Distance could make everything ordinary become precious...

5 ordinary things when I was in Indonesia and now it become precious for me:

1. Family

Before:

When I miss them, I could simply pick up my phone and call them. After that I'll rather cherished even I'm not meet them directly (because I think I can meet them anytime I want).

Now:

Even I could simply call them like before, there's still something different. The difference is the distance. I can hear their voice but I don't think I can meet them everytime I want because of the distance. Even they often call me...yet I still feel lonely.

2. Friends (In Indonesia of course)

Before:

I never think about the failed plan with them before because I just simply think, If we can't do that think together rite now we still have another day to do that plan.

Now:

I even can't make a plan to have fun together with them. I can't talk freely, I can't do every usual (or maybe silly) things that we did before, I also lost our lunch time. Again, it's because of the distance.

I do have lots of friends here, but the atmosphere is totally different. We aren't share the same perspective or language. Our humor is completely different. Sometime I can't understand them very well. We have a really different culture (sometime it's not bad though). Because of that, I can't really express the "real" I and it's kinda frustrating in some ways and time.

3. Foods

Before:

I really really like Japanese food, Chinese food, and Western food.

Now:

I miss Indonesian traditional foods very much. It's a pity for me because before I came here to Japan, I always thought that I won't miss that food because I ate it very rarely. But the reality now says something different.

4. Lunch and Dinner Time

Before:

I considered my lunch time everyday just like an ordinary thing that I'll repeat it every single day.

Now:

I miss the lunch time both with family and with friends. I usually talk lots of things while eating my lunch. Now, I always have a very silent lunch and dinner time.

5. My room

Before:

Someone always disturb me when I was in my room. Sometime I want to shout at them "Can you give me a privacy when I'm in my room!?"

Now:

My room consist only me myself and 4 walls plus 1 roof. Finally, I get my privacy but now it doesn't make me feel happy. I miss the sounds when someone knock on my door or shout my name from outside to call me.

Because of distance, now I feel a lil bit shocked. Even a small occasion that I always repeat every day before, now become a worth thing that I can't get by all means. It becomes precious… very precious…. The distance really can change every single things in my life.