“Come And Go”

It is an usual things in my family to go out of city as easy as going to nearest shop nearby my house. It is not a huge problem (anymore) especially for the children. You will find that sometimes within a week different several family members out of city and will come back few days. You can find that this week my mother go to Jakarta, while my father go to Manado and then at the time my Mother back to Jakarta, I go to Surabaya and then 3 days later my brother go to somewhere else for couple days.

Sometimes people wondering it is so easy left the house for something in my family. Like there is no further consideration. We just prepare all we need and then plan something, and go. For us, it is about the important things to do, you just go and finish it. That’s easy.

In our family, there is unsaid rule that, you can go anywhere you want and for anykind of reason as long the purpose is clear and you do not put yourself in danger. So far there are no serious problems happen on the travelling thing among my family (I hope not in the future). The unsaid rules for me in the past were quite tight. My mother always worried when I was travel by myself, especially using public transportation. She always had a driver and a car for me to drive me to the city I want to visit. Right now, not that tight anymore. I insisted and went several times by myself using public transportation. I prove to them that I am capable to do that and they trust me.

Me, myself really enjoy travel, especially using public transportation (the economic ones). Sometimes it is not pleasant but I enjoy it and I always amazed by everything I see and people I meet. The view, the food, the situation, the culture, even the strange chat with stranger in the bus. By taking the economic ones, I can save my money and at the same time can give an opportunity to myself to thank God. But everytime I travel by myself, my mother and my father always advice me not to take anything from strangers. “It is dangerous!” they said. “Keep caution too, Pipiet!!!”

21 April 2008