" I am Lucky..."
That’s possibly the most appropriate phrase uttered to show many lucky things happened in my life. It was started when my father- H. Ma’ruf (the late)- gave me a name “Faizin” means “Lucky”. He added Muhammad in the front of it to show that I am a Muslim. I am the 8th Children in my family with 6 brothers and 2 sisters. All of my brothers and sisters graduated from Pondok Pesantren and I am lucky because I am the only son continued to University.
I had my Elementery school in Madrasah Ibtidaiyyah in My village. Finishing my study, my parents sent me to MTs Al-Ma’ruf Margodadi located about 10 Meters behind my house. 3 years studied in MTs Al-Ma’ruf Margodadi was the time when I had a colorful era because I started to explore my talent. I didn’t know why, I had a big curiosity in a new thing like art, vocal, sport, organization, English etc. Actually, after graduating from MTs I wanted to continue my study to Jawa but Madrasah Aliyah Al-Ma’ruf established then. So my father “forced” me to enter MA Al-Ma’ruf Margodadi as the 1st generation with only 6 students at that time.
That was possibly my hardest education era I’d to face since I had to study by having a limited facilities and teachers. Sometimes I had to study in a garage, mosque without table and chair. We had no fix lesson schedule in my class. If we had a class, my teacher searched us over there and over here. We rarely got full day learning. We had one or two subjects everyday. But now, MA Al-Ma’ruf has changed in to one of the famous Schools in my region.
I said to my self “Don’t give up…. I can If I think I can”. So, after graduating from Madrasah Aliyah, I wanted to show that I could continue my study to an outstanding university in Lampung. My father supported me to continue my study to one of university in Lampung. I chose “Lampung University”.At that time, Lampung University was the main target of senior highs student graduate to continue their study. With more than 12.000 applicants I had to compete with I chose English Department as my 1st major and Bahasa Indonesia as the 2nd one. Even though I was the first generation of my School with only 6 classmates, I am lucky, I was accepted as Lampung university students in English Department on 1997. I had to compete with many brilliant students from favorite Senior High School in Lampung. With a limited talent in English, I tried to pass my study. I had many new kind friends in my class. I had many professional lecturers as well as many facilities provided by my university. It was quite far different to my study in MA Al-Ma’ruf.
The first year in Lampung University was the hardest era in my college because I had to be familiar with English. My lecturer didn’t notice me because there were many students had well mastery in English. But, in the second year they started noticing me because I tried to give my opinion whenever the lecturer asked us about something. When I studied, I lived in a special boarding house provided by Lampung University namely “Asrama Raja Basa” it had very complete facilities. I am lucky staying in it because it’s free and I could help my parent minimizing the budget for my study as well. Time went by, I could finish my study in Lampung university for about 5 years. Then I am lucky because my family allowed me to continue my study to Jawa in Pondok Pesantren Tegalrejo Magelang for three months and Hidayatul Mubtadiin Purworejo for two years. In Jawa, I didn’t really focus in learning because I had a part job as a graphic designer. My institution had a special part to support financial problem to develop our institution by having a Calendar Publisher. It had big customer from around Jawa Island with more than 150.000 exemplar/ year. I am lucky there, because I found my new talent in computer especially in graphic design. After two years adventure, I went back to my motherland since I had said that I would stay there not for long period. As I went back to my village, Religion Department opened new civil servant test. There were 2 English teachers needed during the test. Actually I would not apply my application because I rarely practiced my English for long time. It was my oldest brother supported me to apply for that. He said that I must join it because I had a good opportunity to be accepted. After that, I applied my application, following many procedures from completing the requirements up to joining written test. It was not easy accepted as a civil servant. One of my friends had tried applying an application to be a civil servant more than 12 times and he failed..!!! I had to compete with many seniors of mine from Lampung University. I am lucky because it was the first time for me to apply to be a civil servant and I passed it….. Praise to Allah..!!!. Not only accepted as a civil servant that made me delighted but the placement of my office also made me happy. I am lucky because the government put me in MAN Pringsewu. It was located not far from my village…
To sum up, It is only a simple example for us that LUCKY plays an important rule in our life….everybody has one side of his/her life that he/she doesn’t know. Thanks to every part of my life that supports me till I can survive up to now. Every thing is back to Alloh……