When I try to avoid something or when I am reasoning.. He delivers me to a learning path. It’s not easy though.., yet I understand that he brings me into a better level of maturity. He opens my eyes, forges my heart, gives understanding to my mind. Hence, I will have a wider horizon of thoughts.
It’s not easy, but this is the learning path he shows me.
I learned a lot about life from my visit to Bandung Electronic Centre yesterday. It’s not about something special happened but it’s only a matter of daily-life experience. First of all, there is one small shop I entered. I was looking for a fan for my laptop. As a customer, I have a right to test the product and ask a few questions about what I’d like to buy, don’t I? That’s what I did yesterday.
“Can you turn on the fan?”, then unwillingly he did it.
“I’m sorry, is there any other better product? I don’t feel the air blown from this fan”
then this guy answer, “what do you expect? what do you want the fan to be?” (with high voice)
I didn’t like it, I said sorry and leaved the shop.
The second shop I entered displayed the fan I was looking for at the display shelf. It was lot cheaper then the previous store. For a product which is below 100 thousand rupiah, 25 thousand difference is a big difference. I decided to buy it and I ask the woman and guy there if they sell a usb-serial converter. They directly said ‘no’. Then I paid for the fan and while I was waiting for the receipt, I looked around and just after a few seconds I saw the usb-converter I was looking for. Amazing! This guys don’t know what they’re selling!!! Nevertheless, it was expensive. I don’t wanna spend 95 thousand rupiah for a converter when I don’t really need it.
The third funny thing. My mom was discussing with me about buying a camcorder for recording my graduation. Due to that, I was looking for a camcorder at BEC yesterday. Whala! I was so lucky. There was a JVC stand in the 3rd floor and I want to gather some information from the guy overthere. But from distance I saw that this guy was talking using cellphone. I came near and giving signal that I was interested to the products. Since I was near to him, I understood that he was talking with his relative or his girlfriend due to the language and tone he used. But what happened? Instead of stopping the conversation, he turned and showed his back to me and talked even more. I then just took some brochures and gave him signal that I took the brochure.
I am dissatisfied with the quality of service in BEC. I saw many worker of some stores were unwillingly to sell the products. The worker consider the store they’re working at as a place for hang out and chat. They are not nice to customer and they even consider customer as a disturbance.
Ultimatum for some people is considered as the easiest way to show their ‘power’. Unfortunately, the power itself is actually a pseudo-power. They are actually weak inside yet they want to show everyone else that they are strong. I feel sorry for this kind of people. They never want to be ‘below’ everybody. But what’s wrong with being ‘below’ everybody. Though I’ve seen many people who is ‘below’ everyone but actually they’re above everyone else. What’s wrong with being low-profile and modest? Do they think if they’re pretending to have high authority everyone else will think the same? Nope, they’re wrong. Everyone else will definitely feel sick about it. Hence, they will even lose their authority, they won’t be respected, they will be ‘below’ even more..
Never give an ultimatum easily. It will only show that you”re weak inside. Never expect someone to give you some respect for the ultimatum you give. Only mock and laugh which you’ll receive.
I think I am lucky to be multi-colored. What I mean here is that I do not belong to one color. Even though sometimes I am sad because of this. The yellow don’t think that I am yellow, the native don’t think I belong to them, not even the white. Every group rejects me. But, the now-version of me would like to say that I am lucky because of this. It is because I don’t have a mindframe of ‘I belong only to this group.’ Many people have this frame of mind and they would isolate themselves and identify themselves with the group.
Please don’t do that. You would never realize that outer box is just the same with the inner if you stay within the box all the time.. =)
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