Who am I?

Daffa Arrofi
3 min readNov 8, 2020

In the middle of the galaxy, as human beings, we are still thinking about who are we? so do I. I am still questioning myself either personality or simply why I should be born.

Let me introduce me as an individual, I am just a corporate slave in that striving to pursue the-becoming-realistic-dream since a lot of them disappear nowhere. When I was in elementary school, as well as the common dream of major children the same age, I had a dream to be a doctor someday because my parents asked me to do so. However, by the time it was changing when I faced every difficulty in this mundane life, especially during the adolescence period.

In senior high school, I was one of the dumb students that my school ever had. I couldn’t get a good score for most subjects specifically physics and math, so it made me anxious about thinking in the next-near-future-life. As you may know, that to be a doctor, so you have to have outstanding scores, and I didn’t. Therefore, I had to think of another dream that probably made me become a rich person, so I wanted to work in the energy sector. One of my friends suggested me to enroll petroleum or mining engineering and I did it in one of my dream university. However, because of my dumbness in answering the SBMPTN Test (a kind of selection test to get into the university in Indonesia), I was failed to get it. Totally that was one of the desperate moments that I have ever had. It might be hard for accept because of my dumbness even though I had strived my best. Although I was failed, I had to try again in another test that still opened back then, so at least people didn’t call me a sad boy. I enrolled in another lower-rank-university in a different major, I chose geological engineering. In the end, I made it and I had my learning activity there.

University life though me so many things, not only about the courses given but also the way to deal with life problems. I started to think again that becoming a young adult would be harder rather than the time I was thinking, so I tried to have a lower life expectancy. Yes! My new paradigm helped me to face the problem after I graduated from university. Because I didn’t expect too much so when it was hard to get the job, I was not hurt so much. After several months of down-up-life for getting a job, I got the job in a start-up education sector company and I started my career being a physics teacher there, the subject that I was very dumb during my high school.

Becoming a teacher means you have to educate students and I hope that I share the right knowledge with them. As teachers, we just know earlier than students and it doesn’t guarantee that we are smarter than them. Becoming a teacher also teaches me something important, as a human being, we have to share with others either it is our knowledge or money (if you have more), so maybe the reason why we live together in this galaxy because we should try to share to each other (?).

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