Sabtu, 21 November 2009

I love Indonesia

I love Indonesia, to death will remain in love ... though he destroyed ... although he was shattered. While I was in the land of ... I would still love Indonesia.

Mother earth now was really sad, especially now that the rainy season ... tears of our motherland more tears. Do we not feel sorry for him? Mother earth mourn his children were no longer going to appreciate it, nor will appreciate the children who previously had been fighting for their rights to independence, so that their children are young can still enjoy their rights freely.

I'm very sorry for pertiwiku beloved mother. Now the invaders began again undermine our country, stealing all the wealth of our country .... Motherland scream louder desperately vent his grief to occur. I was so sorry. But what can I do? What can I do is I try so hard to do.

Garbage in place, caring for the flowers and trees in the garden, had a role as a principal in the county of traditional arts to maintain the rich culture of our country, on foot to save oil in the bowels of the earth mother earth, turn off electricity when not needed, learn to hard so that someday I can make the motherland a smile.

But if only I and a handful of people who do it is it enough?

If I just throw my trash just does not selfish, so do not want to throw other trash in the waste of others? But I do not have that much power to dispose of all garbage in the waste of billions of sons and daughters of the motherland in this country, are also those people who also care ....

If I just take care of the flowers and trees in my own garden is it enough? While out there are also some people who apply more than me, but on the other hand there are people so how could cut down trees at will? What they do not need to breathe. Tree source of oxygen for us, if there is no tree to breath to wear? Is not if we do not breathe a few minutes just to die? Want to wear what a breath of oxygen supply when natural or man-made had expired?

If I go to preserve our culture, while another brother preserve the culture of other countries, wealth will be exhausted our culture right? Will become extinct like the one-horned rhinos at the western tip of Java island.

So what to do, I do not have the strength for it to invite people to do the same. I also do not have that much courage to call my brothers all, I also do not have the right to change this. I asked the Lord always ... but the LORD will change ONLY ONE OF THE STATE IF THEY WANT change his own state.

Must be one of, can not I alone! So, O brother has left earth, PERTIWI WE MAKE MOM SMILE AGAIN ....

Kamis, 05 November 2009

Fear of the dark

Like many children, when I was young I hated the darkness. I hated everything about it. I loved being outside during the bright sunshine of the day to play and discover new things with friends, but you couldn't get me to take a walk in the darkness of night to save my life. I loved playing with my toys and siblings in the basement, but you couldn't get me to be the first one to enter the darkness and turn on the lights. I simply hated the darkness. It scared me more than anything else

I think the biggest thing that bothered me about the darkness was the fact that it represented the unfamiliar and the unknown to me. In the sunlight of day I could see all around me. I could walk and run and explore while seeing all there was to see. Darkness has a way of hiding the potential dangers and scary things in life, and I for one didn't like it.

Does anyone else relate to my childhood plight? Do any other adults remember being afraid in darkness? After having four children of my own, I have learned that being afraid of darkness is quite common among children. They do not like the unknown of darkness and very literally, they do not like being hindered from seeing what is around them. Of course, as I have grown up, my fear of darkness has subsided drastically as I have learned that the same things I can see in the light are still there when it turns to darkness. I have realized that nothing extra is out to haunt me in darkness.

I have intentionally been trying to help my children overcome their fear of darkness. We have been taking short walks as a family as darkness begins to settle in at the end of the day. They are fine as long as we are talking and as long as they can grab a hand with someone else. There is something profoundly connected between the fear of darkness and the fear of being alone I have realized. So I am attempting to break their fear of darkness by reinforcing that they are not alone. Having my children share bedrooms with each other has also greatly helped them in the process of overcoming their fears of darkness. With two people in a room nothing is as scary and usually one will stand up and be strong in the face of fear.

I write all this to say simply that life is full of things to be afraid of. It is our choice, however, how we choose to let things like darkness or lonliness affect us. We can be overcome or we can learn to overcome our fears. I'd suggest that life is far too short to spend it in fear of darkness or any other thing.

Fear of the dark