Arsip untuk Juli 25th, 2008

Love and Egalitarianism

Juli 25, 2008

Last week, I got flowers from someone that I had never expected to. Twice! Despite I never fond of flowers, this romantic-should-be-flower became kind of joke among my Kos friends. There were very long long out load laughing. Again, twice! This flowers sender was no other than used-to-be our landlord driver. He was such a careless driver that my landlord fired him after one-month work like two years ago. Our landlord called him a careless, crude, unbelievable driver he ever had in his life.

My Kos friends comments were exactly like my questions, why me, why now, after years? Apparently, he was our neighbor that we never realized and he was the one who teased me impolitely almost every night lately across our boarding house. One of the girls said, he chose me simply because my life style and my gesture seem very modest and reachable for him. Oh geez.

It seems the chit chatting shifted to the class of economy. We don’t need the Hindu caste system to feel, to see the caste created smoothly by the capitalism. The question is what’s wrong if he is a driver and a careless-uneducated-lack of wealth buddy? The girls accused me for not being egalitarian for turning down the dating offer. Baca entri selengkapnya »