Developing a spiritual life: It's a complicated world

It's a complicated world. Illegal things could happen right in front of our eyes and there's nothing we can do except pray.

Rania wasn't born yet when I worked for a small group of smart people led by someone whom I knew  very well. Their office was located not far from where I lived.  They also offered flexible working hours. So it's supposed to be a very convenient job. What I had to do was coordinate activities of purchasing firms that were targeted by clients. It wasn't a very difficult task, but I realized later on that  this kind of business, which involved big amounts of bribery, was illegal. Luckily I didn't stay there for long, not more than two months. I didn't even want to think about cashing the cheque they gave me.
It's a terrible world ...particularly before the Corruption Eradication Commission / KPK was formed!

Years later, my husband and his only sister inherited a piece of  land from  their late father, a  kindhearted person whom I respected very much. That land was located in Pekan Baru, Sumatera, a very far city  located on a different island from where we live now. My husband's family used to live there but it was a very long time ago. It became an abandon land though there was a small family whom was permitted by my late father-in-law to raise a little house and live there for the time being.
My husband's family wanted to sell the land. A difficult problem arose as that family refused to leave. I already watched enough TV news about policemen expelling people from the land that they illegally occupied by force. So when my husband had a thought to hire policemen for the same purpose, I had to speak out against it.
At the end, a better solution was agreed by donating of a portion of the land for those illegal inhabitants. It didn't stop there. That family still demanded for a slightly wider piece of land. What a crazy world!

I wrote this post at midnight while I couldn't sleep and really needed to pray. I would pray for a better world for my children to live in. I would also pray a special prayer for Alanda Kariza, a very young, brave and talented Indonesian girl whose mother was facing financial difficulties as well as a very serious lawsuit .

The following paragraph, which was quoted from her blog, made my tears drop :
"......I can live with that. I’m willing to work part time, do internships, and work my ass off to publish more and more books if it would help my parents, especially my mother. Although I don’t have my own car and I can’t shop luxurious stuff just like my friends do, I’m happy, and I’m willing to live like that....Even if I have to let Indonesian Youth Conference go, even if I have to work hard 24/7 to live without having to ask for allowances from my mother… I’m willing to do so ..."

Get prepared my children, be a very cautious person. Be tough too. It's a really complicated world out there...