This is my story of Eureka’s moment in my life. But first, let’s talk about eureka. It is an interjection used to celebrate a discovery, a transliteration of a word attributed to Archimedes. He used it when he stepped into a bath and noticed that the water level rose. Then he suddenly understood that the volume of water displaced must be equal to the volume of the part of his body he had submerged.
My story of eureka started when I was entering the Mara Professional College of Indera Mahkota for the first time. I get to know this one lecturer when I was waiting in the Adminstration to go to the clinic. To make thing clear, out of nowhere he came to me and sit at the couch. He was asking me a lot of question about myself, for example, why I choose this college, and how I felt about the atmosphere. Then I asked him what he worked as in this college. To my bolt from the blue, he told me that he was one of the lecturers in this college. So we begin talking to each other about the college and ourselves. One thing that I remembered he told to me to look at the picture of himself at the organization chart. He looked so chubby in the picture like me. Then, he explained that the picture was him during the first time he entered the college. Now he seems to lose weight and I was thinking that this life in college was going to be rough. After a long conversation, the college’s van arrived and we had to stop the chat. That was the first time I met him.
During the time in college, I always saw him went to class like other lecturers. But the peculiar thing was that he was walking to the class, like the students. While all his friends, other lecturers, went to the class on their own transportation, motorcycles and cars. Many of the students make assumptions about him, why he was walking instead of using vehicle, was he poor, was he hated vehicle or any of the lecturer didn’t want to help him. However, from my perspectives, I deduce that he was trying to be humble or he wants to feel how the hardships of the students went to class.
In Semester Four, I get to class with him. He was teaching Critical Literacy for my class. During our first time meeting, or we liked to call it ice breaking session, we introduced ourselves to him, including me. Next, he asked all my friends to ask questions, all of us sit still, but in my mind I want to ask him about the transportation’s issue. Suddenly he said “any of you wonder why I walked to class”, all of us quiet, and then we nodded. He explained that he has some kind of illness that prevents him from driving frequently. As a result, the doctor advised him to exercise a lot. That’s why he doesn’t bring his car and walked as to replace his exercise routine. Eureka! Now I understood why he was always walking around. Since I knew the cause, I heard that many of the students knew the truth and they never make any bad suppositions anymore.
Conclusions, that is the story of my eureka’s moment. The value of this story is never make a bad assumptions to people until you know the truth from the person itself and never judge a book by looking at its cover. By the way, the lecturer mention in this story is the one and only Sir Kamaraziz himself.
