According to people who are now in their 40s or 30s, so-called modern youngster attitude is becoming ruder and less mannered. Is it the failure of modern age, as media and internet becoming more and more open and anyone can exploit anything anywhere? Every child’s life starts from home, this is where a conscience to control one-self can actually be nurtured to avoid growing as a person who only brings troublesome to the society. Parents must work together to build their child’s vision. This is not an easy task, as there will be moments when father and mother’s love no longer as warm as newly wed couple.
Even though a couple is being together and living under the
same roof, there are many men and women around us who involves in toxic and
unhealthy relationship. It is not domestic violence that pushes the
relationship to unhealthy direction. In most cases, simple and not-so-important
matters are the triggers. One of them is the same vision and mission to build a
life both sides want.
The resemblance goes the same for finding a partner country
to work together in all kind of fields. Years before, the foundation of
starting joint partnership was historical, ideological, and cultural roots
similarities, as well as the misfortune of being colonized countries. These
backgrounds seem irrelevant when forced to sustain today, as if we choose a
partner by judging his/her family background. Indeed, family holds a major role
when it comes to develop one’s (a country’s) characters, but the person holds
the very role to find and lead oneself to a better direction, to something
which has not been achieved yet by his/her family and ancestors. There are many
things to learn from the past, including those of our potential mate. It is
more appealing to know how the past has created them to be better than before,
because everyone needs to know everything about the other person before they
take up the relationship to any serious degree.
Perfect Doesn’t Make
Happiness
It is very common if some women are more interested to men
with established circumstance, having a steady job, and wealthy. It is
understandable why they make such preference, and it’s not because they are
materialistic. After women get married and have children, it is their
responsibility to make sure that their children will grow as they should be and
get their nutrition needs fulfilled. Anyhow, we know that nutritious food are
not cheap. So, does it mean wealth bring happiness to all families?
There are 193 countries listed as United Nations members,
211 countries registered in Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), and 106
countries members of International Olympic Committee (IOC). There are developed
countries, developing countries, not-so-wealth countries, and there are also
endless-conflict countries among them. All of them exist until this present day
as each of them has experienced their own historical journey that shape their
own characters, views, policies, and current achievements.
There is sugar, (so) there are ants. It is very unlikely
that no countries will get attracted to other countries’ success, power, and
wealth. It is believed that whom we interact with has major role shaping our
ways of thinking and how we will act in every situations. If ones have a close
relation with successful people, there is a chance that such success will get
them infected. Just as finding a partner for life, we should know how our
partnering country candidate would act during hardships. The harder the
situation is, the more well-established one’s mentality will be, since greater
challenges are waiting in the future.
Very few people could foresee that COVID-19 outbreak would
turn into a global disaster. The real impact is not only the loss of human
life, but also economic impact. A number of economic activities stalled as
countries are very worried contracting the virus when exchanging goods with
others or carrying out production activities, so many businesses were under
threat of bankruptcy.
The situation has actually been forecasted since the death
toll began to arise in Wuhan, China since January, which forced the country
stopping production activities and implementing lockdowns. However, the
superpower USA then seemed to take advantage of the moment to promote an anti-China
campaign by promoting a policy to ban imported products as well as tourist
visits from China through massive US media coverage that kept updating the data
on number of deaths every day.
As the first COVID-19 case found in the US last January,
President Donald Trump was busy sending threats to Iran. When some US’
companies began entering difficult time due to Chinese tourists ban, Trump
insisted that he did not expect any government officials to
say or do anything about COVID-19. According to his view, the stock market
might collapse and the plague will distance his opportunity to be re-elected in
the upcoming US presidential election.
What Mr. Trump was worried about eventually happens. During the early weeks of COVID-19 spread in
Europe and America, the US stock market crashed. After social distancing (and lockdowns) policies
began to be implemented globally, the number of unemployment claims in the US
increased. Trump administration released an economic stimulus package as a
solution to face the upcoming crisis threat, with a quite large of amount
compared to any country in the world, namely around 2 trillion dollars.
However, don’t get envious too soon to notice the stimulus
funds amount that US government ready to provide. It is not wrong to be curious
about where such funds come from, or at least how they process the funds. And
the answer is … it is debts, no wonder US Government debt is among the highest
in the world. Indeed, there are certain situations where debt is the only
solution, nevertheless, debt must be paid. As we reflect on the experience of
online loan service applicants not so long ago, anyone can lose their minds if
they have no other way to pay their debts. What will a country do if they are
in this position?
A part or apart
What is the best partner like? The answer for this question
will be very different for each person, and it’s normal. Everyone wants to have
a partner because they want to be loved, want to have somebody to lean on, and
obviously, they want to be happy. We need to remember that nothing lasts
forever in this world, happiness and sadness are an eternal couple and they can’t
live without each other.
Fortunately, in terms of state order, any country is free to
search for and free to cooperate with partner countries as much as they want
to. Ideally, the more partner countries the better, as there will be more and
more diverse markets for our products. Our views and perceptions will also be
more open to the various natures and characteristics of our partner countries
which are no doubt different one another. This should have been not a
complicated matter, isn’t the world made up of different nations and customs?
During recent years, the world situation (and in the
country, sometimes) has developed in a way contrary to the openness for
diversity and differences we have held and believed all along. We have been
seeing unilateralism, racism, and trade war out there. Meanwhile, in 2017 the
US enacted Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act which
legalized any US President’s decisions toward countries considered as enemies,
as well as other countries cooperating with such US enemy states.
Facing the increasingly challenges each day, we should
realize that competition also occurs between the world’s great powers. There is
a positive side of such competition and rivalry, as each party will be
motivated to improve their abilities in all fields, so that they can be the
winners. Situation that has evolved so far is a party that has been a long
defending champion wants to keep its position by all means, including to create
a gap between countries. They announce who their enemies are, and other
countries should also consider them enemies. If not, they will impose sanctions
because they dare to throw down the gauntlet.
Citizens of some developing countries themselves have
realized that the interference of inferiority complex might be an obstacle to
progress, especially if they have to deal with possibility of sanctions. On the
other hand, many of us need the outside world to market domestic products and
increase income. So where does this foot have to go, to endure a toxic
relationship or to find a new partner?
What is clear, the storm will (and must) pass. We can fight
independently and partner with other countries to accelerate the storm passage.
Even in times of COVID-19 crisis today, we can clearly see the real face of all
countries in the world. This is the best time to choose which potential
countries can see our potential and are willing to help us to develop it, based
on the principle of international cooperation that are mutually beneficial,
respectful, supportive, and avoid orchestrating reasons to impose sanctions.
(swastantika)
