Traffic jam, sunny day, unpredictable weather,
poluttion, skyscraper building, beautiful lights on the night, floods,
high-number of criminality and poverty. Jakarta have all of the
metropolitan-should-have things. The bads and the goods. A few days ago, in the
work hour I got a chance to had a trip, my own trip to walk around Jakarta by
myself. Without my own car, I choose to take the public transportation and I
just bring an important things such wallet and handphone. I just want to
experience how it feels to be a pedestrian in my favorites places on earth,
Jakarta. I get interesting to get this small trip, when I looks there are a lot
of people in social media who get annoyed and saying such a rude things over
like when their stuck in to traffic jam or their house being trapped in flood that
comes every year.
My
experience begin, when I walked in to train station about 7.00 in the morning
to get experienced how it feels to ride train in the work hour. At that hours
people used to begin their activities like employers go to office, and students
go to school or colleges so I’m pretty sure it will crowded in the busy hour
like that. My prediction completely right, I got such a shock-theraphy when I
walked into the train. Like, its unbelieveable there’s a lot of people who
jostle in the train, their pull each other in the sake of their standing
position. Its even hard to standing in the properly way, so don’t you ever
thinking to sitting in the seat unless you’re from the first station,
disability person, or you’re a pregnant lady. The air conditioner even couldn’t
work properly, the air becomes warm and sweat starting get in to my faces. I
wondering how hard it feels to stuck in to this situation everyday. Thank God I
shouldn’t do that. I’m thankful and start to understand why people get annoyed
taking train in the busy hour.
After
experienced the spartan feeling in train, my feets bring me into another place.
A place in the centre of Jakarta where you could see the skyscraper building
along the roads. People with suits and tie, dress, fancy car and tasty coffee
comes one by one. Some of them take public transportation as well but their
still have good looking visual with their suits, they’re seems going to work
into that building. Its good to see it, but it turns tragic when I move my sight
in to the back of building. What could I see? I could see the river, it’s not
ther river that you imagined like in the amsterdam or paris. Its completely
different. There’s a lot of slam house
with people who dressed like a hobo. Their bring the cart with garbage in it.
Pemulung, thats what their called in Indonesia. Pemulung is usually work to
collect the garbage and sell it in to the recycle company. Their don’t get any
properly paid. It means their life is so far from properl. Their lives in the
unproperly house with trash around it. How contrast if we take a look in to
what happens in the skyscraper building. I get another experience, Jakarta
might seems cruel for some people, Jakarta might seems crowded from another
people but for some sort of people Jakarta is a fancy place. Everything you
have to do is prepare yourself to be a proper person to lives in Jakarta, sure
Jakarta is cruel but is not for anyone is just for people who giving up. Try
your best, is not about the place anyway, its about yourself after all. Where
you want to place? Good or bad ones? Stop complaining and think about it.
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