Lentera

Banyak orang masuk ke dalam kehidupan kita, satu demi satu datang dan pergi silih berganti. Ada yang tinggal untuk sementara waktu dan meninggalkan jejak-jejak di dalam hati kita dan tak sedikit yang membuat diri kita berubah.
Alkisah seorang tukang lentera di sebuah desa kecil, setiap petang lelaki tua ini berkeliling membawa sebuah tongkat obor penyulut lentera dan memanggul sebuah tangga kecil. Ia berjalan keliling desa menuju ke tiang lentera dan menyandarkan tangganya pada tiang lentera, naik dan menyulut sumbu dalam kotak kaca lentera itu hingga menyala lalu turun, kemudian ia panggul tangganya lagi dan berjalan menuju tiang lentera berikutnya.
Begitu seterusnya dari satu tiang ke tiang berikutnya, makin jauh lelaki tua itu berjalan dan makin jauh dari pandangan kita hingga akhirnya menghilang ditelan kegelapan malam. Namun demikian, bagi siapapun yang melihatnya akan selalu tahu kemana arah perginya pak tua itu dari lentera-lentera yang dinyalakannya.
Penghargaan tertinggi adalah menjalani kehidupan sedemikian rupa sehingga pantas mendapatkan ucapan: “Saya selalu tahu kemana arah perginya dari jejak-jejak yang ditinggalkannya. “
Seperti halnya perjalanan si lelaki tua dari satu lentera ke lentera berikutnya, kemanapun kita pergi akan meninggalkan jejak. Tujuan yang jelas dan besarnya rasa tanggung jawab kita adalah jejak-jejak yang ingin diikuti oleh putera puteri kita dan dalam prosesnya akan membuat orang tua kita bangga akan jejak yang pernah mereka tinggalkan bagi kita.
Tinggalkanlah jejak yang bermakna, maka bukan saja kehidupan anda yang akan menjadi lebih baik tapi juga kehidupan mereka yang mengikutin

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New 7 Wonders of Nature - 3 Nominees from Indonesia

The world is now voting for the New 7 Wonders of Nature.
Vote for Indonesia's best natural wonders. There are 3 nominees from Indonesia.
Visit the following website to cast your votes :

http://www.new7wonders.com/nature/en/vote_on_nominees/



Komodo National Park, National Park














Indonesia’s Komodo National Park includes the three larger islands Komodo, Rinca and Padar, as well as numerous smaller ones, for a total area of 1,817 square kilometers (603 square kilometers of it land). The national park was founded in 1980 to protect the Komodo dragon. Later, it was also dedicated to protecting other species, including marine animals. The islands of the national park are of volcanic origin.


Krakatau, Volcanic Islands














Nestled between the large Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra is the Krakatau Volcano National Park. In the fourth century, a single marine volcano stood at this site, but in 416 A.D., the caldera of the volcano collapsed. The remnants formed a new caldera, or volcanic feature formed by the collapse of land following an eruption, around 7 km in diameter, with the peak’s remnants becoming the three islands of Verlaten, Lang and Krakatau. This volcano remnant was not dormant, however, and in August 1883, the volcano on Krakatau erupted with such violence that the sound was heard as far away as Madagascar and Alice Springs, Australia, thousands of km away. It was one of the largest terrestrial explosions in recorded history. The eruption also caused a tsunami 40 m high. Since 1927, continued eruptions and outflow material has formed a fourth island in the park, Anak Krakatau, or “Child of Krakatau.”



Lake Toba














Lake Toba is the largest volcanic lake in the world. At 100 km long and 30 km wide, measuring 505 m at its deepest point, it is situated in the middle of the northern part of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Surrounded by tall mountains, it cradles the large island of Samosir in its middle.


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Better To Give Than To Receive

A young man, a student in one of our universities, was one day taking a
walk with a professor, who was commonly called the student's friend,
from his kindness to those who waited on his instructions. As they went
along, they saw lying in the path a pair of old shoes, which they
supposed to belong to a poor man who was employed in a field close by,
and who had nearly finished his day's work.

The student turned to the professor, saying: "Let us play the man a
trick: we will hide his shoes, and conceal ourselves behind those
bushes, and wait to see his perplexity when he cannot find them." "My
young friend," answered the professor, "we should never amuse ourselves
at the expense of the poor. But you are rich, and may give yourself a
much greater pleasure by means of this poor man. Put a coin in each
shoe, and then we will hide ourselves and watch how this affects him."
The student did so and they both placed themselves behind the bushes
close by. The poor man soon finished his work, and came across the field
to the path where he had left his coat and shoes.

While putting on his coat he slipped his foot into one of his shoes, but
feeling something hard, he stooped down to feel what it was, and found
the coin. Astonishment and wonder were seen upon his countenance. He
gazed upon the coin, turned it around, and looked at it again and again.
He then looked around him on all sides, but no person was to be seen. He
now put the money into his pocket, and proceeded to put on the other
shoe; but his surprise was doubled on finding the other coin.

His feelings overcame him; he fell upon his knees, looked up to heaven
and uttered aloud a fervent thanksgiving in which he spoke of his wife,
sick and helpless, and his children without bread, whom this timely
bounty, from some unknown hand, would save from perishing. The student
stood there deeply affected, and his eyes filled with tears. "Now," said
the professor, are you not much better pleased than if you had played
your intended trick?" The youth replied, "You have taught me a lesson
which I will never forget. I feel now the truth of these words, which I
never understood before: "It's more blessed to give than to receive."

Source : Anonymous

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