Skip to main content

JacksGAP: The Collaboration Project - Fear





I have to say, this video is incredible. For you guys who haven't watched this video and aren't subscribed to JacksGAP then you really should. I've actually watched this video in like a few weeks ago but I just had the feeling to share it now. And not only share the video, I also want to share my fear with you.



I'm afraid of not being able to make my parents happy and proud of me in the future. My parents always wanted me to be someone successful. I don't know about countries in other parts of the world. But here in Indonesia, you need excellent grades to be able to get better job opportunities and possibly the job you favour. Whereas, I don't really like school. At least not my kind of school right now.



You see, even though I was born in Indonesia, I basically lived my life in Australia until the age of 7. When I got back to Indonesia my parents put me in a private (non-governmental) kindergarten. It was nice there. There are lots of similarities compared to my school in Australia. I remained in the same school until I finished primary school. On junior high school, my parents decided to move me to a public (governmental) school. I don't know why, maybe it's because they wanted me to meet new friends and socialise more (I'm an introvert). So I said why not. When school commenced, it turned out to be incredibly tough. And at that moment I realised that this how school actually is in Indonesia. You needed to use uniforms everyday, black shoes everyday (when I say black, I do mean black), you're not allowed to have a medium-long length hair, so many homeworks, teachers are strict, and so on, and so on.



Well now I'm on my second ear of junior high school and I'm getting a lot used to things here. But it still doesn't change the fact that I really don't like school. And at the same time I don't want to fail my parents. One of the solutions that I come up with is that I needed to prove them that school isn't the only way of success. I need to find something that I really like and make it into a job opportunity. Hopefully I can do that someday. But until then, I guess it's fair if I ask you the same question. What do you fear?

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Speech Script: Being an Introvert

Hey, Guys. I thought I'll share another speech script today. I used this script when I was competing in a competition held by a Senior High in Bantul, Yogyakarta Special Area. I got 1st in that competition so I think this one is pretty good. And I also wanna say that in this speech script I slipped in a little personal story of mine. So it's gonna be a little hard if you're going to copy it haha... So here you go. I’ve always felt that I’m different compared to most people. At least compared to most students in my school. On break time, they like to gather in groups and gossip about someone or chat about the current trends. I prefer not to. If I necessarily have to get involved in a group chat outside my class, I always try not to do the unnecessary. Not to talk too much. Some people say that I’m shy and weird. Some even say I’m arrogant and antisocial. The truth is, I’m an “introvert”. So ladies and gentlemen, the honourable judges, and my fellow competitors, this morn
1 comment
Read more

Creating Contents and Getting it Out

Whether it's writing, typing, or making videos, getting stories out there into the public is a form of content creating. The stories in the form of words that you write or type and the videos that you film and produce will be seen by people and therefore your content would serve it's purpose. It could be an entertaining story, or something that has educational value, or anything. Content creating is very fun and it could "force" you to keep pushing your boundaries until you find new ones. Personally, I am a big fan of content creating. Youtube videos, blog writings, news, all that sort of stuff. I think it's one of the easiest ways of sharing positivity to other people around the world (although there are definitely pricks out there who uses this opportunity to spread negativity and fear). As long as you're contents are intended to affect people positively, content creating and content sharing would have so many benefits not only to the creator, but also to
Post a Comment
Read more

My Not So Professional Take on Indonesia's Education System

    So recently I just had this little realisation. I was about to call it an epiphany but I thought using that word would be a dramatisation, so for the moment let's just call it a minor realisation. So I live in Indonesia which if you don't know already, is a developing country. We have so many things to be proud about like our astonishingly diverse culture and our unique culinary taste. But education isn't one of those things. Education is far from those things. Like our education sucks. I don't exactly know the reason to that. I mean I haven't done a research or anything but I might have some ideas and hypotheses to the situation. The human resource, the gap between islands Firstly, I think the problem comes from the not-so-advanced framework of the whole education system itself. Indonesia comes 4th globally in terms of population. There's about 250 million of us. And yet, our education system doesn't have enough human resource to support
Post a Comment
Read more