Craving for Goodness

Sometimes I felt like I am toward goodness. But still, the way is not that “good”. So, there is still doubt and it left me hanging as if it doesn’t belong there. How do we perceive ourself, others, things, surroundings. Goodness is our default goals. And the path is not always a free-toll way. It left me craving for goodness, either for me or for you.

Craving

Craving doesn’t always means wanting so bad. Craving could also defined as longing for something, or missing something we once had but maybe lose it. When you are in hunger, you are craving for food to fill in your stomach. We all need food, and we all will ever experience that “hunger”. Same thing goes to goodness. We all need goodness in our life. When things going just too bad, we’ll be craving for even the least good for us to consume. Once it is minimum filled, maybe we are distracted by something else. Then we got hungry again, again, and again.

Goodness

We already talked about “Good” earlier. Let’s discuss about goodness in terms of object. When we help someone in need, it is a good act we do. It’s called goodness. It made us feel good. And it also a good thing to do as well, as the “good” requirements met. Even how bad we think we are, we always longing for goodness. We always ‘acually’ wanna do good, be a good person. And sometimes, it’s just a matter of time, occasions, conditions, that made us drifted apart from goodness. In one bit of our life, we want to do good. It satisfies our little wishper in our heart. It says okay to your brain and logic. It calms your mind and feeling. It does feel good.

Obstacles

Now what takes us from doing good? Actually, it is not that many reasons. The sources are only from 2; shaytan and nafs. The whispers of evil, and nafs from ourself. The former is absolute total wrong and bad. We shall not listen to it, not even a bit. Yet again, we are only human, but okay, we did our best. The latter could turn out to be good or bad. If the conditions of goodness met, then the force of nafs will gave birth to good deeds. In contrast, when human driven by his/her nafs abruptly, it turns out to be bad.

Why is it so hard to be good? Self control and awareness, are really important. The braveness in taking decisions, that may not look convenient, yet actually good, is the key to defeat the 2 bad forces. We know already that we are weak with ourselves. Yet, we should be optimistic regarding the best future we want to achieve, Jannah.