Since I’ve been so absorbed in Hangugeo and Nihongo, I’m now a bit worried about my English. Once, I even forgot how to spell “dream”. That’s why I decided to write this in full English.
I’d like to share my experience that I’ve managed to be my teacher -- applying the proverb I read in Sidu notebook: "Experience is the best teacher"
1. Dry Monday
Monday, October 5, 2009 was a rough day for me. My boarding house ran out of water. Yup, it just stopped flowing. The thing I always take for granted was now nowhere to find. Turns out that I could do nothing without it. I couldn’t bathe, therefore I didn’t go to college. I couldn't cook rice and I could neither wash dishes nor wash my hands. That’s not all. Due to the absence of water to do cleaning after pee, I have to limit my amount of drinking. Or else, I’d have to frequently run to gas station just to pee.
When I told my mother about this, she became so anxious that she couldn’t leave me and Utin alone. She kept texting and calling us to ask how it’s going. In fact, this water-problem became her nightmare.
Well, thank goodness I have my friends. Every time I asked, they always welcome me to shower in their staying places. I took my evening bath in Dena’s boarding house, and I showered in Ike’s dorm the next morning. Fortunately, when I got home from college, the water-problem was already solved.
Moral: You never miss the water until it’s gone.
2. Something about Admiration
I have 3 close friends who happen to be “queen bees”. You know, the one who can attract any man by the first time he glance at her. I got to know them at various periods of my life. I got acquainted with one of them as I enter the university, and the rest are my junior high school friends. I came up with a surprising discovery that they all share something in common. Despite their awareness of their own beauty, they still think they’re not good enough. Thus, they have one woman figure in our surroundings that they adore so much and she becomes their ideal. They tell me all the time, “Look at her! She’s gorgeous bla bla bla.”
And?
I’ll tell you what happened to my college friend. One day, her ideal figure passing by and decided to join us. Out of the blue, that ideal figure said to my friend, “You’re so beautiful, you know that? I often observe you from afar.”
I don’t know whether my friend was too shocked, but she didn’t praise her back. Instead, she started discussing it with me afterwards. I just comment, “You guys seem this close to dating each other with this secretly-observing thing.”
Moral: Value what you have. The one you envy probably envy you back. As Malcolm Forbes said it, “Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. “ Or if you put it in Javanese, “wang sinawang”.
