A Journey

There is a time  for everything,   and a season for every activity under the heavens - Ecclesiastes 3:1- A couple days ago, I watched a movie with the title "In Time". It's a 2011 American dystopian sci-fi thriller film which tells about a future society where people stopped aging at 25 ( I bet the anti-aging cream factory will be closed down) and each people will have a clock in their hands that show how long they can live ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Time ). In the story, when some people become immortal because they have all time in the world; some have numbered days. Time becomes very valuable commodity more than gold, more than anything.  The wisest man who ever lived on earth, King Solomon, summarized his thoughts about time in Ecclesiastes. He stated that there's a time for everything on earth. There's a time to be born, there's a time to die. There's a time to weep and there's a time to laugh. There's a time to love, there'...

I had to read a book EQM: Emotional Quotient Management (by Antony Dio Martin) - the book is in Indonesian language by the way - and made a paper for passing 'Managing People and Organization' class. I had been tempted to skip reading through the pages of the book. However, I was really glad to say that I could finish reading all pages.So I got the whole pictures of emotional quotient management  and got very interesting insights about myself and others. One of the insights are about the masks that human wear daily. How often we use masks to disguise ourselves. We mask ourselves for the fear of rejection, pride, or simply we don't know our true identity. Our true identity is not just our names, or ID card, or where we are from, family, background; but true identity also about how comfortable we present ourselves to others without any pretension. Sound simple, but it's hard because sometimes we wear the masks without realizing it. We need to be honest to ourselves and...