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Fire in the Building

Who would have thought that I  experienced fire in the building.  This is my first time living in an appartement. Of course I never chose appartement when living in Indonesia because it’s a real high risk when the earthquake happen. But here we are placed in an appartement. What got me relieved the first time that we are in the lowest floor so if something happen we will be quickly evacuated.  That’s what I thought.  Until it really happened.  We slept around midnight and abruptly woken up by the noise outside. I thought it was the drunk people just got back from night club or the restaurant next door was doing some deep cleaning. So loud that I had to wake up. My husband peeked outside and immediately said “fire brigade outside, you wait here!” I was just “am I dreaming or what?” I put on clothes, checked outside and saw a few of fire trucks. I checked the other side of the appartement and saw a few of police cars and ambulances.  “Oh no, something serious...

Mengemis = mental miskin

Story of pengemis...

Kita sudah banyak mengetahui modus yg digunakan pengemis2 selama ini. Kadang ada rasa kasian ketika melihat orang tua renta meminta2, "terlihat" memprihatinkan, tak berdaya, ingin rasanya memberi.. tapi tiba2 terbesit dalam hati "iya kalo beneran minta2? Kalo bukan?? Kalo ternyata dia lebih kaya dari kita gimana?". Nahh... ada memang pkiran semacam itu. Tapi ada juga pikiran yg "yaudahlah kasih aja, rejeki orang mana ada yg tau jalannya dari mana. Kali aja dg kita kasih ke mereka, rejeki kita jadi lancar, who knows yaa". Namun ada kalanya juga yg menurutku nyebelin banget nih ya "aduh pngn ngasih tp kok hatinya setengah2 gini. Nggak deh", laa tiba2 si pengemis itu menghina mencaci kita "ya allah mbak, kok medit, wes ngene kok gak gelem ngekeki tho mbak mbak". Nahahh kalo ada yg kayak gitu, percaya deh gueh kalo dia cuman modus. Ntah modus apa yg jelas itu smakin buat respect-ku ilang. Tadinya kasian, ya ilang deh akhirnya.

Nah.. ada juga kan cerita yg pengemis hartanya jutaan dikampung, ada juga pengemis yg keluar ATM untuk menarik tunai yg tidak sedikit bahkan masih menyisakan banyak nominal yg lebih dari jumlah nominal di tabunganku. Sedih rasanya *sini nabung sampe puasa ehh hasilnya gak seberapa, situ yg cuma modal tangan aja tabungan uwaw banget*.

Tapi... disitu bedanya kita. Kalau anda hanya mendapatkan uang dari meminta2, sama artinya dg anda menjual harga diri anda. Disini kasusnya harga diri saya tinggi sekali, saya sgt menghargai diri saya sendiri. Saya juga sgt tak suka jika harus merendahkan harga diri sendiri dan menjualnya seperti itu. Memberikan nilai terhadap diri sendiri itu penting. Disini letak perbedaan kita dg bangsa maju lainnya. Mereka, bangsa maju, amat sangat menilai dan menghargai diri sendiri. Makanya mereka merasa tinggi, karena memang mereka merasa diri mereka pantas untuk dihargai tinggi. Kapan kita bisa maju kalo mental kita masih mental minta2 gini? Masih mental miskin?

Come on!!! Value yourself! Bekerja keraslah dan Hargai diri sendiri! Jika setiap orang seperti itu, dijamin deh kita akan mampu bersaing dg negara maju lainnya.

Ayo Indonesia, ditunggu aksinya!! 10 tahun lagi kita akan sejajar dg mereka yg sekarang menguasai dunia!!

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