Thanks To Today's Internet.

Today’s internet shows us that:

1.  Knowledge have no limitation
2. World is full of conspiracy
3. People no longer have privacy

I was once a big fan of social media, especially its ability to fulfill my “stalking desire”. It was good to see other people’s (artists, to be specific) lifestyles. It is easy to find someone’s personal information. We would know their appearance simply by scrolling their photos on facebook; their way of talking or writing style can be judged from their twitter or blog; we also can easily know how they think about something by reading their blog or status; linkedin gives us their professional life information starting from their schools and also their experiences, skills, achievements, and position in their job; how their friends treat or thinking about them by seeing their tags (and read the caption) on instagram; and snapchat or today’s instagram fiture: snapgram show us their daily activity. 

I was happy that social media helped me a lot to accelerate the process of building relation(friend)ship because I could easily know people’s interest and had a good conversation with them.

But someday, I get bored.

(Ditambah perkembangan media social yang cepet banget sampe gak bisa ngikutin sumpah gila)

Then I decided to go back to the old days: to directly interact more.

I found that there are so many things we can learn from (direct) human interaction. 

You would appreciate people’s privacy more, not all people want to talk about themselves or tell you something you want to know, either they don’t trust you or they just don’t want to tell you. But you need to live with that, then you will learn how to comfort them till they want to tell you (atau ya masih gak mau ngasih tau jadi kita bisa belajar hargai privasi orang). 

You also will find that some people may not trust you but when the others do, you don’t want to waste their trust. And, once you get the information you will find that is worth the struggle and you are going to appreciate that (and yourself) more. 

The most beautiful thing that you will get with doing more direct human interaction is you can see another (good) side of people. People just show you things they want to show in their social media. But somehow you are not always what you write. It is easy to judge people from their social media but apparently people have more good sides in them to look up to. 

Dan buat saya yakin bahwa:

“Dunia ini adalah sekolah, dan semua makhluk hidup di dalamnya adalah guru.” -RAZ

Yang mengajarkan saya banyak bentuk kebaikan, menjadikan saya manusia yang lebih baik, dan memberikan saya kepercayaan penuh bahwa setiap orang punya sisi baik yang bisa dicontoh dan sisi buruk yang tidak perlu dikomentari.

Thank you, today’s internet. You taught me that there is always a good in going back.

The feeling is priceless.

Utari.

Fresh gradute who is still feeling grateful for her 4 years of incredible college life.