Hundred percent!!

One day, in a coffee shop … I was about to pay my coffee. A waiter who often met me there asked me this questions, “Madam, do you like to do exercise?” I asked him back, “Yes. Why do you ask me that question?” He said, “You look young and pretty”

I said confidently, “I know I am pretty, even when no body says it… I will tell myself that I am pretty” 

Someone behind me said, “Wow … you are so confidence. People might not think you are pretty” 

I said, “Can you really read what people thinks about you? If you cannot recognize your own mind, how come you are so sure about what they think about you? If that minds cannot help you to build your confidence, forget it. Yes we need to be confidence, and don’t let anyone turn you down. A confidence is hard to build and it might take years to build it. Start from today you have to tell yourself that you are beautiful”

People are worry about others’ opinion, they never live their 100 percent capacity, and they keep wondering, worrying and overthinking. Time will not wait us to make a right decision about ourselves. Time will leave us behind … 

Today is the end of 2018, and most of us think about New Year resolution. How many of us can achieve our last year resolution. 10 percent? 15 percent? Or ZERO percent? 

How about a New Year resolution, live your life 100 percent of you??

Like C. Joy Bell C said: 

“Life is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other people think about you. In the first place, if they had better things going on in their lives, they wouldn't have the time to sit around and talk about you. What's important to me is not others' opinions of me, but what's important to me is my opinion of myself.” 

Good-bye 2018

Welcome 2019

Lina Kartasasmita** December 31, 2018 at 9.58 PM 

If not now then when

Tuesday December 18, 2018 was a contest day in my regular club meeting. It was table topics contest, and the question was “If not now then when”

I wanted to answer the question but I was not a contestant. However if I have a chance to answer that question, I would say:

If I were single and I had so much money and one of my dreams is to travel around the world. I would definitely take the chance to go around the world. I would not think twice because if not now then when. However if I were poor, I would start to save the money so one day I could travel around the world and I would tell myself If not now then when …

If right now, right here …there are some people look unhappy and if we could help to make them smile again. I would ask you all If not now then when. Help people right away when they really need us. 

If you haven’t called your parents, you should consider doing it now. If not now then when you will do it. Don’t wait the precious time to tell your parents that you are grateful to have them in your life. Don’t wait to tell your parents that you care about them and love them. 

If you have goals in your life, please ask yourself many times. If not now then when we would like to start…we couldn’t achieve our goals, if we keep waiting the good time to do …we wait until we are older and older. We have limited time in our life; time wouldn’t wait for us. 

If not now then when, it is a good question. Life is precious, time is precious but only action that you choose right now will make a different. 

If something good comes in your mind now, then just do it now. 

Roy. T. Bennett said, “The beginning is always NOW”

**Lina Kartasasmita** 19 December 2018, Jakarta 9.44 PM