A Decision That May Have an Effect for a
Lifetime
Going back home after an intense
training is a wonderful thought. I miss my family. We have done with all our
tasks and things that need to be submitted. Documents that have made me dizzy
have come to an end. It’s time to say goodbye to fellow trainees who have
already been part of my life. We laughed at each other’s mistakes while doing
our tasks. Learning to accept mine and others weaknesses, at the same time
cherish each one’s strengths. Learning by sharing things from each other as
each one has many different and unique experiences while we were in the field. And
I’m coming home. That’s
right! I’m coming home!
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At the terminal
I rode in a taxi. I asked him to take
me to the bus terminal with my friend whom I only knew when we were in the
training. We paid the taxi and waved goodbye. With a smile and can never be
hidden, a feeling of probably missing each other. But we each long to see each
other again when we’ll have a mass training and would see each other again.
So I went to the bus going back to my hometown. I fell in line to ride on a bus almost half way full. While falling in
line I notice a guy in his 50s with his children sitting on the floor waiting
for their mom to finish paying for their tickets. That man looked like he’s
just an ordinary man. He’s quite brown in his skin complexion. Quite dark brown, a mark of hard-working probably because he’s always exposed to the sun. He
wanted to talk with the other passengers but it seems he has no confidence to
talk with them. He tried but no one listened. I felt pity on him as his innocent children
looking at him. I wanted to talk to him but I was afraid that he might not
listen to me too. So I was just listening to him while he was trying to talk with
his wife who is also busy in monitoring their things. And then a long silence
fell from his mouth and never opened anymore even when he was lifting his baggage
to be put inside the cupboard of the bus that needs to talk with the attendant when you ask them to do it for you but with no words uttered from his
mouth.
While I was thinking of the things in
the future. What about me? What if I were like him? Because I am a quite dark
brown too. What if I get older like him, could I experience the same way too.
How would I response. I’m short and he has an advantage when I compare myself
with him. Those are the things that occupy my mind. The world is cruel. It sees
on your outward appearance and judges. It sees the color of your skin, the way
you dress, speak, and even your height. The world respects you when you fit how
the world lives. What a scary thing!
A tattooed couple
My thought is bothered when a couple
has passed by with bodies fall of tattoos. I just glanced at them not to show
that I was observing them. They had a big backpack filled with their things as
if they did the mountain-climbing in the middle of the city. They were trying
to fall in line too. They’re going where I was going too. It seems they wanted to
chase their time. They went to another bus and came back to our bus again. As I
was observing them, I realized they are already in their 40s. While I was
watching their skin filled with tattoos, I was wondering if they really wanted
it to be until they get older. Probably, when they were still young, it was
cool to have those tattoos. But now, I think it’s not anymore. How much more when
they get older. What if they want to take it out, what will happen? So, one
thing comes to my mind while I was looking at them in a glance is that I have
to be careful when I decide something because if not and the decision will
harvest a result and I’ll suffer it for a lifetime then that would be too hard.
A point wherein I didn’t want to be but as a result of my folly, I might be
suffering for a lifetime would be too sad to figure out. Just as a tattoo which
is too cool for now but it wouldn't be as cool as before when we grow old.
What a beautiful lesson just when I fell
in line to pay for my ticket. Just like with the saying, “You will learn
something every day ,if you pay attention.” But I would say, “If you pay attention, you will learn something every moment, .”
So, what do you think? What can you say?
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