You are what you think!

A couple days ago, like usual I took my friend, Rani, to home. No, I had nothing with her! She's just a partner in crime! A fella who help me in the office, that's for sure. Well, the story begun on the street when she told me about her meeting with her grandma. Having a different point of view, different age, and different life commonly creates a different taste for people. Hhm, different feeling I guess. According to Rani, a 24 years old girl who had been studying nursery in Aussie for approximately 5 years, the cremation ceremony or Ngaben (in Balinese) is merely wasted. "It spends a lot of money!", she said. "Ok, as a Balinese, though I'm not a Hindu, I do understand what the Ngaben purpose is. But what makes me confuse is; why we have to spend a lot of Rupiah for the dead. Well, instead of 'burn' the money, why don't we give the money to the needy family. There are some of our relatives who still live suffering. The money will be much much more valued if we gave it to them.", she argued.

"You know what, Rani? It's just a matter of feeling! There's nothing wrong with that! If we love someone, or if we belief in something, we will give anything we had to him/her anytime anywhere. We will do everything for them as a kind of devotion of what we have believed." I replied. "Well, just like you Rani. You like smoking right?! As a cigarette's holic, you may sacrifice your money and... of course your lungs. You might forget that the smoke could harm other's health." I argued. "So?", she asked. "Frankly speaking, instead of 'burn' your money, why don't you just stop smoking and give your money to the orphans. Though in a small number, Rp7000 x 30 days can help those children to pay the school fee. Well, I'm not trying to defense your grandma's. But I'm just trying to help you to understand the beauty of life", I replied.