Sunday, February 28, 2016

I am here to serve you.

Dear medical friends,
You will be a doctor.
I will be a doctor.
Soon,
sooner than we expect.
Time flies;
they will no longer call you by name.
You will be granted a calling of grace
A 'healer'.
"Hello doc."

Have we stopped to think
about what a 'healer' really means?
Do we know already
what a real healer does?

You may have realized
that to speak matter-of-factly,
we dedicate our service fully
not to the faith we believe in.

We give all our life's worth
to humanity,
to the well-being and peace of people
to recover souls and families
to heal the broken in spirit.

Doctors love all people, don't we?
We have to.
Have I?
Have you?
But how can we love other people
if we don't firstly love and embrace our own souls?
We make ourselves our enemy.
A colleague enemy.
We tend to make another our enemies.

But hold,
Whom is actually worth calling enemy?
That friend
who speaks behind your back
isn't your enemy.
That bartender
who got your order wrong on purpose
also isn't your enemy.
That stranger on the road
who incessantly honks at your car
isn't, too.

We sometimes forget
that there is a spectrum
of paradigm in our society
and we are created in diversity -
and we also forget
that there is no 'enemy'
except
those killing human rights,
and anyone in support of violence,
and those in favor
of suffering of the people.
Those 'enemies' need healing.

And that is where we come to help.
That is what pulls us apart
from other paramedics and health providers.
That is our job
to recover and restore
both the body and the soul,
both the transgressors and the transgressed.

To black and white,
to rich and poor,
to the educated and illiterate,
to religious and not,
to sane and troubled,
to the peaceful and broken.

I am Jesus' daughter
and therefore,
I will do likewise,
and I shall serve like Him.
Therefore it is to all nations
I dedicate my service to.

I will serve Him
in spirit and in truth
just so people will see
not from what I've done,
but from what they feel;
Through the healing they've received
and the joy they encounter,
people can really comprehend "blessing"
and they'll experience the feeling of "being blessed",
that heaven is really up there
and heaven is down here on earth, too.

I am here to serve You.
I am here to serve you.

Will you join me, too?


-SK

Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Concretely Abstract

Regarding all of my thoughts;
I have always been trying
to rationalize the irrational,
just to find out
not all things can be explained
concretely concrete.
Sometimes they could be
concretely abstract.
Just like love -
the little feeling
the little abstract emotion
that makes you do all things,
accept all things,
cover all things,
and love
is the only abstract thing
that is most concrete in this world.

Wednesday, December 23, 2015

A Letter to You

My dearest friend,
Are you a brave one?
Only brave people can fall in love.
Love and trust are attributes of the strong.
Because once you've given your all
and watch them burn to the ground
It will take everything inside you
to let anyone truly hold you again
in any given future.
It is humane,
it is meant to shape you.
But what is it to life
if you don't love;
and what is love
if you don't take risks;
and what are taking risks for
if you don't trust?

You will love and trust eventually,
but a person can't stand long
with only one feet holding on.
And if you ever one day
let yourself fall truly in love again;
Do always remember:
love comes with strength,
and strength will give you bravery,
and bravery will grow trust.
And with only pure love in your heart,
everything will be
messy
mess
mes
me
m
me
men
mend
mende
mended.
It shall heal.
I will love and trust you.

Saturday, December 5, 2015

Surat Kepada Teman Muda

Surat Kepada Teman Muda

Hai teman muda,
Cepat sekali kutulis surat ini
Tak tahu untuk siapa harus kukirim
tapi kuharap kau mau melembarinya.

Hai teman muda,
Biarlah pikiran baikmu
menghasilkan perbuatan baik
dan buah tindak baikmu
membentuk karakter baik
sehingga membentuk hidupmu yang baik.

Tak tahukah engkau
Kaki dan sayap ia miliki?
Tetapi lama sayapnya tumbuh
Sabarlah menumbuhkannya, teman muda

Pupuklah dan temanilah
kebiasaan baikmu
biarkan ia tumbuh dan berkembang

Dan saat ia sudah siap
Ia akan terbang membawamu
ke tempat-tempat yang terindah,
yang tidak pernah kau duga
yang tak berani kau pikirkan
atau impikan sebelumnya.

Hai teman muda,
Pintar dan besar kau sekolah
Tapi jangan tertipu oleh pikiranmu
Sebab seberapa dalamkah pikiran manusia sendiri ia pahami?

Jangan bersandar pada pengertianmu sendiri.
Sebab pengertian muda menyesatkan
Dan hasrat jiwa yang muda sering membinasakan.

Hai teman muda,
Apa yang kau anggap berharga
saat beranjak dewasa
belum tentu benar ada nilainya.

Apa yang kau gagal pertahankan
dikala kuat ragamu
akan kau sesali kala tua nanti.

Apa yang kau tidak hargai
yang kau miliki hari ini
akan kau rindukan di kemudian hari.

Hai teman muda,
Jagalah kerajinanmu
Pertahankan kebaikanmu
Genggam erat kesetiaanmu

Hai teman muda,
janganlah jiwamu lekang oleh jaman 😊


-SK

Sunday, September 27, 2015

A message to ladies

Dearest women and girl friends, please take a little time to read this lengthy passage.

Dearest women and girl friends, you should not develop a habit of drinking alcohol, and should not date or marry an alcoholic man. Here is why.

It came to my attention that many of us develop a habit of drinking, and I just read heartbreaking facts about how alcoholism and violence have been known to be correlated for so long in our world, but is still getting so little concern and prevention.

With all due respect to men and boys, I am talking to raise awareness of alcohol abuse & women violence & women sexual assaults.

I am saying this also to support #HeForShe campaign by UN Women which will proceed till the end of 2015. September 20th, 2015 was its first year anniversary.

Every 25th of every month is #OrangeDay to stop women and girls' violence and sexual abuse.

With all due respect to men and boys, women are more often the victims of sexual or violence acts compared to men, especially those attributed to alcoholism. Here are the statistics:

1. In 2013, 35% of women worldwide have experienced physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence. The number goes up to 70% in developing countries (UN Global Statistics)

2. Of all women killed in 2012, almost half were killed by intimate partners (husband/boyfriend/SO)/family members. (Family Medicine Org)

3. Women violence actors are >50% their own HUSBANDS, and 70% of them were UNDER ALCOHOL INFLUENCE during violent act. (Family Medicine Org)

4. A YOUNG ADULT who starts drinking from their teenage years have a much more considerable risk of being an alcohol abuser/addict in their adulthood. Due to faster brain maturity of women compared to men, the same start of drinking age implicates higher rates of addiction to men than women. (TIME Magazine & Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research)

5. Women who drink / engage in risky drinking behavior have higher risk of experiencing violence. Women who are binge/heavy drinkers:
- 89% have reported experiencing interpersonal violence
- 70% have reported experiencing sexual assault.

6. In Indonesia, around 70% of all assaults experienced by women happens at HOME.

7. By province, here sits the order of housewives & women assault victim numbers:
1) Papua
2) Maluku
3) Yogyakarta
4) North Maluku
5) Bengkulu
6) Jambi
7) West Nusa Tenggara
8) Jakarta
9) Lampung
10) Banten
(UN National Outreach: The 2006 Survey of Violence against Women and Children in Indonesia)


I gather all these data because my heart breaks a little witnessing our world. I want to see our young generation restored.

There is only one goal from all these exhaustive campaign efforts: to protect and keep you safe.

There isn't a quick way to stop it, but to start from ourselves, and make the change from now.

"If not me (to stop), who? If not now (to begin), when?"

Dearest women and girl friends, you should not develop a habit of drinking alcohol, and should not date or marry an alcoholic man 😊

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Call me Sheilla. I am a 3rd year medical student at Tarumanagara University, Jakarta, Indonesia. Medicine, music, and language are my muse. Hopefully you find my posts interesting, and useful too.

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Sheilla Khonada

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