from local or abroad through social media. I share my stories and experiences as well as via social media. A lot of positive things we can get from social media. Starting from sharing knowledge, life and love, get friendship and find our loved via social media.

In my experience, I use social media primarily chatting and blogging, I can get many friends, many knowledge,and many experiences in life and love. Beside that, we also have to be careful in using it, because it deals with people we do not know yet. Many victims of abuse of social media, especially sexual abuse and pornography (cyberbullying). Users of Social Media can send photos, videos and their voices. Each user would have to present itself as the best in social media, from photos and writings to attract other users.

However many mistakes in using social media, such as to make pleasure and satisfaction shortly. So there are a lot of cases of pornography and sexual harassment visually. According to the research, more women are using social networking sites, because they want more attention, especially by men. They give the impression of a very interesting and appearances from the photographs on display, video and other appearances that unwittingly attract and invite other users, especially men. So that more women become victims of social media use in the case of pornography and sexual harassment (cyberbullying).

On the other hand, we didn't realize that we spend more time while using social media, sometime we rare give attention to families, be aloner, and accidental spread of the secret datas, then lack of communication with others in the community. So, we are as social media users should follow the norms and rules and use it for something positive, such as just for storing data, photos and videos, share important information, create discussion groups and other positive things.

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