''To be scared is sensible, to be comfortable is suicidal''
I don’t know about you, but I for one like to walk (for many different reasons in case you’re wondering why I like to walk) , and no matter what city I am in, I always walk on the streets of that city. So of course that I walked on some of the streets, or in some of the areas of jakarta too. I walked in tebet, kemang, kuningan, slipi, senayan, sudirman area, ancol area etc., and as I was walking through those areas, I must say that the things I have seen and the smells I have felt are really, really bad in my opinion…not only because of the image that it portrays to the people outside of Jakarta, or outside of Indonesia for that matter, but more importantly because they are really bad for our health.
Now… this made me think…about me, my wife and the family we want to start together, made me think about my friends and their kids too, because most of my friends from Indonesia live in Jakarta, so then I started to ask myself and I also started to ask my friends, if this is the kind of place that we would want to call home? If this is the kind of place that we would want our children to grow up in? And many other questions related to the same subject…what’s important, is that the answer to all of those questions is no! (How about you? What would be your answer to those questions?)
If my friends think like that too, then I believe that there are more people out there that think the same way ...not happy with their "home". Then I thought about the options that I have: 1. move to a different city, 2. put my head down and just put up with it or 3. Do something about it.
The 1st option, move to a different city, is possible and not very hard to do, but, do I want to do that? no, because most of our friends live in Jakarta and they have no plans of moving out anytime soon, for their own personal reasons which I respect, on top of that, my wife’s family lives in a town very close to Jakarta, so…by moving to a different town or to a different country, we would have to leave all of our close ones too, and even though technology has progressed and has its ways of keeping us connected, it cannot compare with real life connection… so this is not option that I can take. What’s next…?
The 2nd option, put my head down and put up with it is possible too, because I have done it for the last few years, so I could continue doing it but, do I want to do that? No! Because i can’t be comfortable with garbage anymore, or cockroaches and rats, i can't!... can you…? Not to mention that when I think about the family I want to have, then this solution becomes unacceptable too.
So I am left with only one option the 3rd one, to do something about it. Now Prof. Dr. Pak Onggy, a very smart person, co-founder of the FFG love movement, taught me something very important, and that is… ’’ when we make a decision, the decision must come from ourselves first’’, so if I wanted to do something then I must make the decision first! And I did make it…so now, I am determined to do something about it, no matter how much time it will take me or what sacrifices I will have to make, I will do it, I owe it to myself and to the family I plan to have.
Don't you feel the same? ….If you do, then join this blog and join me. TOGETHER WE CAN!
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