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On my journey I found something interesting. Let me tell you a secret from a short story of mine.

Shhh… Don’t tell everybody until they read this secret message by themselves.

(Whispering) One at a spring time… I was acquainted with a little girl, Flick. Ohh.. She is truly beautiful 7 years old girl with pink blush on her check. She is just an ordinary girl in small town and she lives with her mom and dad at a small wood house with little garden and some poultry and pigs. Oww ya she proudly told me that she had a small house for her three dolls, Curtin, the teddy bear with big necktie, Amy, first Barbie doll from beloved uncle at her birthday, and Rob, really cute hippo with big nose.

Ohh… Many years already passed since the last time I saw her. She had ever asked once to me with her big blue eyes full of passion, I guess she asked without expect any answer or a guess-answer. She told me she was really curious why her dad made a house as a present for last Christmas and put all her dolls at that small house. “Is it so necessary dolls have a house inside the house? Is it not warm enough?” I just had little smile on my face for her and asked myself about it also… I just smile because I had clear idea that she is too smart rather than stupid, so I decided to just keep silence and give my best smile to keep my emptiness for answering that kind of question.

From last two weeks after she asked to me, she always put attention to everybody in her neighborhood. Everyday since she was 4 years she was waiting and sitting on the bench near her father office in the district area 15 minutes before working hour was over to meet his father and walk home together. Her father is a post officer and work in post office near down town 5 days a week. Everyday, while she was waiting, she felt strange, when people just finish with their activities, people tend to go in a rush and said, (shouting) “Goodbye” or “See you tomorrow” with big smile, some of them directly go to their house, some of them spent their time on the bar in the corner of the street until late nice with loud life music, freely dancing, and laughing, feel free like home.

She asked to her dad about people who spent their time at that bar, “Dad, how come they can stay in that bar with loud music and people laughing, giggling, can they study for homework tomorrow? I can’t do my homework if it is too loud like that bar.”Flick, you are my great daughter, maybe for some people in that bar are being refreshed, and most of them like spend their time in that bar more than in their house, because people can’t get such of happiness in their house.

Suddenly she think about the happiness, yaaa… right her friends said there are many great things in their house that make them happy, but some of them said school is the best place for them to get happiness. She is trying to reach the conclusion; her chin was wrinkled, I guess she has not reached that conclusion yet.

She had a big question in her mind at the time, if people can get the happiness and feel of freedom and peace why they should have had a house for them? If the meaning a house is so diverse, she really want to find it for her friends, Curtin, Amy, and Rob, also for herself.

After two weeks still confuse with that question, she told her mom that she decided to left her house in the early Sunday morning with her lovely bicycle and big basket in front she carried a bottle of milk and some biscuits to explore the small city where they lives. Oww.. That day was quite chill. The road was empty. Her house is quite far from another house and city and still surrounded by field full of wild small flowers.

She start cycling and after 15 minutes she stopped because she saw a grey rabbit near a small dry drain, she was watching that rabbit ate leaves, she feel so happy and then she was trying to get closer to the rabbit but the rabbit ran away. She was chasing the rabbit but she can’t make it because the rabbit entered a small hole she can’t catch it, she guess it was a home for rabbit and she is happy to know a rabbit house.

She is cycling again and find a cross road, she turned to right because she can see a big yellow bus park near a huge tree. She stopped there and she got closer to the bus, in the door she saw a word ‘WELCOME’ then she knocked the bus’ door. “Bang, Bang, Bang”. Flick can see a big shadow from outside of the bus and suddenly….

To be continued…

1. Work harder is a grace
   
2. Determination is what we believe
   
3. Perfect is near and real
4. Passion & positive obsession are in us
   
   • Passion conquer the physical barrier
   • Passion conquer the mental barrier
     
5. The process teach us about winning and loosing. We are loosing and back to the arena with smile
6. Nothing is impossible
7. We see beyond things
   
8. We envision and believe
   
9. We start from small
10. We are being grateful with what we got
    

The rain dropped, all friends or I can say colleagues were gone home, MC planning just over. I was experiencing new life in the capital city where the rush never stopped, the warm wind blows with thick dust, where everything is here, you can find anything you want in the center of 20 million populations (I believe you can guess what kindda civilization it is).

Tonight, I just saw fear factor in a cable TV channel, yup I can describe, Jakarta pretty close like bugs in the jar are ready eaten by the fear factor contestant, so packed, full, smelly and “yummy”. For true I live there with all other living creatures. This is third day I spent all day long “alone” in the middle of busy environment anyway Thank GOD, He blessed me so I got a narrow health space for my living with world wide desk where I can open my desktop and find the balloon in the desktop said “YOU ARE CONNECTED” then suddenly my MSN automatically sign in for me and many time people who know me say hello or maybe a long time ago friend just found me and we were happy together to share our current live story. I just found out many of my friends already got married, lovely.

Many conversations passed and by, many virtual works that I did and fresh from the oven, finished.

These two days I’m thinking about my future. I’m dreaming big, huge, gigantism, or what ever the word is to describe that my dream bigger than my willingness to sleep again in the morning rather than wake up for jogging or doing sports. This thinking rots my brain, IT’s nothing wrong with dreaming, the doubt is about BELIEVING the dream.

“The most beautiful moment, when you ask and you get the truly answer”, like one of best friend and colleague said to me when I answered her question about how’s relationship in this world works, I answered her with some sentences, and “bang”, then her question died at the moment, It’s happened to me; got the answer for the doubtness is a gift.

Pray and personal reflection truly powerful to get what it called gift and get that strength back.

The wisdom is what some people looking for in their living time. It’s not for old people who are waiting to die, it’s for young people, and it’s about passion, about love, about life.

The true of wisdom can answer million of questions in mind and it brings peace without fear. It flows from us spread to the community, to the world.

The center of wisdom can be found through “RESPECT” which mean humble, or I can say die as individual. Tonight this hundreds of words flew away from a girl, who think she is “dying” now at dawn and should wake up with the spirit of ~DREAM BIG, AIM HIGH~; with no doubt I will back to my lovely home town, Bandung, with smile.

(Aidy is going to sleep right now… 6^th June late at night or you can say 7^th June morning)