A learning life is a true life.

Friday 10th June 2011, I joined in the ANU Alumni reunion party, for the first time. I got the forwarded mail unexpectedly but gladly enough to hear from my bedrock school. My life became stronger spiritually after spending my late teenager hood there.

Some say life is a long journey. Some say it is much shorter. I think it all depends on who and when this question is asked. If I am old and rich I might say life is too short. For a grieving and striving person, he or she may want a quick-to-the-end life.

I was in a middle path. Right now I am in a no-path at all. Life is a living sphere. We all have to endure it as well as to cheer up with it. It's just right there. Sometime we feel our own lives like we can feel a cool breeze in winter. Sometime even in a mid of the hottest day we may feel nothing. Life is inside us and we rarely touch and embrace it.

I am a middle age man, full of fear and confusion. There are days that I can't touch anything and there are nights I could not sleep. Sun makes me warm and home provides me with care. Without my family I wonder how can I survive alone in a world that so mean to me.

I love my mom, dad, brother, sisters, wife and daughters. Together they are one picture of environment which encircles me inside. Out there is also life. Another half of me, a little taste of bitterness which I must walk through.

I have climbed thousands of stairway. Each step takes away my age and gives me back experience. I have learned life in a hard way. Like a sword, it will become a weapon only until it was hit and put into a burning red colour. Sharpened with a tough stone, then it'll be invincible. Everyone has a tough stone in life. Whatsoever they are called, stone is hard, dry and heartless.

Unfortunately, I already have many stones come into my life. In a short term, it makes me weak, destroys my strength, and testifies my belief. Longer term, it is just a way I have to go.

That Friday night reminded me to all of these. Problem is nothing but a learning. And only a learning life is a true life. So welcome stones, I am right here awaiting for you. No matter how hard you hit me. I won't let myself die because I am too weak. You will only make me sharper, tougher, and stronger over time. I may forget this when I am older but scars you give me will always remind me of passed time.

Come and test me until my last breath, until the end of my life.