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?
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