unnecessary?

ever since i owned that benrik diary, ever since i volunteered to teach at a taman baca, ever since that bajaj driver gave me a glimpse of his life and ever since i read one of djenar's maesa ayu's short story, also ever since i watched that show on E!, i kind of got struck by realization. i'll explain to you four of the things i wrote above starting from benrik's diary.

so my sister bought this diary but she gave it to me. it's titled, this diary will change your life 2009

this diary has a 2009 new year's revolution which is effing funny. one of my favorite is 'make 1,879,422 pound sterling and no more'

hahaha. well, one of them is 'subvert consumer society from within'

so you write on a little card and put them inside an item in a store so that the buyer will find it once he/she purchased the item. one of the example is a hat. you put a card in the hat that says 'imagine how many families you can feed with the price of this hat'

and inside a boot, you put a card that says, 'with this boot, you are crushing the poor'

i like that idea. i imagined if i was the one who received one of those cards in an item i just bought, i would prabably feel effing guilty and decided not to use what i just bought. this also got me thinking, all this unnecessary luxury, wouldn't it be better if everyone'd donate the money rather than spend it on expensos? but well, god has a weird way of working.

number 2. volunteering to teach at a taman baca. lately i've been feeling so nyampah and i've always wanted to be productive or at least be a useful human being. so i was uberly excited when my friends--wira, ima, janoko-- asked me to join them teach this taman baca at kutek. so there's this majorly nice person who rented a small space at kutek and turned it into a taman baca for the kids who lived around there. unfortunately, he ran out of volunteers to teach there. i couldn't imagine if someone soooo nice was let down by a stupid matter like no volunteers.

the children are really really cute! i mean really! they're also really smart and sometimes i just wish i could take them home with me. lol. they also seem to enjoy going to the taman baca since there are a lot of interesting books there. i was just glad that i could be a form of happiness for them. this thought me that happiness really do come in many shapes and they surely don't have to be hmmm... expensive.

now let's get to the part about that supir bajaj. so everyday, as some of you may know, i go home by train. once i arrived at stasiun cikini, i took a bajaj to get to my house. so last week, the bajaj driver asked me if i remembered him. hence the fact that i ride a different bajaj everyday, of course i don't have a clue who he was. he said he has driven me home a few times earlier, i believed him seeing the fact that he knows where my house was without me having to give directions. then he told me that he hasn't been working for more than a month. this is because one of his kid was in the hospital earlier because of some lung disease. unfortunately, his child didn't make it. the bajaj driver told me how he had to take care of that child of his and that at the same time he had to pay the hospital bills which just adds up the burden of his utang2 di warung. seriously, i couldn't imagine how it was like to not work for more than a months while outcomes are piling up by the second and all that was topped by the death of his child. i just felt indescribably sorry for that driver. i know some of you may think he can be lying so that i'll pity him and give him extra money or whatever, but really, you should've seen him yourself. i just think that there was no way he could be lying. even he he was, i don't care. i still feel sorry for him. unfortunately, 20ribu was all that i had that time. so that was all i can give him. sigh

so i guess without me continuing, you could already figure out where this post is going. luxury isn't necessary! hello, people out there are starving!