The Importance of Soul-Searching
Posted on August 31, 2007
Filed Under Culture, Personality
Soul searching, self-reflection or self-criticism if you like are a tendency of an individual, society or nation that has been undergoing sort of anxiety kind of feeling. It used to happen when one feels there’s something wrong with him/her in case of individual, or in case of nation/country, with the nation/state. Soul searching in a big way done by an individual will make him/her a good philosopher, poet, . Hence the emergence of Sigmund Freud, Plato, Aristoteles, Kahlil Gibran, etc.
In Indonesia, we can see such example in Buya Hamka, an eminent ulama (Muslim cleric), great thinker, novelist, poet, prolific author, literary expert, an awardee of two honorary professor in two different field: Islamic studies from Al Azhar University and Malay literature from a Malaysian university, all of which achieved by him without undergoing any formal studies in any universities.
Do we, as Indonesian, need to do soul-searching or self-criticism? Yes, we do. There’re many wrong things in our country. From the collective corruption up to the very bottom of government officials; the collective consumptive tendency of individuals; the want-to-get-much-and-do-less of typically lazy generation; the extravagance life-style of many rich people, enterpreneurs or corrupt officials, the careless of the rich towards the well-being of the poor.
What goes wrong? The answer is many. But the more important thing is the way you react everytime you see it. If you still think that everything is fine and there’s no need to do soul-searching and self-criticism and try hard to find the solution and implement it, it only means that the nation is really sick.
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