Several appreciations will be granted upon whom does really deserve. But, what are the criteria those are actually applied in this respect?
In several cases, many different modes of criteria will be applied. Amid the differences, what I try to criticize is the mode when people can be appreciated just because they have money for doing the “acknowledged as proud” deed.
People may think that I am an envy person since I never have much money for achieving such accomplishments. But, whatever they thought about me let them try to consider what I try to explain below. If their final conclusion still makes me become hated, then I will let people to bear carefully in their mind that I am not that kind of person. But, it is again up to them.
I am actually confused with several appreciations those are granted upon them who can easily achieve something by money. I will take one example: for joining in an international organization, I firstly have to pay several amounts of money.
After joining in, I then can go abroad in order to make socialization with people across the world and doing some projects. And then, I can go back to my motherland and sharing some interesting stories in front of people. And some people will say: “I thought that you are very great since you can build up an international relation with other people.”
Furthermore, this kind of people will be granted some appreciations by several organizations just because they can go abroad and thus bear the Indonesia upon their shoulder.
What I try to explain in this real example is not to show how dull they who can go abroad. I never try to do this. As a free person, we can also freely choose what suits us the best. As Kierkegaard noted that people actually live in the sea of choices so to live is to choose. As long as they consider what have been done is useful, I try not to make justification that they have done something wrong.
My criticism comes when several organizations will grant this people. Why should it be criticized? Firstly, in case of going abroad. Indonesians do often think that going abroad is a private prestige. It can lift up their reputation among their peers. What I thought here is not merely shared by me.
I have talked to woman who has concern upon sexuality and woman affair. In our conversation, she once said about Indonesian workers who are often tortured. She said that what should be done actually was to alter the paradigm that going abroad was your prestige. She found many cases of Indonesian worker try to go abroad just because prestige. “They can do anything better in their country without has to suffer any torture.” That was what she said to me.
Bearing Indonesia upon their shoulder cannot also be used as a valid consideration since all Indonesians are doing the same but in contrast condition since there are several people who do not make any intensive contact with abroad people. Hence, it is imperative to bear in mind that actually in daily life behavior, Indonesians will always be monitored by other Indonesians and even outer people. Hence, to bear Indonesia is actually a daily life duty that should be bore by every Indonesian. Is it not a paradox when we know that people can be a good person with abroad people and doing the opposite unto the fellow peers? How can it be named except the mode of faking?
Secondly, the criticism comes from money that is used for going abroad. Is it true that the money comes from their daily and continuous effort or it is only a grant from their parent? If the money is only a gift, a further question does rise here: is it true that people who have not enough money for joining in several organizations and thus cannot going abroad to bear Indonesia in international circumstance cannot receive any kind of appreciation? I thought there is a false logic here.
If this kind of consideration is always applied, then there will be no room absolutely for appreciation upon people who are misfortune in financial condition even though it is often happened that the effort that is made by this kind of people is greater than the fortune one. But, their effort is never appreciated just because it is not an external effort.
It is always questionable then for granting “the fortune” people just because their advantageous circumstances. Nobody can choose in what kind of family that they will be born and poor upon the misfortune since they cannot receive any appreciation if this kind of criteria is always applied.
Hence, in my consideration, it is imperative for people to just not appreciate other just because they can go abroad. Moreover, it is done not by their truly effort. I do not blame if the appreciation that is given has a valid criterion and will be a contingent for granting it upon them who can go abroad. But, taking for granted assumption that people who can go abroad are better than the rest is absolutely a false one.
There are many people who have given their best effort so they truly deserve for the appreciation. Taking as an example: I have one friend who can go abroad not because she has much money for paying accommodation and visa. She loves to dance and this activity that actually has delivered her unto some countries. I think that actually this kind of people that should be fully appreciated. It is only by her talent then she can go abroad for dancing. In this respect that I will say that people are really deserve to be appreciated.
