Wednesday, December 30
Kemanakah Empati Sosial Para Pejabat?
| Para menteri kabinet Indonesia Bersatu jilid 2 diberi fasilitas kendaraan berupa mobil sedan mewah Toyota Crown yang harganya kira-kira 1,3 milyar. Saya tidak tahu apakah harus merasa senang dan bangga dengan status sosial para menteri negeri ini atau harus prihatin dengan fasilitas yang mereka nikmati tersebut. Satu sisi, mungkin ada orang-orang yang merasa bangga karena ditengah carut marutnya negeri ini dalam membangun kembali kekuatan ekonominya, para pejabatnya tetap tampil pantas dan necis dengan fasilitas mewah yang mereka nikmati. Dengan kata lain, orang tidak akan mengira bahwa mereka tinggal di suatu negeri di mana kemakmuran masih merupakan barang langka dan dambaan hampir setiap warga negaranya. Di sisi lain, ada orang yang mengecam sikap para pejabat tersebut karena mereka dinilai tidak memiliki empati sosial yang tinggi karena rakyat negeri ini masih bergulat dengan kemiskinan. Terlepas dari semua itu, saya hanya ingin mengatakan bahwa kehidupan di dunia ini memang tidak adil dan tidak akan pernah adil. Sampai kapanpun, selama matahari masih terbit di sebelah timur, kebenaran dan kemakmuran hanya akan menjadi milik para penguasa. Jika anda adalah penguasa, maka anda adalah pemegang lisensi Kebenaran dan Kemakmuran. Yang kuat, dia yang menang. Yang lemah, dia yang kalah. Suka atau tidak. |
Friday, December 18
Just a Piece of My Mind
| People talk too much these days but listen and ponder too little. Democracy is like a coin. On one side, it encourages people to assert their rights. On the other, it induces them to speak like hell, offensively and insensitively. After being repressed for 32 years, they really fit the proverb,"set a beggar on horseback and he will ride to the devil." As for me, I'm quite content to fit another,"still waters run deep." |
Thursday, December 3
Contemplation on A Raini Day
| My wife and I have recently discussed on the cost that we have to bear to bring up our future children. We primarily discussed on how much his school expenses that we have to support. Upon discussing this issue, we regret, perhaps like other millions of couples in the world, that we had not prepared this much earlier before. We wish that we had had a special saving account when we were still single which was intended for the cost of our children eduction. But it's no use regretting something in the past. So, we then opened a special saving account in a bank and we save a little of our income to this account, hoping that this saving will relieve our burden in financing our children's education. My wife and I have learnt a lesson from this issue. We think that it is wise, and it's a must, to educate our future children to save money from the early age, not for the sake of us as their parents, but for their own good when they want to get married or when they want to buy their first car. Because fortune favours the prepared mind. |
