Seeing people outside let me think about psychology. Every people has their own characteristics and attitudes. Sometimes are similiar, but no one is the same. Being grown up in a small town like Cilacap, I found that people in my town may be 2 or 3 years slower than people living in, let say, Yogyakarta. Here in Cilacap, may be about half of its teenagers never seen Cinema 21 (or XXI). While Kindergarten boy in Jakarta might be in a ticket queue to see Laskar Pelangi, it took a long time before kids in here were able to see it by local tv station.
I imagined two different children living in two very different circumtances. One is in very modern city where it's very easy to get anything. A lot of mall, many supermarkets, high quality school, and other modern stuffs. I could see green garden beside a football field. High class people were playing football on artificial field, while their wives and children ran around the garden. I'll let you imagine it. If I asked you what that children will be in future, may be you'll answered they'll be very good people. Very rich and wealthy. They could marry best women and men.
In other way, imagine children who were living in conflict area. It's not easy for them, even just to eat. Sometimes they were not able to school. School? What for? They could die in minutes. They'd have no hope. What I want to say is: they'd have no future, no family, no nation, no pride. Pride! Seems we talked about it everyday. We brought it to everywhere we go. Pride! The number one . All of all. Somebody said: what's the meaning of a name? But here, pride is every meaning. No matter your name is Paino or Paijo, pride is what you're looking for.
Our minds is destroyed by pride, and sadly we're doing that to our children.
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