Seize the (holi)day!

HO-LI-DAY

Something which in this past year I really enjoy. As a fresh graduates who have just tasted a bit of the working world, holiday, or so called 'tanggal merah' is the day that I really wait for. When it comes to holiday, it feels like there is nothing more valuable than that.

There is nothing more valuable than: TIME. 

Well yes, your salary sometimes can't buy you happiness.

A holiday is an event which makes me feel really grateful, excited indeed. As I live through my life, somehow I felt God always has many ways to remind me to always feel grateful. I'm an architect, and I was working at a firm which run in an entertainment sector. It means I must go to the office 6 days a week, every Monday until Saturday. There's no such thing as "cuti bersama" or "libur kejepit". Our office working hours is more than 40 hours a week, which according to some literature I read, work more than 40 hours a week is not good for our brain and human productivity. Speaking of it, every single free times and holidays just made me feel gratitude and you have no idea how much I said "Thank God" in my heart. No kidding, seriously. Doesn't mean to be such a little spoiled brat, but hey, who doesn't need holiday??

Moreover, there in my office, we have many people working by time-shift. It means they have to come either at day and night and unfortunately, even on public holiday. I called them 'the field worker'. If I worked in a different office, for example in my first office in Jakarta when I had my internship, I might not felt the way I feel now. I might think that everybody just as lucky as I am, have an exact schedule of work and of course we can easily have our day off, even if it's not a public holiday. But not everyone has the same situation. It rarely happens to field-worker people, whether the site is off-sea-shore or simply in a mall. You know what, my heart touched, seeing this guys in my office working so hard and didn't care about holiday just in order to gave their child a plate of food, and to make their little family have a proper shelter to live.

How lucky I am, rite?

I still can taste a little bit of fresh air outside the office, a time for solitude in my comfy bed, sometimes even I spent my holiday in brutally hedonist way. I don't have any responsibilities to feed my child, yet. 

I'm a little bastard lucky girl.

Unfortunately, not everyone are able to appreciate the concept of ' holiday'.

I am not here to judge.

The question is ; why?

Is it because they don't know yet how it feels to be a lap dog worker?

Is it because they have all the money and ticket vacation wherever they want just because their parent could afford it?

Or, is it because they are a typical hardworker bosses who realize time is money and all they have to do is work, work, and work?

(for the latest, okay I can't argue that. Somehow we need people like that, aren't we? ;p)

But, WHY?

 why? won't you feel the sunshine and the skies with me? it's beautiful, indeed.. :)
Sunset time at Maratua Paradise Resort, Derawan Island, East Borneo.
an amazing getaway sponsored by ACI detikcom

amazed by an ultra cool architecture at Ulen Sentalu Museum, Kaliurang, Jogjakarta

a public holiday impulsive backpacking trip by train and no planning at all :)

an afternoon at Echo Beach, Canggu, Bali

a weekend leisure, refreshing from our office days in Bali

 playing in a private beach while doing hoping island in Karimun Jawa Islands (I forgot what island it was)

a super cheap but luxury vacation before facing the 4th grade in college

Snorkeling at Kakaban Beach, Derawan Islands, East Borneo

also an amazing getaway sponsored by ACI detikcom

photography : Alfindra P.

did I said how lucky I am?

Back to the past a lil' bit, I have a sad experience when I was still in high school. Back then, I always feel crappy mellow when I saw a beautiful blue skies and sunshine above me, especially in the morning. That because I knew, I will not be able to seize that moment with my loved one. I can't tell here why. I just can't. (please noted that my loved one is not a vampire, ok? trust me)

That is one of the reason why I always mad with people who can't appreciate a tiny little thing called holiday. There are millions of people who missed their free time, their freedom, or simply just craving for a morning fresh air and a touch of sunshine on their skin.

You should feel lucky if you are not one of the people I mentioned above. You have to.

Well, it's their choice and none of my business anyway, but I just felt, disturbed, you know. I just can't appreciate people who can't appreciate a little good thing in life. Once again, I'm not here to judge.

Thank you, and please enjoy your holiday, cause I believe it will worth every second.

... and be grateful for every little thing in life, you don't know what you've got 'till it's gone. :)

Happy (long) weekend all!