Wisdom-to-share

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allow you to grow. – William Shakespeare This note is written for my friend, he is in comma since a couple days ago. We missed the high school year to be a friend but we at least become a friend after that. I only can pray for you now. Thank you for being my friend. In my life I know that so many people have their own impression about me. Some of them didn ’ t want to be my friends because they had their own opinion about me. It was funny, how people judged me sometimes.     “ Lina, you can bake a cake … . O …   I don ’ t think you can, because you are not like the one who can cook and bake “   Or one of my elementary school was shocked when she knew I became a teacher, “ How come you become a teacher … you were the rebellion student in our catholic school “ I think people build their description about me without understands clearly about m

“Your heart determines if you are rich or poor” ― Sonya Withrow At the certain stage in our life, we probably can see clearly how people around us have their opinion about our life. These are some opinion they have about my life; “ Lina, you are so lucky, your daughters already graduated from college and I think you can retire now and you don ’ t need to work hard anymore. You need to enjoy your life ” “ Lina, it is your time to make more money in your life. You can invest your money to buy apartment. This is really good investment, you can sell it double the price later ” “ Lina, it is better if you buy this life insurance, so you will have a benefit in the future for your children ” Now I look into myself, my opinion about my life are: I have to say I am blessed to have my daughters and my job as teacher. Do I want to retire because I don ’ t need to send more money for my daughters ’ education? I don ’ t think so. I love my job and I never work hard

“One day spent with someone you love can change everything.” ― Mitch Albom , For One More Day It was Thursday afternoon couple months ago, when I was about to accompany my mother to see her doctor; it was her regular checked up. I saw something different in the way she walked and the way she spoke, something crossed in my mind, she got stroke. However she denied the condition, she tried so hard to walk and speak properly.   We went to see the doctor; she seemed okay in front of the doctor.   Base on her age I was worried something happened. My minds wondered ... Along that night I couldn ’ t sleep well. I decided to tell myself, if something bad happened … I would let her go. The next day, I went to teach and I still said, “ Mom are you okay? Please take a rest during the day. No body will be at home and please be careful ” Only God knew what was in my mind.   In the afternoon I got the message from my sister in law who came from Bandung, she texted me saying, “ Somethi