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Balance


I’ve read how people have achieved a lot, do better at their young age, consistently building their pathway to their life purpose, well connected to their right partners, and everything that I believe is better than mine now. This is not about their ‘success’ but about their dark years and how they managed to stand up and fly after that. Each of these people has a full luggage of life experiences, competencies, wisdom and values. Then I started to look at mine.

I wonder how they manage everything, especially their family. How do they spend their quality time?

These past few weeks I’ve been busy with work and volunteering project. I know I want to do both, I know I have to do those things now in my age before I have my little new family, which I still have no clue about that. I still want to have a language course, sports, etc. Activities aside from work sometimes consume my family time, I don’t mind as long as I still have a day each week to spend with my whole family, but this is below my family expectation. 

 Things were easy when I lived alone in Bandung, but like it or not the game has changed now.  Daughter should be home at 10 pm, otherwise my dad and mom can’t sleep well and wake up all night. At this age, in this city, in my colleagues mind, it might be ridiculous to have this ‘Cinderella’ rule but it happens. I don’t mind, I share their thoughts about this and I fully agree with that. The issue is that I can’t explain it well to my colleagues yet.

Mom sometimes demands time more than I can offer. I don’t mind, I love her so much. I just do not know yet how to explain that my non-work activities are equally important. Life is more than work that I need to learn through diverse experiences.

These little burdens should not hamper me to live the life as I want it to be, I just don’t know yet how to keep it balance, to be happy as a daughter and a doer. I will not think about the other role I might play in the future. But I’m pretty sure that if I have a balance in my life now, future life will be easier. Wish me luck, wish us luck!

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