after deep observations i take few promises to my self not to drink alcohol no matter what is the benefit i could get by drinking it. than i realized it will be hard for me to take sales alike job. after drinking one's mind changed the shine in the eyes also changed. nowadays i must admit alcohol is a normal drink for society and i don't look down at people that drink it. just that by judging from my father i afraid i would do the same to my family when i have one.
there is too little benefit of drinking from my perspective because i afraid i would lost control and in the end i became like my father. there is too many bad experiences i saw by my own eyes or i could say i see it all.
one day my cousin ( he is like my own older brother, he came frequently to my house after i came back from hospital because he knew that i must be feeling lonely in my blindness. i really thank him of doing it.) came to my house he ask me to followed him to go to Starbucks to meet his friends since there is no one at home so i went with him. all i see is blur, light and other things it feel a bit weird because Jakarta got a lot of cars and traffic jam so all light i see is like a big ball because of the light flare.
we came to the cafe and 2 of his friend is there so my cousin introduce me to them and we sat down after ordering a nice green tea latte. at the moment i sat and his friend started to talk i felt that one of them is a gay from the way he talk to the other friend. but i thought maybe it's his style of talking so i keep quite. but in the end he is really a gay since from the conversation that he meet a guy at airplane and end up dating. but than after that conversation he directly talk about Buddhism with my cousin. he talk about his experience when he do meditation and what he learned when he go to one of the temple in Thailand. than i felt amazed knowing that Buddhism can accept gay believers and even don't discriminate them on their practice not like other religion they even cursed on gay by saying they don't accept they gender and other reason. since for me it might not appropriate for a human to judge other people on whether or not they are eligible to communicate to generally said "GOD". don't the religion leader ever think even a bit on cased that they might be feel being trapped on wrong gender body ? how do you feel when suddenly you wake up on other body which is diff gender? but than i realized it might be because few other religion don't believe in reincarnation because if i died now and reincarnate in girls body but still with my current thought and memory won't i became a guy trapped on girls body ?
after long conversation between my cousin and his friends than we went back to home. on the way my mind keep on thinking about Buddhism. but something strike my mind when i see one of the street light and i try to focus my eye on it, i suddenly can make the object focus just like when we use camera at first it will be blur but when we slowly rotate the focus control we can get a focus picture. but strangely i need to focus for my right eye and left eye at a different time so after i can see clearly using my right eye than i focus using my left eye. the whole trip till my home i keep talking to my cousin about other things while trying to refocus my eyes.
that night i really can't sleep because although i now I'm chanting but my whole life i learned Christianity in the end i said to my self there will be only one truth and I'll pray the whole night for the answer and i believe only the truth answer will come. than the whole night i keep on praying asking whether what i do now is correct, if i became Buddhism that time is it go against my belief, is this Buddhism for me? until i feel asleep