Well, both my parents are successfully "formal workers" and my brother also followed the way to be one. My father has his own business, my mother is positioned as a top management and a guest lecturer in many universities, and my brother is an IT consultant in a foreign bank.
For the last 8 years in my life, I've been working as a "formal" worker. Starting as a secretary when I was merely 20 years old, I've been reaching a stable good position in my late twenties. I've done anything that anybody could do... I do the Marketing, Operation, Human Resource, IT, and even an Event Organizer. Just tell me and I can do it.
But I think that's it. I'm sick of all that.
Now I want to live the way I want to live...
My passion is to be a writer. I know I'm not really good in writing romance stories nor probably horror stories, but I always wanted to be a Travel Writer. Being a writer is all I want, and travelling is something that I could never resist to. I always long to search on new places, and my dream is to travel around the world.
But what my family would say for that?
Maybe just like what my man said to me earlier, "You have lived the way your parents want you to live for 28 years: you're being a nice girl, being a smart, being a top student for all the years, being a daughter that never bothered the parents, being a child that parents can be proud of, being just exactly what they want... Now it is the time for you to have your own life, be your own person... If you want to be a travel writer, just go, take that opportunity, go wherever your heart wants, be just yourself, don't be somebody else just to please your family... for it is your own life not theirs."
Maybe I have to be myself... maybe working like this is not really me. Maybe working behind the desk for 8 consecutive hours is just wrong for me. Maybe I have to push myself to have the courage of being myself not somebody else.
Well, having said that...
I DO see myself as a Travel Writer... Someday... When I'm ready to be exactly myself.
