IT’S MY LIFE

Every seconds there are many babies bear to the world. Some of them maybe bear in rich family and get all the facilities. Some of them maybe bear in middle economy family. Some of them bear in poor family and don’t have anything. All of them have their own story about their life. And now it’s my time to tell about my life until now.
I born on 5th December 1990 in Makassar. Makassar is a big city in South Sulawesi. It is a beautiful city and it has delicious chinese food. I grew in a family that was not so rich. I have one brother and one sister. I am the youngest in my family. My parents opened a electronic store when I still baby until 2000. From 2000 until now my parent has Honda motorcycle repair shop. My parents always told me that when I was a baby, I could consumed a can of milk (weight about 800 grams)about 2-3 days. Of course, my parents thanked to God because the price of a can of milk 10 years a go is not same with now.
I have no problem when I was in kindergarten. One day when I was 6 years old, my father took me to his friend’s house. His friend was a navy seals. My father said to me “ Don’t got down from the car”, but I didn’t understand what he said then I got down from the car and suddenly there is a dog which come to me and bit me on my shoulder. Until now there is a scar on my shoulder because of dog’s bite.
And now I were in elementary school. When I was in elementary school, I realized that there is a problem, especially to make a friend. We were come from different family. Some students got all facilities they wanted and some students didn’t have any facilities. One day in 2nd grade in the elementary school. I have a friend. His names were Hardiansyah. He had an unique stamps. It was Monday and of course, we had a ceremony. I didn’t attend the ceremony and I hid in toilet because I want to stole my friend’s unique stamp. I succeded stole his stamp, but he told to my teacher that his stamp lost so my teacher ordered us to open our bags and my teacher caught me because his stamp was in my bag. And I was given a punishment by my teacher.
In May 1998, there was a racial unrest especially to Chinese people in Makassar. I think this is the moment I didn’t like in my life. In that time, the rich family could went to China or Singapore and stayed there until the situation were safe while middle economy family and poor family still stayed in Indonesia with the fear. Every time, there were some people threw stone to our house. My parents can not sleep at that time because they were fear if bad things happened.
As I was getting older, I entered one of the best junior high school in Makassar which was SMP Katolik Rajawali. Now my father didn’t give me an order to study anymore. He said to me that ”You must decided when is playing time and when is studying time”. Maybe this is the second moment I didn’t like in my life. I had a friend. His name was Adiyanto. I always had the same class with him. He always bullied me and I never told to my parents. Until one day when I was in 3rd grade in junior high school. My father picked up me and he saw me there was something different with me. I told him and the next day Adi called by my teacher and after that he never bullied me again.
After graduated from junior high school, I entered SMA Katolik Rajawali. When I was 2nd grade in senior high school, I was chosen to became class chief. This was the first time I became the class chief. In senior high school, I had a friend. His name was Anthony. When I was in 2nd grade, I sat together with him in the back of the class. Every time my teacher gave us exam, I and Anthony were cheating. Both of us had our task. His task was helping me in math, physics. And my task was helping him in another course like civics, biology, etc. Once a day, Anthony didn’t help me at the exam. And I was angry at him. Then he separated from me. At that time, I never spoke to him and he also never spoke to me. When he didin’t help me anymore, I tried to do math and physics exams with my ability. I tried to spoke and said I was sorry to him after 7 months. And after that, we sat together again. And I think maybe he is one of my best friend in my life.
Now, I am a third semester university student at Pelita Harapan University. I want to thank God because God gives me a chance to study at high quality university. I also have many nice friends that come from other region so we can understand other region’s culture. I also want thank God because I have lecturers that share their own experiences.
I think life in this world is not easily, because we can get any problem every time. Every problem has their own meaning to us. God gives us a problem not to make us suffer but to improve us so we become better and better.