I’m Glad I’m Married

Ilma Hidayati
Aug 9, 2017 · 2 min read

‘You don’t know what you have until it is gone’-A common phrase that we’ve heard. Why we should wait until it’s gone?

So happy being in Paris with my husband :D

Marriage is suggested in Islam. It completes half of the deen. Why it values so much? Well, one of the reason I find after I have married is that I can be more thankful to Allah for everything He has given to me.

When I was single, I often think that I was not pretty. I was just an ordinary girl with ordinary attitude and intelligence that I didn’t stand out among my friends. I was a quiet person so that I only have few friends. I didn’t really enjoy my college that I blamed myself why I was trapped in such situation.

One day, everything has changed. An extraordinary man came to me and proposed me. At that time, I thought. Wait… what kind of kindness I had done so I got this kind of chance? I was the one who always condemned my condition.

Alhamdulillah… Allah gave a great present for me at the end of my struggle to graduate from the college although I was not patience enough. And, everything I thought about myself has entirely changed.

Now, I think that I’m pretty. Not because I can put some make up on my face, but because my husband says so. I think that I’m not an ordinary person, because I’m a wife of an extraordinary man. I should have been an extraordinary woman so that I am matched to this man as his spouse. I am being so grateful for everything I had passed, although not most of them were delightful memories, but my past really shape me.

Last, I didn’t know that I was pretty and extraordinary until my husband came into my life. I realize those things that I have, not because I nearly lose both of them, or even worse really losing them, but because there is someone who admit those qualities of mine. So, we don’t have to wait until it’s gone so that we know what we have, we need someone to admit it sincerely. That’s why, I’m glad I’m married :)

Taking photograph under the pouring rain heuheu

Ilma Hidayati

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