You'll Never Walk Alone.... Count your blessings one by one

God has been good to me

Yes, indeed, He has been good to me all this time. Deep inside my heart, I always know it for sure, but I keep taking everything for granted and did not put a lot of thought to it until my good friend mentioned it to me, commenting that my life at the current situation has finally becoming better and that good things has been happening in my life lately.

I was once in the lowest point I've ever felt in my life. Thank God, I still have family, best friend and few friends who did not turn their back, believing in me and supporting me to climb up the stairs, encouraging me to see the beauty of life by being able to survive.

After all those hard times, now I can stand at the point where I'm able to see life at a new perspective and hope. I still have families and that is one blessing I should really appreciate and be thankful of. I still have a best friend who always stand by my side no matter what people say, no matter what the price was for my friend. I still have someone who is willing to be a mentor and make friendship with me, from whom I learned many things and to be blunt a bit. I gained new friends who can at least see things with an objective view. All these took some hard time, a really-really hard and hurting one, which was worth the outcome and the pain.

The journey, from which I was able to overcome, has turned me back into one with positive attitude, a person with hope and some experience towards people's bad behavior. With that in mind and heart, I was able to look for opportunities and chances which lie ahead for my future sake.

I just recently got accepted as an intern in a company which has been declaring its legacy in Indonesia for 75 years (thank God). Although I was expecting to be placed in a marketing-strategy related division, I did not complaint when I was assigned into their CSR Department, assisting the Public Health & Education Program Manager, since experience and networking was all I wanted for now.

The company was one of a company who cares about its employees and pampers them by providing facilities beyond expectation and I was very lucky to have the privilege in using them: meals which can be traded with consumer goods, lenient but responsible working hour, flexible working days since I still have classes on campus, wide selection of newspapers on every single floor, pantry with its goodies and most importantly: fitness center and sauna. Yeay!!!

For the record, I've been holding myself not to enroll in any fitness center, although the temptation was very huge, by telling myself "It's not yet the time." In the end, God has made my wish came through. I can now exercise in a fitness center without paying a single penny. My Lord Jesus really answers His people wish although they did not ask for it. Not to mention the 16 GB iphone I got from an uncle few days ago. God knows I've been holding myself for quite some time not to buy a new cell phone but instead always using old ones I got from my sister. Yet, He knows I've been considering and hoping for an iphone ever since it was launched in the States (I was there...).

What my friend mentioned about progress that happens in my life just made me believe that I'll never walk alone and that there's a golden sky at the end of a storm. Indeed, now I believe that there's always a rainbow after a rain (although I barely see one in Jakarta).