Brings Me to the
Truth!
It is not an easy thing to risk our life for the truth,
but that is no longer becomes my view and it is because of someone, who risked
his life for the truth.
When I sat on the school bench, my heart was always
jammed when one of the teachers expressed a science which was completely
different with the reality. This obviously made me want to help the teacher to
justify his statement, but I had always failed to raise my finger because I was
in fear if my teacher get angry, then my score will be lowered soon. Who is not
afraid when parents grieve and get angry because of her son get falling in
school academic?.
This situation had been continued. Since then I lamented
this fallacy, imagining if this continues, then the younger generation will
continue to be in the wrong knowledges. I kept wondering to myself, which was
true? what should I do? However, I do not know what to do.
Living with the oversight knowledges made me want to be a
scientist who reveals the truths and create something new, which are true. I
kept looking for discoveries until the end I stopped when I was reading a book
that told me about a scientist, who in his life imprisoned for a life long.
"Hey! How could a scientist being in jail? It became the biggest question
in my life at that point. An impossible thing that was in contra with my
concept. "Galileo Galilei", that's the name of the scientist who was
jailed for a life long because of struggling his statement that the sun is the
center of our solar system, and it was contrary with other scientists and even
religious statement. I do not know how he could sacrifice his life for the
occasion. That was the moment when my lips were lifted, that I found a thing
that really knocked my principle, that made me ashamed of how weak I am. It was
like a slap, and as carrying a message "Do what you must do, even if it
needs thousands of pains and sacrifices, for the sake of truth which will be
useful for humanity in the future ". And in fact Galileo Galilei’s
statement was true that the sun is the center of our solar system, not the
earth.
At last there came a day when what is stated by the
teacher was different with the thing that was stated in the books and sources. What
I felt that time was that fear, but I'm curious about what if I break through
that fear out of the safe zone. "Hap" I stood up and started giving
my voices to the teacher. Politely and with humility, I started to explain
accompanied with my hands on what was supposed to be true. And finally, of
course the teacher was put on a sour face. Such resentment detained. It seems
the teacher was angry and ignoring the things I have said. That is the moment
when I smiled in my heart. I felt being a man who inspired me, being a
scientist who discovered and fight for the truth. The pain I got and the
distorted value of my score were no longer barriers in my journey of fighting
for the truth. What I know was “It’s okay, you did what you supposed to do”.
"Science
is a mystery, a mystery that is revealed when it will reveal the truth, the
truth that will show people the right path."
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