What part which can broke a friendship? My answer is "money". At least, I had an experience of broken friendship to for money, read my story, don't let this happen on you.
Okay, let's start with me, my complete name Dandy Sudjono Widjojo, you can call me Dandy, if you joke me with the meaning of my name, I don't really care on it. I was born in 1991, I have two siblings, and both of them are female. I born and grew up in Balikpapan, until I took my under-graduates program at Pelita Harapan University in Surabaya. In academic, I am just an average students, or maybe a little higher. Let's go on.
When I was in lower secondary school, about grade 7 or 8, I had friends form my neighbor, I often played with them, it's about 2-3 times a week, sometimes I went to their house, or they went in my dad's shop, it's like a shop but a house in than me, sorry to said this, but I need to said that they are a poor family.
Although we had lots difference, but, it didn't became a problems, yet. We played anything, bicycle, fireworks, rent a play-station, skateboard, and kite. I can never forget when the street in front of our house half closed for road works, a crowd street became a playground. We played football and anything. I had two bicycles that time, and my friends have no one. So, I always lent it when we played bicycle, until they wanted to buy my bicycle. I asked my dad for the price and if he agreed with that, my dad said OK for the price IDR 1,150,000 it is not an expensive for the bike like that, but, it must be too expensive for them, and I just realized that too late. I talked with their parents, and we make a deal for credit payment, IDR 100,000 every month (my mum laugh at it). We still played together, until they didn't paid at the due date, my mom pursed me, to collect the payment, my mum taught me to be responsible about the money. I pursued them, and they paid the first payment, after that, the relation became cold. I moved to my new house. Even my family always went home from the shop about 1700 every workday. I don't play with them anymore, and it causes the relationship between us cold. My mom keep angry for my responsible, and I am afraid to ask them the next payment, but I also angry with them, I thought they wanted to forget about the bicycle payment. When we meet in the street, we didn't say anything. Month to months, year to years. We never catch up anymore, and now, my dad bought their house, which never their own house, for the business expansion, a property we said. I never see them anymore.
Since high school, I was so obsessed with computer, I had planned to study computer for my collage and I always find out more about computer, I bought computers magazine, even I didn't understand what I read, but, my obsession drove me, even my Mom find me computer wallpaper for my room. I had found the best IT University in the world, that was MIT, I dreamed to study there. When peoples ask me, what major I planed to study, nothing can stop me to said "I'll study IT", but, when I pray to God, I didn't ask for God choose me a university to study IT, but, I asked God to choose the best major for me. In my last year in high school, something made me realized that I'm not strong enough in mathematic, and I heard that job vacancy for IT had already full. So I choose finance for my another option and I got my admission in UKP for finance, but I also admitted in Binus for IT, until UPH' team came, they promoted about UPH, and the brand of UPH made me believe to study here, at UPH Surabaya. Minus all of UPHS weaknesses, I love liberal arts in here, especially when it studied about God.
So for my closing part, I want to tell you that money is not everything, but, almost everything needs money. I am not a greedy man, or a man that money oriented, but nowadays, I realized the important and dangerous of money. Maybe for the haves, it sounds ridiculous, but for who have not, it can be as important as friends, human lives, family, or even God. Be wise with money otherwise it will control you.
Life do changes, and we should adapt on it fast, but keep the good value in life, don't leave it for friendship or even love, for anything else, ask God for help.
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