How Appreciation Works

Such very long and a mystery journey that create thousand stories that we never thought before. Many condition has described, sad and happy always be a part of this journey that we passed. Like a bird, has no feeling like burden when they are dancing through the cloud. They has their own way reaching what they want as their life’s goals. To be different doesn’t always look so bad, indeed it’s a power. I learn then. Normally as a human, exploring every part in this world give an urge for us to see the meaning and to proving the hope there.

Our surround gives very huge influence in escaping our life, starts in creating daily habits. Dare to go out from our zone and entering in new environment really change my paradigm in seeing hope and dreams. Remember for the most, when I was in my own zone and felt my vacant emotion, having the same life cycle, met with same people, and going to the same place. Have no challenges and seems so flat. Hard to make a move, due to feeling different. Full of anxiety of something that have not understood yet. Yet, it’s awkward moments when I see and listen to some people surround in once they said “I want to grow up and make a shine for my future life” it’s a fuel, I start questioning my self. 

Here, I faced two decisions. Stay or go. Set the mission up, start from looking for the people that I should surround with. I keep looking then. Surely, GMB is the answer! I known that weakness but being participant in GMB Leadership Homestay Program Australia make me more confident about myself. During program gives me something worth to learn, that’s appreciate. Understanding meaning of appreciation from my family and all people I have met here. Sam’ Family I have learned how to be appreciate and support our family. If their children make mistake, then they don’t give them punishment but they appreciated after that explain their mistake which children can be understand. In my host-family also give me appreciated every single day if I was tell them about my activity during that day, even I told them bad moment. Surely, im lucky have them as my hostfamily, have loved in every time and they also ask my conditions when I come back home or night before going to sleep. That is small thing but changing a lot.

Yap, I know how to appreciate not only appreciate others also my self. As you know appreciated make people more confident to do something. First, I’m not confident enough to be a candle compare with enormous light. But, as we go on I realize that it’s not about how big your self as a candle indeed it’s about how you could gives the light of your candle for surround.


​Penulis: Windiyani, GMB 2014