“Go Right”

I once wrote in one of my essays that I hated everything that have started. Why do I hate them, you may ask? My reasons are quite simple; because everything that have started must end at one point of life – sooner or later – whether we like it or not. And that’s what I really hate when we come to talking about graduation: it’s the top of the ladder of all the high school life and therefore we must end here. Oh my goodness; where have the 3 years gone? Time flew, doesn’t it? But yes, as much as I hate to see it going, I realize that I have something more exciting to think about: my future. What the future do hold nobody knows; but facing it with no plans are even worse. With that being said, here are the things I’m going to do after graduation.

First of all, I want to spend my holidays before college with my best friends. Apparantly as soon as we enter college we’re going to be busy with our lives and so we will have a hard time to find time to catch up with each other. One of the things I believe might help to fulfill the euphoria is to go out as often as we could before college starts. Nowadays, our plan is to go around Jakarta and search for coffeshops, restaurants, and other cafes which sells unique food and beverages. Besides being our own food critique, going to those coffeshops hopefully increase our quality time before really having to go our separate ways.

Second, I want to serve in a church ministry as a singer. I actually did minister as a singer when I first entered senior high, but eversince I was always so busy with school projects and other things even on weekends, I wasn’t able to manage my time to commit for church practices very well. I wanted to give the best time for God without other thoughts bothering while practicing anyways. With those reasons being stated, I quit ministering after a few weeks of trying. Besides ministering at church, I am also thinking about doing some other ministries for Indonesian kids who weren’t as lucky as I am in terms of both health and money. I would like to work part time as a volunteer for a non-profit organization and spend some of my time during weekdays with kids who are diagnosed with cancer. Community for Children with Cancer or C3 Foundation is the organization I found my beliefs altered with and therefore I will be working with them to serve these kids. I want to share my stories of how God changed my life and pray for them, encourage to keep on moving, and not to be ashamed of their sickness. I want them to believe that miracles still can happen these days and they can experience those miracle themselves. Besides, what can I do more than seeing other’s smile because of my there-being?

But the most important thing I want to do after graduation is that I want to continue my studies in college. Early on high school I realized that my parents wanted to secure a place for me in the future by  getting me to go college and get education as high as I can. They want me to get a job which pays well while living from doing something I really love to do. Through this understanding, I willingly go to college with the choice of communication sciences as my major. With my love for writing, my confidence in public speaking, and hardworking character I posses, I believe I can easily take my place in the world as long as I persist in practice. Through a lot of deliberation between my brain and my heart, I finally take the courage to take communication. Even though I didn’t realize this when I was younger, but living in the world of journalism is the most liveable idea I would love living in. I believe that anything is easier done when we are passionated in what we do and that is what I exactly feel about writing and public speaking. With taking communication, I can always reassure my parents about what I really want to do because this is what makes me want to push to my limit, absorb more of everything, and aim higher when I fall. Above all, I believe that this is not about what I want to get, but what I want to give to the world as said by Pandji Pragiwaksono.

High school will indeed be a hard memory to move on from because honestly, if I can choose one moment out of anything that have started in my life to not end, this is the one thing I’d choose to be my answer. But if life only leaves me with 2 options to either go right or to go nowhere anyway, I would rather go right; even if it means leaving the best memories as it is in yesterday.