On Being Positive

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As a new consultant, there are plenty of reasons to be insecure having most of your colleagues in your batch all gone on a big project and yourself left behind in central office hopping from one sharing session to another sharing session without any real work to do. Mind that for some reason, the big project was your dream project. The fact that you’ve lost your dream project is one, and the thought that maybe you’re not good enough for the project so maybe that’s why they don’t assign you is another. You’ve spent time contemplating and you’ve found 100 other reasons why you feel insecure and why you should feel insecure about this situation.

The thing is, somehow you refuse to accept the theory that you’re not capable in doing what your friends are about to be doing. And if you search hard enough, you’ll find better reasons why you should stop complaining and turn the situation into bigger opportunities for yourself, like:

Your friends are off busy doing lots of paperwork? Have no worries, you still have an abundant supply of additional online trainings that you think no one can ever finish in a year time waiting for you in just a click away. You know that knowledge requires not only theory, but experience, but hey, the order in which they appear won’t matter. Plus, you don’t work overtime which allows you to take care of things at home such as helping your dad making presentation and finishing a proposal of some important project of yours that has been abandoned for quite some time.

Your friends are now working in a beautiful office area located in the outskirt of Jakarta where the air is less polluted and the traffic is nicer (at least from your house)? Remember that your current office is at the heart of the city which makes it very easy to reunite with your other friends who work nearby at any time (except that you don’t often do that). Well, bottom line is, you commute to the office every morning, go straight to the 18^th floor, and when it is almost sunset, the sun goes down, it shines through the window right onto your face and it is still beautiful (maksudnya sinar mataharinya yang beautiful), just like you saw it almost three months ago when you first stepped into this office.

Your friends seem to have the chance to be assigned overseas, courtesy of their current project? You are happy for them if they really get the chance. Chances are in your future project you will also be visiting some places in Indonesia which hopefully allows you to learn about your country better or who knows, maybe next year you will be granted the scholarship you’ve always wanted. Anything can happen.

The male population in your friends’ project is better? Oh well, your friends are just lucky on that matter.

But that should NOT in any way make you feel unlucky. Cause you are not. What you see is what you get. You know your time will come.

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