Talking to old friends always remind me of the other side of myself now. I just ended telephones with my two best friends during my college time. It's funny that three of us ended living in Jakarta as entrepreneur. With these similarities, both in place and background, we do really have many things in common.
One of them open a restaurant with her husband at the North Jakarta. The restaurant is a four stories home-office building with two stories for eating area, one story for kitchen, and the top of it is their home. The customers has already been a regular, most of them are executives work at its neighborhood. She told me that business is okay. Like many other new business there are 'good days' when people keep coming in and 'bad days', when only few eat at their place. Since she has to stay at her restaurant the whole week except Sunday, she feels her life is a little bit boring. I just laughed when she said this because I experience the same thing which is heightened on this month when no new customers approach us to make some design.
The other one told me her rocky relationship with her mother-in-law. She is very upset because her mother-in-law is still reluctant to accept her status as her son's wife. She show it by talking without looking to my friend's face. I don't know the reason, I think she just doesn't like me, my friend said. And it upsets her husband, too.
Her husband really loves my friend. He even attends a seminar how to be a good husband. And my friend said to me that her husband changes a lot in a good way. She also suggested me to join the seminar how to be a good wife that held this August. I said to her that I'm very interested but I have to spend money a lot for my mioma medication and probably operation. But I'll think about it.
Another thing she told me is her father-in-law's debt. He is so addicted to gambling that it's already costed her husband's family home, worth 3 million rupiahs. But the money is still inadequate to cover the debt. My friend is really worry because her husband's family wants to drag them into this problem which can affect their savings, significantly, IF they do join them. But the case is no because they just don't have the capacity to help her husband's family since my friend still has the home loans to pay.
Then our conversation took us to the college years we spent together. She told me that through me and my family she knew that family can be close and peaceful, which she doesn't have any examples before. I said to her that I also learn from her how to survival and that everything is possible though you have nothing at the start.
Well, life... Like my priest said once, that everyone at every level of life has their own problems. We can easily jealous for other's appearance because we don't know what happen inside. If we allowed to understand in details, maybe we don't want to trade our lives with theirs.
I just reminded how lucky I am to have such a great family, the greatest gift that God grants to me.
