GoiPeace International Essay Contest

sapa tau ada yang tertarik.. (un)fortunately, only for those below 25 y.o.

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Young people from around the world are invited to enter the 2008 International Essay Contest organized by UNESCO and the Goi Peace Foundation with the sponsorship of the Earthrise Society.

Contemplating the past.. and the future..

I was writing on my last post when I thought about this one.. things I just picked up from the video inspired me to do this sort-of-contemplation of what I have been doing in the past and what I will be doing in the future.

Change… it echoes in my head. As of today, I officially leave the world of youth and enter the world of supposedly-adult. I am 26 y.o. now, an age that I define as adulthood*… I knew back then that I would need a change as of today, from young-adult to real-adult .. But today, as I am sitting on my warm carpet in my warm room, alone, writing a paper (supposedly) that’s due today, on my birthday, on my 26th birthday, on the day I am supposed to change in a way or another.. I wonder how my life is going to be in the future. Am I going to stay like this forever? Am I going to be one of those people whose life is like what is written on someone else’s novel? Who went to school until graduate, get a job, get married, have children, buy house, car(s), go on retirement, and spend their life contemplating on the past? *well, you can change the order if you wish*..

three interesting things I’ve always agreed on

As some of you might have known, I don’t really like politics. Not because it’s such a unreachable topic for me.. nor because it’s not that interesting for me.. but because I don’t see anything new in it.. it’s the same old story.. They are fighting for their own interest in the name of public. Yeah, right. Public whose blood are spilled on the way to democracy. It’s like looking at the same crack on the wall no matter how hard you paint the wall to cover..

I was working on my paper and needed some distraction from the stress when I found this out… it’s such a hot topic right now.. a topic I find so interesting as it will define the world’s future. New thing happens on the other side of the world and I just can’t resist it to take a look at it. And I really do fall for it. It’s simple, it’s neutral, it’s visionary, it’s inspiring.

winter snow..

snow… somehow it lifts my mood.. just like sunshine… makes it worth to live in the winter .. and looking through my window.. I wonder how many years I have left here to see the view.. I’m surely gonna miss Japan..

Notes on pictures:

1. view from window

2. house next door..

.. written and published by utilizing Qumana..

 

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