(It is 2026, but let me document these days like it was 2006 all over again.)
Earlier this year, people jumped on a 10-year train back to 2016. Some of them were saying it was actually a conspiracy of AI training to see how 10 years can affect your face, but I couldn’t care less.
Personally, I will never forget what happened in 2016. 10 years ago everything changed drastically for me. I was laid off from my company. I started freelancing and took my business full-time. I took several corporate jobs after that year, but never for a long period of time. It was always short-term contracts.
To be honest, I’ve always wanted to work from home (even though at that time, I didn’t know how to do that) because somehow my commute to work always took up more than 6 hours a day. It was a long, long hour that I cannot get back. It was a true definition of “tua di jalan”.
At that time, I didn’t think it was political. I just thought people were selfish for not using public transportation and buying another vehicle on top another vehicle. What a fool I was.
10 years later, I saw what selfishness really meant. They showcase the whole thing on news and national television for us to see. Our (supposed to be) leaders and his cronies eat and keep eating our souls. Filling their endless stomach and desire. By doing that, they also took a lot of our time, our ages.
10 years of pain. 10 years of greed.
Actually, it wasn’t only 10 years. They have always been there, for all this time. Sucking our souls, forcing us to waste our time. Time that we cannot get back.