My Family Life

        Do you ever think that a fabulous parents are really exist? If you ask me, I will answer absolutely yes. Why? Because in my opinion we all have a fabulous parents, we just do not realize how meaningful they are. Instead, sometimes they seem invisible to us. I am so thankful that I have an incredible parents like my mom and dad. I will not ever try to exchange them with whatever offered to me in this world.

        I will tell you some of my experiences, my parents got divorced when I was still sit in kindergarten. Since then, I lived with my mother in a different house. But sometimes I still visit my father and stay there on the holiday time. Afterward, four years later my mom married again with another man so I have a step-father. I believe that nor my mother or my father want this to happen, but they just already did not match each other anymore. They tried to fix it, but nothing changes. At that time I cannot accept their decision and I was embarrassed with my family condition, but a few years later I realized that there is nothing I should be ashamed or regret.

        After I grew up I tried to understand their position, I did not want to be an egoist person. I tried to imagine if I were one of them, and I knew that their decision did not only hurt me, but it hurt the three of us. I agree that divorce is the best way out for them, it is useless to hang up in a relationship which does not work anymore. It will only hurt both of them and waste time, everything that is imposed will not give a good result. I believe that everything happens for a reason and maybe it's our family fate. Everything comeback to myself, depends on my point of view, and how I respond to face all my problems. And I choose to deal with it and just be thankful instead of complaining because I think complaining is a very useless behavior, it will not changes anything. It will only makes everything become worst.

        And now, after all the incidents I have been through with my family I still feel thankful because not all the people can have those experiences. More or less, it automatically shaped me into a more mature character. And I still really respect my mom and dad, I can see that even-though they are not together anymore but they are still willing to give and do the best for me. Provided what I need, take care of me since I was born until now, take time to choose the best education for me, bring me to the doctor when I am sick, try to cheer me up when I am feeling bad (although sometimes their way is really silly, but I really appreciate it! =P), and there are still sooo many things which I cannot mention one by one because if I do, this will be a never-ending story. I realized that maybe all the things that I mention above is just the little things.

        In my life, I often miss all the little things until I read a quote in my friend's blog. It says that "sometimes, all the little things are the most important things in life." Then I realized that my life is really short and I should put more attention not to miss all the precious moments I have. From now on, I really want to spend more time to enjoy with my parents and show that I really love them. Maybe there is an ex-wife or ex-husband, but there is no ex-child. Blood ties cannot be destroyed. So, however your family life is just be thankful and respect all the time you have at present because you will never know what will happen next. ^^

No Sacrifice No Victory

 

        Do you ever watch the Nike commercial above? If not, I suggest that you should watch it because it is a really meaningful video. In this video I can see many people who are master in their own field and at the moment now they are the best athletes in the world. There are a lot of people adore them.

        Through this video I can see that it is not easy to get what they achieve now, it needs a lot of practice and effort. Include time, energy, and perseverance. It makes me realize that in my life there is nothing that I can get easily, everything must pass many hard processes. If I have a big dream then I should put a big effort also in it. Starts with making priorities in my daily activities and managing time.  I should have self discipline. There is a quote, "no sacrifice, no victory", and I believe that. Sometimes to get something, I must sacrifice everything.

         Although sometimes it is so hard to fight myself, especially my laziness but I will keep trying and do my best to reach my goal in my life. I should think forward and keep move on. Failure in life is just an usual thing, wise people said that failure is a delayed success. Everyone would have experienced a failure in their life, including me and most of the time I want to give up. But this short commercial reminds me to have passion in everything I do. So, keep fighting for your dream, never give up, JUST DO IT!

My Housemaid Role

        

        Have you ever have a housemaid? Do you ever respect her? Or say a simple "thank you" word? If not, you better change you point of view from now. Why? I have thousands reasons for you, it began when I did my writing task to interview a person who has a part in your life. And I chose to interview my housemaid, Rum. She is a 20 years old woman who came from Nganjuk, East Java to work in a big city like Bandung because she wanted to increase her family economy.

        Before I thought that she is doing usual things she supposed to do, those are her tasks. But then I realized that it is not easy, it needs a lot of strong power to maintain a house. I cannot imagine if she is gone, a month ago she returned to her village to celebrate Idul Fitri with her family for 10 days. And I realized it was so difficult to do the simple things she usually did when I have to do it myself. It took me a lot of time and energy. And actually, she has a great way of thinking not as I thought, from this thing I learn that I cannot judge a book by its cover.

        She told me that she is willing to study, but her parents cannot affort it. So she chose to work and help her family economy, in my opinion it was an enormous choice. Not all of the people is able to make that decision, it has a high risk. For example, if later they will get a boss who treated them not as a human. I cannot imagine if I am on that position. I asked her about her experience on her first day working as a housemaid, she said that she was so nervous. But she tried to do her best because she did not want her boss send her back to the village, cause it will embarrassed her and her family. I never expected that a young woman like her already bear a heavy responsibility.

         But I do not agree with her target, she said that she never expected more than to be a maid. She does not have self-confident in herself. I believe that nothing is possible in this world, especially with God. My lecturer once told me that you should always have a high target. For example, you should focus to reach the moon, then at least even if you fail you will be on the stars. But overall, she is a wonderful woman inside. She does not lament her destiny, but she make a decision and take a high risk. Maybe sometimes they are people in my life who are invisible and seem not important at all, but actually I will not know what will happen without them. So, from now on I will learn to always respect and appreciate the others.