Keeping intouch with Mother nature

Do you sometimes feel like life is so suffocating? Like sometimes you can't breath and you just want to escape? No?.. well i do.

You know we often don't realise that almost 99% of our daily lives are spent indoors. We rarely go outdoors anymore except to drive out to a friends or families house. 30% of the day is probably spent in front of the computer. another 10% in front of the TV. The other 60% is spending time with people. People People. People. We forget, what about spending time with mother nature? Have we ever thought about that?





A while ago I and a group of Medical students from overseas went to a small village on a hill far off on the mountain tops of Perak. There we spent 4 days with the locals who were actually the original natives of our beautiful country Malaysia. The 'Orang Asli'. 'Orang Asli' literally means= The Native people. These native people are neither under a particular race or religion. They are segregated everywhere in Malaysia and you can often find them living in the Jungles.

Well, like i said we were fortunate enough to come and spend time with them.We learnt how to speak some of their language. Learnt how to make rooftops made out of
tree leaves and also learnt how to cook tasty rice using a bamboo tree bark. Literally!




What fun we all had...just hanging out with the nature and the natives there. Another thing we discovered was that the children like playing outdoors. The neighbours are not strangers to one another. They don't have walls separating from one house to another. The men would go out and work to provide for the family, the women , after doing a days work would go to the nearby school 'shady tree stop' to pick up their younglings after school ends. No cars. No buses. No traffic.

To me even though their way of life may not be as extravagant as ours, at least their life is full.


What i learnt is no matter how smart you think you are you still don't know how to cook rice with a bamboo tree unless you spend time with the locals. No matter how big your house is, you still can't beat the fact that they are closer to their neighbours than you are. Your life may be better than theirs, you may have everything in life that you can possibly want like, money, cars, a good education, a girlfriend, whatever...but all in all those things can't bring you true happiness and tranquility.

The experience I've gotten from them is one that i will never ever forget. One I will surely cherish forever. I learnt to be not so dependent on material things. Learnt to be closer to my family even though sometime we may have problems. Learnt to share and most importantly, learnt to be GRATEFUL.

Hearing it from me wouldn't be the same as actually being there and spending time with them yourself. You have to work for the experience. I urge that more and more people would spend time with nature..Not for luxury but to learn something form it. Secondly try to do more welfare work. You'll be surprised how much you will change after seeing the joy in their eyes when you come and visit them. Give more take less. Charity is one of our obligations. According to a book I read. The person who loves to give is a brave person, because he or she is not afraid of poverty or not having enough money.

Hopefully we all can change and become better human beings.


"This is the Book(The Qur'an) where of there is no doubt, a guidance to those who are Al-Muttaqun[pious and righteous who fear Allah much and abstain from all kinds of sins and evil deeds which he has forbidden] and love Allah much and perform all kinds of good deeds which He has ordained.

Who believe in the ghaib(unsean), perform As-Salat, and spend out of what we have provided for them [give zakat, spend on themselves, their parents, their children, their wives, and also do charity to the poor and also in Allah's cause- Jihad]......................They are on (true) guidence from their Lord, and they are the successful."

[Tafsir Al-Quran, chapter Al-Baqarah, verse 2-5]

The Awesome Team =)