By: Fathul Hamdani & Ana Fauzia
Humans must know their nature, their true nature as humans. Based on the Qur'an, the terms "insan" (Ar-Rahman [55]: 3-4) and "Al-ins" (Al-An'am [6]: 128, 130) are mentioned, which indicate the aspect of intelligence, which tells that humans are the best creatures who are given sense. So that humans understand what is good for them and what will give meaning. From there, humans will learn and understand how to live and what to strive for in order to achieve. Without it all, we don't know what is good for humans in life, chasing for the sake of achieving something, but never get meaning in it. A kind of life likes this likes what Socrates says as an untested life, as one of his famous sentences which says that "Life that is not tested is not worthy of being called life".
From the expressions in the paragraph above, of course we ask about what is the purpose of our lives, and what we should do in life to make it more meaningful. Especially as the younger generation, where adolescence is the productive age. In addition, adolescence is also the ideal age to prepare for a better future. As a young generation with the intelligence we have, we must have the awareness that our time should not be wasted. In one study, humans take an average of about 7-8 hours a day to rest. A calculator "My Life Asleep" designed by Hillarys Blinds, calculates how much time is used or spent sleeping based on age. At the age of 31 years, the average person has spent 12 years sleeping or the equivalent of 627 weeks or 105,362 hours in their life.
In addition, a study once stated that humans spend about 26 years of their life sleeping. A study by Canadian Health Experts calculated that humans spend 7 years of their life lying in bed waiting for themselves to sleep. So if it is calculated with the average age of humans today is 60-70 years, then how many years do we have left to make this life meaningful, and one big point that must be underlined is, our age is not necessarily able to reach the average age. on average, we could die at the age of 40-50 years, at the age of 25-30 years, then how old we are now, or maybe we die tomorrow.
Therefore, with the productive age that we have as the younger generation, we must be able to take advantage of the available time. Especially in the midst of the current world conditions that are being hit by the Covid-19 pandemic, all human activities are increasingly restricted, including those related to education. All schools are required to adapt to existing conditions, the learning system which was originally offline must eventually be switched to online, namely learning through online media. So, with the current conditions, today's adolescents must be able to get out of adversity. If on the sidelines of online learning but we still lie down, play games, and other things that are not useful, then we should make new habits that are more productive.
Productive things that can be done between lessons, for example, are to get used to reading, learning to write as an effort to increase the creativity that is within us. In addition, we can also be more productive by participating in various competitions that are held online, be it writing competitions, poster making competitions, debate competitions, and so on. Talking about how to form habits in reading and learning to write, this is very important. Although maybe not all students or young people have a hobby in reading, in facing the demands of the times, a culture of literacy is a necessity. Why not, by reading we will be able to adapt to current developments, so that we will not be left behind with developments in technology information. By reading we will know how the development of the world of work, and other things that are needed in reaching the future, so that we will know what is still lacking in us and what we need to achieve our dreams.
