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Rough Guide to Bali

Penjor "Hey I am coming to Bali, can you recommend me things to do?" I got that question a lot. I get it, I live in Bali so people would think that I master everything about Bali. Well... 50:50. I happened to travel around Bali since 2017. So it wasn't wrong to assume me knowing Bali. But I am also a lazy traveler so I don't always do many things in one place.  That is why we will call this a rough guide to Bali.  First thing first, define your style of traveling. Because we all know that Bali is an island. Not a city. So it is quite big, you know. You can not explore all of it in two weeks. Well you might be able to do so, but probably not immersing enough of it.  So... what is your style of traveling? Bali offers you some cultures, quiet normal life, party hotspots, quiet beaches, busy beaches, temples, and so on.  Mt Batur West part of Bali (Canggu, Seminyak, Kuta) If you enjoy partying, you might want to spend your time more in the west part of Bali like Canggu, ...

If Money Wasn't The Problem, What Would You Do?

In this extraordinary life, I would be a teacher still. 

Helping people to understand even some little things to make them feel worthy and understand themselves better. It seems that teaching has become a calling for me. Not about teaching such specific subject like mathematics or so, but more like... I like to give new perspectives for people, and having them saying "Oh.... I see..." is satisfying for me. Of course, by teaching I can learn so many new perspectives from different people too. It's like the more I teach the more I learn, and that is so true.

Maybe more like a guide. I like giving guidance to people who needs it. No, I don't like giving unsolicited guiding. I like to guide people who wants to be guided.

I'd teach them how to love, love themselves first. Yea sure when we are talking about things, they would say "do useful things like engineering, plumbing, this and that" but they tend to forget that we need some balance in life. Not saying that this one is much more important, but having technical and soft things you can't see is not bad. 

I've read somewhere that I am obsessed with love. Now that I think about it, maybe that's true. Something like compassion is fulfilling my soul. I learned about compassion from many people in my life, I see it as a compass for life. And if your love and compassion fuelling your soul, I am sure the world will be in a better place.

People will think about saving each other, people will love each other and with love you won't do any unnecessary harm especially toward earth.

Look at people around you, society around you, earth that you are living on, which one you see more? The love and growth or the hate and destructive pattern?

There's a dialog I love in my fav movie, Interstellar, said by Dr.Brand; 

"Love isn't something we invented. It is observable powerful, maybe it means something more. Something we can't yet understand. Maybe it's some evidence, some artifact of a higher dimension that we can't consciously perceive. I am drawn across the universe to someone I haven't seen in a decade who I know is probably dead. Love is the one thing we're capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space. Maybe we should trust that even if we cant understand it yet."

So if money was not the problem, what would you do in life?

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