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“Sometimes
it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation”
Nelson Mandela, 2005
I
was surprised by that film. At first, I think the film was just another story
of love and sex. I think its story was just a meeting between a man and a
woman, a little conversation, and much act in the room, especially in bed. But
I actually wrong.
Started
from a busy man who has never had a woman he loves, this film actually boring
at the first time. His job as an accountant in one of the government ministry
makes him busy and automatically spends the whole day and night staring at the
cryptic number in a not-so-familiar format. In a spare time (if he have it), he
writes something or maybe everything he wants to write. And then the fun was begun:
he went to the café and met the girl there.
The
story begins to flow normally, even dramatically. I actually didn’t have any
idea about the woman he met. But that’s not the point of that film. Briefly, this
man asks the girl whether she wants to come to Iceland with him. He offers her
to accompany him because he had another ‘empty slot’ and he doesn’t know with
whom to go there. And as we all guess, yes, the girl smile and agreed.
Well,
I don’t want to tell you the whole story as it would make you sleepy. If you
ever watch this film, you must agree with me that this film is all telling
about something we appreciate to be our attitude: INTEGRITY. You may also agree
that this film teach us about BRAVINESS, CONFIDENT, TELLING THE TRUTH, and
NOTHING TO LOSE. At last, this film is all about a POSITIVE ATTITUDE we want to
have in our attitude, despite of the bad side of this film (every film has a
bad and good side; please be fair).
* *
*
Now,
let’s take a look at our side. We live each day surrounding by a thousand of
people, even more. We live not in an empty world but full of people everywhere.
We live in a busy world that has 24 hours a day and 7 days a week (after all,
we always feel that we have lack of time, for sure!). We live in a similar
community with our attitude. Rich people mostly surrounded by rich, and
honestly, poor people are surrounded by their same level of poor. Teacher needs
to meet another teacher as the president frequently communicates with another
president. This is a normal pattern.
Let’s
imagine to the community that we were linked to. Someone said that we are all
the product of our environment and community. If we joining the marketing
community, we becoming a marketer. If our community spreads hate and
destruction, we are not impossible to be the best destructor in the world.
Hence, if our community spread justice, it is possible to build the justice
attitude in our heart.
But
can you imagine living in the community which its main slogan was everything
that’s good but act like a jerk? “Hey, it’s impossible,” you think. But it’s
quite true. This film proves it elegantly. In a simple example, this film shows
us that government, the simple but powerful organization (and community), acts
like that. Not only government institution, but also political organization.
And most organization we don’t know much.
Mostly
those jerk organization acts like that when the absolute results are all about
the money. Mostly of them are all about women. And mostly of them are all about
the status and position. Not sure about the cause what makes our organization
acts like that, but we can optimize our attitude to fight back against that bad
manner. It sometimes hurt in a start line but it pays much after the finish
line. And I bet there is no finish line as we were satisfied over and over
again to tell the truth and to bravely fight against the bad ones in an elegant
way.
In
the meantime, there are sometimes bad people who treat us in a single way that
make us happy but then hit us in the back without notice. We call these people “PENJILAT”
(I don’t know what PENJILAT means in English so I write it as it actually is in
Indonesian). There are a lot of people like this out there. We face these
people every single day. In our complex, in the office, in the bus, everywhere.
Just take a look closely to them and you quickly know their habits.
* *
*
Enough,
enough, I don’t want to drag you to even further discussion as we would end up
with gossiping others. That’s not the point I’m writing this article, anyway. I
just want to tell all of you about being happiness telling the truth. Being
cleanliness talking everyone’s kindness. Being honest showing another great
attitude. As “penjilat” keep kicking and telling the lies about us and surround
us, we promise not to irritated by this kind of person. As they, the “penjilat”,
continue spreading injustice and hate, we are struggling not to worry about
that. As they plan strategy to take us down, they will never get the job done. Because
they are a looser. Because they just only a chicken who only have a brave in kicking
our ass, not our face. They even willing to wipe our face after kicking our
butt, and after that, kicking again, wiping again, kicking again, and those
acts would be never ending story.
As
Nelson Mandela state in 2005 and as I put it in the beginning of this article,
I want to challenge you not to keep the bad attitude. Not to be a chicken. Not
to be someone who telling the lies. Not to kick someone else’s butt. But
reversely, I challenge you to telling the truth, to be honest, to keep the good
attitude, to grow our own integrity, and to sinking down our “penjilat” soul. As
we talking to our heart about this, they would agree and smile to us. They, our
heart, would support us to do the best. They would happy and live with us, not
against us. And while we are happy to live with those great attitudes,
“penjilat” would have their heart sinking down, turning into death even though
their body was healthy. Let’s be a part of the GREAT GENERATION.
Jogjakarta, June 26, 2008
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