Thanks Guys !!

My latest contemplation just came a couple of weeks ago, smurfing and mocking me as I am the most ungrateful person in this world. I had had no consciousness at all about the literal means of owing someone, until last week I was “slapped” by a simple and unnecessary conflict with my considered-brother.

The story began when I was in the first grade college, moving from a small and nothing-to-see town to the spotlighted metropolitan city, Jakarta. I was a 16-year-old teenager shocked by the sudden changes and the robotic-pase routines. There were no adequated supports for such a young and trickable boy like me, no parents, no relatives, in the middle of my meager life experiences.

At a predetermined moment I met several buddies living in the same lodge with me. We lived together without any hesitancy to deal with any problem. We looked like siblings, we shared almost everything but underwears and toothbrushes. There was no singular mode in our relationship, either in sorrow or joy. We equally burdened all hindrances and enjoyed all ease God gives us.

Even in financial matters, the richer helped the poorer sincerely, and in this case I was included in the secondly-mentioned ones. I have difficulties to describe how helpful they were for me whose parents are only the civil servants with frankly tiny income. They introduced me to some amusements I had never experienced before, they brought me to taste all the amenities which I had never imagined before. I ate my first sushi because of them, I knew the place called karaoke for the first time when they asked me and guaranteed me that they would not let me pay anything, I sliced my first steak due to the celebration of my best buddy’s birthday, and there are still long-long lists of “my first”.

What a blessed live it was, and I promised to my self since those “first shots”, I want to do something in return, to them who opened the windows for me glancing the wide world.

Now,in my third year as an employee by which I could earn some incomes, I have not done something meaningful for them. At times, they ask me to do some favors, and believe me, I have no reason at all to refuse them. But anything could happen right? There are always several conditions make me unable to aid them, it could be the (not) right man in the (not) right time, or perhaps my powerful selfishness defeating my gratitude manner (hmm…my bad).

But hey guys!!
I want to do to the fullest to say thanks, just say thanks for all of you!!

Ratu Lanang Sejagat