No Pain, No Gain

Hiya, been couple of days since my last post, well... Things happens, problems come and go, but still... life must go on, and in the end lessons will be learned. Today, I wanna share several thing about my latest experience, pain... Yes... pain, that pain, the pain, that awful, unpleasant thingies... he2...

Just like our main topic today, I believe in our life, there are certain circumstances that'll give us headache in many way. There are several situation that corner us, and made us helpless, hopeless sometimes. Sometime these situations turned really bad, and causes many unpleasant result, mostly pain.

Pain, is a natural gift that we ever have, to alarmed our conscious, our mind about many unpleasant thing, that could turned out to be a danger possibility for ourself. But... I'm not tryin to discuss anythin about physical pain here, but rather talk about emotional pain. Things that make you feel awful, bad, sorrow, sad, mad, you named it...

What I learned so far, and from several occasion from the past, "A pain doesn't always have to be a bad thing. It is, but sometime it can be a dear friend to us, a wise teacher even."

Another question pops then, "But... How?" "How can an unpleasant thing, become friend to us, even a teacher?" Relax, settle down a little bit.

It is true, when we feel sad, everything turned sour for us, at least, we felt so...
But, let's not focus on the bad side... When you're in pain, it is true that you feel awful, and it allright o cry for once in a while, but hey! Let's not focus on that side only, there must be another side of being in pain, the other side, the one that you can take benefit from, that will make you stronger, arise and shine again...

To be emotional is good sometimes, beside, it's part of bein human... to have feelings, and no one to blame you for it, but let's remember one thing, sad is fine, cryin once in a while is acceptable, but don't fall into a self-pity state, don't begin to take pity on yourself.

When you have calmed yourself, and it seems not that hurt anymore, let's recall about the unpleasant experience, think about it, see it from another shoes, don't see it from your point of view only, see it from the third person eyes, find what causes it, judge it from the neutral-state of mind.

And then, you will find that the pain is not that hurting anymore, you will learn a new thing, one thing that you haven't realize before.

Well, the bible does mention that the merry heart is a medicine for soul, meanwhile a broken spirit dries the bones. The same foundamental thing applies here, you will rather more productive when you are happy, that's why, cheer up... What come may, everythin just gonna be allrite... Sometime clouds come and hides the sun, but it doesn't means everything, the sun still there, you just can't see it with your eyes due to the bad weather, but it is, the sun is still there, just wait and see... Everything will be just fine, the sun will still showes after the rain... Take a deep breath, and just sit there nicely, wait for the sun to come again...

Even, while I write these blog post, I feel such blessing for my soul, the problem still here, but I don't see it as big as it is before, I begin to understand, just accept everything without much complain, and still try to turned my days bright... As bright as before... Have a nice day all...

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The 'BBM' a.k.a. 'Bahan Bakar Minyak'(Indonesian)-Fuel Oil Dilemma

As what you can find on Internet, or heard on the news. Here in Indonesia, lately the government has decided to raise the fuel oil fare, the raise estimated arround 30% from the latest fare. For several years long, Indonesian government has release a big amount of budget for subventing the fuel fare, well... it is true that the majority of Indonesian people living below the poverty line. That is why such subventing act is expected from the government. However, only a few of the people who realize that the actions of these benefits is funded on the basis of the national debt. If this action continues, the national debt will most likely gettin worse.

I'm not trying to defend the government, by saying this. But, let see, and see it from different angle.
On one side, the people are helpless, and they depend on the fuel to survive, for transportation, and many others. On the other hand, if our government kept spending money for the subventing policy, how can they repay the debt? It doesn't sound funny at all now... Now we see that the joke has lost it's punch.

People always claimed that buying a new vehicle helps you improve your economical situation. Well, it differs if you see it from my point of view. In fact, buying a new vehicle won't solve anything but give you more problem. It adds another huge budget demand just to buy the fuel, and the more demand of fuel drom this country, the more our government need to supply it, the more our nation's debt increase. And now the fuel price rate got to be raised. Doesn't it will make 'em struggle more? Often, they began to blame the government, and the rich also. But whom to be blamed for sure? I guess we all know the answer. And also buying a new vehicle to conquer economical situation is definitely not the right answer either?

I'm not trying to be like some weirdo, anti-technology guy. If not, why would I try to make a blog in the first place, right? he2... What I'm trying to tell you here, my dear fella... is... take look at this country, there are a lot of people, spend their money for buying a vehicle, if you got your salary, buy a motorcycle, take a credit, what a mindset. There are almost 200 million people lived under this nation, If only half of 'em got their own vehicle, how much will they spend for buying fuel, and it seems just fine, for them. Not to mention, the company vehicle, industrial machines, power plant machines, etc. All of 'em need fuel, and it doesn't seem, that the fuel will appear out of nowhere, right? The government need to supply the humongous demand of fuel, and they need to buy it also from the world oil market. Now, I hope you get the picture....

Let's try to be wise here, just do what we could to help, don't blame anybody... The main problem is that there are a lot of vehicle operates in this country, too much I could say... So, what should we then? Buy another vehicle? or, built another roadway? Of course not, silly... What we gotta do is try reduce the number of vehicle, If there are less vehicle operating in the roadway (we are talking about fuel consuming vehicle, such as motorcycle, cars, etc.) that way will also lower the consumtion number of fuel, and help the government to focus to repay the nation's debt, without having another headache to plan another extra huge budget to cover the fuel payment.

Not trying to be naive here, but there are many public transportation all arround, take benefit from it. If u got public transportaion all around, why by another vehicle, it solve nothing. Of course a lot of improvement still and always be needed from our country, but if you know something that might be an aid for the problem, then do what you can to help it, don't just argue about it, do something. If you keep arguing about many un-seen problem for you, then it will become seen/real for you. In other word, you are the one that creates the problem, nobody else, what I try to tell you is, just be wise all the time, don't blame other, don't whine about something before you did another research about the problem, see it first from different perspective. Then you will find yourself in perfect peace. Because when you see it from all aspect, from all possible perspective, you will realize the main problem, and you also will find the answer to it.

I believe in this life, everything we are in today, whatever struggle we had nowaday, is caused by our own act. We had the struggle because we 'choose' to be in it, and sometime, unconsciously we enjoy it, though we suffers, we still take comfort, like nothing happens, such ignorance...
Bible tells, that every person judged by their own action. The same principle applied here, the one that made the government keep supplying the fuel is us, the people. Indirectly, we are the cause of the fuel raise. Why blame others, because of our own missconduct? A little bit harsh I guess, but believe me, it's the fact.

Do something for it, don't waste time just by blaming others, because complaining never solve the problem. Have a nice day...

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