The Next Stop Station

Last posting: April 30
Next posting: September 17
Which is today. What had happened between that time? Urm.. doctor’s answer, my birthday, my first own reportage trip, a termination and followed by a goodbye. The thing I really want to bring up right now is my termination at work.

At the first time when I became a journalist, I was worried about drowning too deep to work there because at that time I really liked the job. I was worried to be constantly carried away and did not know when to stop and continue the sacred journey to the West (emang kera sakti), I meant to clear a way for my true goal. But a friend said, "Just let it flow, do not be so well-planned. Even if later you are drowning, it may indeed be your destiny. "Okay, then I let it flows."

And as I let it flows, I guess the universe said the opposite. Or it was just about the time. Actually, I was trying to keep up for 4 months before August. What do I keep up with? The vision. It seems blurry over time. My vision and my media vision, we don’t see it eye to eye anymore. It doesn’t suit me any longer and I can’t simply give in cause it was about personal preference. Until July, I feel that I couldn’t stand anymore, I guess I would leave in August, I said to myself. And maybe that’s the time for me to rethink what I really want to be. Blam! So it is. I stopped working permanently at my media in August. And now I’m struggling (yet cool) to seek my future career, so thrilling and exciting. But on my way, I still do writing for my media as a freelance journalist and looking up opportunities to get my writing published in some other media. This is also exhilarating. I am still thrilled with writing things, hatching ideas and all. I am even still curious about being a journalist or writer in a magazine, but I should hold this temptation to clear a way to my dream career. It should start now.

However, for a year being an environmental journalist was a blessed experience. I’ve got a good partner and good mentor (my chief editor). I’m so grateful to have this one year experience. Nevertheless, there are some issues left related to my media, it’s not me it’s them. But I’m not going to whining online. Then, yeah never mind. I'm really enjoying this time anyway.

So, for all that rolling down now, let’s cross our fingers! Roll and rock on!

Oops, I almost forgot, I also want to cheers all of my friends who are also jobless yet happy at the moment (cause we have so much to do), let's celebrate our freedom. We're ready for the next chapter and keep spinning girls!

Life is the train, not the stations -- Paulo Coelho