Water Pollution

Water is the most important natural resource for life. Human being needs water not only for drinking but also for cooking, washing, irrigation, etc. But unfortunately, the water that is one source of human life began to be polluted by human activity itself.

Humans arbitrarily throw litter, no matter what the consequences will arise after that. Not to mention industrial wastes, household wastes, and the rest of commodities are also being dumped into the river. Coupled with toxic chemicals removed from factories and excessive pesticides used in agriculture. All these harmful substances cause water to become contaminated with harmful substances. Then it's all aggravated by human greed that catches fish using explosives and harmful toxins. Consequently the water ecosystem becomes a victim. How many animals died from chemical waste poisoning we throw away? How many coral reefs are damaged by explosives that we continue to explode in the oceans? Or, how many lives are lying in hospital from lack of clean water, contaminated with disease outbreaks, and other sad things.

If all this continues, do not you realize what will wait? Human life threatened with chaos. Water that was abundant, now increasingly rare. The river that once overflowed, now dries up. Even the ocean, that is so rich in water and its resources is, now no longer empowered.

How long will we stay silent? Until all the bad things happen and get worse? Until all the fish die and disappear is taken by the greedy man? Or until the water is completely discharged and makes people no longer able to feel the joy of clear water?

Is time for us to move. Awareness of the importance of the environment and clean water. Stop being selfish and start saving on water usage. Reduce the use of detergents and carefully choose soaps with low levels of chemistry. Stop silent and yell at the government all the solutions you know. Then, after the effort that we have done, we can pray to God, to help us to save our earth. Because this is not just my world. But also your world. And this is not your world either. But also the world’s generation after you.

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Best Friend

Human being can not live without each other. Sometimes they need other people to help them and makes their life become insterest. That is why human need other people to stay alive in this world. Usually, some people have a few person that have close relationship with them. Either family or others. It is same case with teenager. Normally, a teenager has two or more friends that so close with them.  Best friend. It is the one name of that relationship.

But what is the meaning of best friend actually? Is it just person that has close relationship to you? Only that? No. I am quietly sure that it is not just about that. Actually, each people has different opinion about what the best friend is. Some of people say that best friend is person who always help you to solve your problem. Some other say that best friend is person who always by your side, no matter is happy or not.

But for me, best friend has deeper meaning than that. I think best friend is person who always make us closer to Allah. A person who be able to make our personality better. I think, a best friend should not doubt to remind their friend about something wrong. I think a best friend suppose tell and guide their friend to the right way. Because relationship of best friend is just not only in the earth, but also in the afterlife.

Normally, your environment will form your personality. If your friend is good, so you will be good too. But if your friend bad, you will be bad as well. That is why our provet said that we must found good friend who can bring us closer to Allah, guide us to heaven.

Unfortunately, teenager not paying too much attention to this. They more prefer to have close relationship with person who they think can make their happy in this life. Even though a best friend should not only makes you happy in this life, but also make you happy in the afterlife.

I’m not saying that we have to pick around in friends, but what I mean is, we should think clearly about who the person that we can call the best friend is. So teenager can be friends to all the people, but they should think again and again about who is person that should be their close friend.

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How to Improve My Writing Skill

Good afternoon all ^^

Today I want to share about “How to Improve My Writing Skill”. Actually I’m not a person who can share about this. But I love writing so much, so I think, why I'm not trying this?

You know, my lecturer often say this quote in the class: “There is no way to improve your writing skill, except writing itself.” (Mr. Afrianto Daud)

And let guess, I fall in love with this quote. Because I think it's true. 

You know, I have read a book that was written by Felix. Y. Siauw, in his book that titled “Habits” he said that the one way to improve your skill is do these two things: practice and repeatation.

To start something you need practice first. Then after you practice, you need repeat again and again until these action became your habits. You know if something become your habits, you will do that things everyday. Otomatically. Without realizing it.

So, how we practice this skill.

In my first lesson in writing class, there are some way to practice your writing.

First, you need to find your topic. In choosing a topic, you need to consider two condition. The topic is not too narrow and is not too broad (general) too.

You know to find some ideas, you can implement Brainstorming. Brainstorming is a way of gathering ideas about a topic. When you brainstorm, write every idea that comes to you. Don’t worry about the ides are good or silly, useful or not. You can decide that later. In brainstorm, you just need to gathering as many ideas as you can.

There are some types of brainstorming such as: making a list, free writing, and maping. These three types can help you find the good topic/idea to write.

In these three types I prefer to do free writing. Why? Because I just write whatever I want. Without care about grammar and spelling. Just write. You know, this way sometimes can make your idea flow profusely. Because you don’t need to check the grammar rules or something like that. All you do is write and let your idea flow down.

In the end, after you finish write all idea in your mind, you can stop and read your writing from the begining until the end. If you find some mistakes, you can check rules of grammar and edit your own. Or you can ask your friend or lecturer to check if your writing is good or not. Don’t forget to ask some advices too.

If you willing to this activity and practice a lot, I’m pretty sure that your writing skill will improve someday.

Happy writing ^_^

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