Honorable People
November 9, 2008
By accident, I found a bunch of my junior high school friends in facebook yesterday. As I browsed through their pages, what I found were quite refreshing.
Unlike Indonesians at our age group, theirs are not filled with pictures of kids, works, and obligations, but rather of themselves going out, having fun, living their lives to the fullest.
Many are still in school, a few are married, but one thing is for sure, they live their lives for themselves. Theirs are not the faces of Indonesians I see everyday…
They are not likely to shun the love of their lives because that someone does not belong in the same race/faith group as they are…
They are not likely to stay in marriages out of obligation because they are too lazy to face reality…
They are not likely to keep quiet when they are hurt, just so everything will be OK, be undisturbed, and keep running as usual…
And they are definitely not likely to marry someone just because society dictates that you have too.
Sometimes we got too caught up chasing what our life should be that we take less than we deserve. We forgot what is most important, that these are our lives and we should live this for us and us alone.
“Do you know when to walk away? Do you know when not to take less than you deserve? If you do, then you’re an honorable man”
(Jane Burke - Grey’s Anatomy)
