AMSA-Indonesia Again, After Some Old but Broader Drama

Long short, after almost one year, I finally have been involved again in AMSA-Indonesia. Not as Delegate, not as any committee, not as any officer, but as a...well, uhm, I don't even know how to put it. There were some dramas, I was the only one who knew and understood the complete story, the reason why one thing happened and then caused other things, and there I've been like an agent who gathered all information and then distributed it to the authority who needed to decide solutions.

It doesn't stop there. There was this junior, a junior from highschool and also in AMSA (but different university) who asked me to give him advices and knowledge about AMSA-Indonesia because he was a Regional Chairperson Candidate (he lost though). It was like almost every night I spent to have skype chat with him, to teach him a lot of things and to help him answering questions in mailing-list campaign.

When We Are Being Honest

Have you ever tried being profoundly honest to everyone including yourself? Have you ever felt that you are simply so blunt or people tell you so? Or perhaps are you kind of person who is honest and blunt?

Yes, we are taught to be honest, to people and to ourselves. Yes, we can find it in every religious and moral teaching that honesty is important. But then, do we also realize that sometimes, or most of times, people hate honesty? do we realize that we ourselves also fear being honest?

It is when you are within a community, or within an organisation, or within your very own friendship that