Notes on contemplation

The infrastructure wasn’t really good, we passed some truck or car accidents, or sad but true, a lot of Indonesians who are not really responsible in driving, or another cases, the vehicle itself is not possible to be used anymore. The law is not really strict in this matter.

I remember, I was around 7 years old when one of our car tire got crashed. It doesn’t really a big deal if it’s happened at the day, but the scary thing was happened in the middle of the night and we’re in the middle of Sumatra jungle. GPS was not invented or being sold back then, also mobile phone wasn’t exist yet, even though we had GPS and mobile phone I’m not sure there would be signal in the jungle.

We didn’t even have any idea where we were exactly unless we’re in the middle of nowhere. No other cars or trucks passed by, the latter we knew, it’s not recommended to pass these jungle road after the sun set. There are a lot of case private cars/ truck driver hijacked by muggers.

There are many bad things would be happened if we’re unlucky such as, a group of mugger who ready to rob and kill us to vanish the witness, wild animal probably there, animal could smell the fresh human blood from far distance.

My dad and his friends asked me to lock the car when they were replacing the tire, they worked fast, tried to limit the sound and Thank God, finally we passed the intense moment, ……… I was still 7 years old at that time.

The latter, I realized I was quite young to face the adventure. My adventure soul starts growing since then.

SOME YEARS LATER......