Not a very long time ago i had quite a weird experience while working. Well... I am working in service and hospitality which somehow i don't really like it but in many ways i enjoy it. I never open up about it, never want to talk about it either.. i just struggling along the way by my own. It is not that i am not thankful about it, cuz still, i earned money from it.
Well yeah not so proud and honestly i feel stuck too. So few days ago i was welcoming visitors from one of BUMN company and turned out it's one of their Directors who came to visit. Then i saw a face that i recognized that "the director" who came was my friend's father.
As you may guess that every important person usually get an easy access on every entry with ' Sok sibuk face on' and walk straight. Well not all of 'em like that but mostly they don't greet at first if it's not us who greet them first. I learned that being nice, polite and attitude is essential.
After i saw him walk by then i remember every Ig post of her daughter just passing by one by one, like you read your favorite comics or novel that you have read many times, in fact i did not stalking on her ig lolz. It just how my brain works every sad or scary event that makes me worried it just came up and flow like a Loire river. Every saddest moment of my life that happened long long time ago just showed up. I started seeing her only happy life while i know everyone in this whole wide world is facing their own problem. My thought at time be like wow no wonder her life's is so much easy. Schooling at the best High school like me, Then hearing a rumor about her saying, " gue gak usah kuliah jauh jauh di UPH aja" while i was fucking exhausted mentally and physically looking, testing, praying just to enter an Uni. Then hearing she going to one of the best uni in the world for master degree and really enjoying her time in NYC with her friends like going for vacation, while i was running out of my breath just to chasing my dream to Angers, France living broke ass because i know my family can't afford much more than my living expenses for daily. Getting help to French gov for my dorm allowance to be reduced while she was staying in a nice apartment. Looking for an intern with nice salaries so i could bring my money back to Indonesia. Not going anywhere even did not have a chance to see Eiffel and visit the city of love. While she was back and forth NYC to LA to LV. Landing a nice job as a writer while i have to face the pandemic so i have to stuck in my current job which i don't like. She's now married and have a little happy family while i am still figuring out my own life, depressed, even hating myself like you're sailing with cheap almost broke boat in Loire river watching over the magnificent castle envying the princess life. I guess there are some people who were born with the easy life, their life stages seem so smooth and visually exquisite. That's what i thought when i saw that director face.
Now on every time i'm feeling down. I do looking into deep in me. I saw the picture of myself. when i was kid, teen, savoring moment in the happiest time and little things. It just softens my heart, like can you betray yourself when you're younger just to live unhappy life? no i don't wanna betrayed my younger self who's already suffer enough yet she still fight for her dream, yet still survive yet still smile yet still happy. I just don't wanna ruin the image of my younger me. I just want to make my younger me proud of myself , my present me and my future me. I just want to live my life on my own.
Some people indeed have privilege, but there are some people who fortunate enough to change their life. Just wishing i would be one of that, because the feels when you're working on your own and you can buy things now eventho it's cheap, it feels great somehow. You start to learn to value lil things, thankful on everything you received and more appreciate things in life that be given and you work on. So don't you ever dare looking yourself down after you have been working so fucking hard for yourself and maybe for your family. Do not you dare! Shamed on you! She was the one who you can rely on, you can believe, you can love, you can proud of.
SHE IS YOU, NEVER LOST YOURSELF