Sick, bedridden and helpless, months without a solution due to an extremely heavy economic pressure. This made me realize about…
Considering my family’s economic condition at that time, my future as an adult was probably no longer important, because there were so many other priorities, namely the future of my children.
Seeing my condition which, since getting sick, actually became an extra burden for my wife, I suddenly snapped out of it amidst the collapse of everything. I felt like I had just woken up from a long sleep. And upon waking up, I saw how terrifying the future of my children could be.
I am a migrant from Bali, living in Bogor since college, and after graduating, I worked in Jakarta for many years until I started a household and had children. Overwhelmed by the economic situation, I retreated to the outskirts of Jakarta and even the outskirts of Bogor, where unfortunately I fell deeper into adversity because I suddenly suffered from hepatitis, a spinal curvature, and a pinched nerve.
I, a teacher, who had even been forced to study desperately again just to get a better salary increase. Whether it was due to the burden of commuting Bogor-Jakarta-Bogor plus years of being packed inside the trains, plus the deeply buried mental burden, I ended up getting hit by those illnesses instead.
In a state of bed-rest for weeks and months, I felt terrified realizing how dark the future of my children and my family would be with the source of income I was receiving at that time, even though my wife was no less enthusiastic about looking for various financial solutions for our household.
The children’s future, without the right financial solution, was a very terrifying picture. I opened my heart and mind wide to solutions, but my limited knowledge in business made me very insensitive to seeing business opportunities.
I never gave up; I kept thinking about that solution. And that was eventually answered by this #sehatsejati community. Although in the beginning we really pushed ourselves to make the decision to become entrepreneurs, it was precisely this great and extraordinary action of ours that ultimately truly became the solution for my children’s future, our family’s future, and the future of my life—financially, health-wise, plus peace of mind.