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Dilemma

Filed under: My daily life — inifanny at 2:10 pm on Monday, September 19, 2005

I’m in a dilemma.

Well, yeah, this is not the first time. My life is just so full of drama, some people nominated me to be the drama queen of the year.

Anyhoo, because this is my blog, I’m entitled to have all kinds of dilemmas or dramas as often as i want to… Right ? right…

This is the case : I can’t really decide what I want in my life at the moment.

I mean, if you asked me two years ago, i would have simply told you that i wanted carrier above anything. At least for the next 5 years…

But now, of course things have changed. I have a family now. My path of life shifted two years ago when i decided to let go of my carrier, and marry the man of my life. Everybody was suprised (can’t blame them, i was shocked as hell !), but as always, i did what i wanted to do.

And now, here I am, never knew that things can be so darn complicated. There is a piece of me who still wants to achieve something, but some part of me tells me to wait. I’m confused whether I have to start looking for a new job or go back to school, or just simply wait until my darling little angel Alyssa is old enough to be left alone.

If I wait, then it will be more difficult to go back to the professional life, but if I do it now, then I might lose Alyssa’s childhood, and there’s no getting back to it…

Beside, honestly and surprisingly, sometimes I do think that I really can enjoy the role of motherhood…

So the question is, do I really want a carrier or is it simply just my ego ?
But then again, there’s nothing wrong about having an ego, is it ?



3 Comments »

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   ike

September 20, 2005 @ 12:42 am

Fance sayang,..
sometimes i feel that we have soo many things in common that it confused me my self!!!..
gue ngertiiiiiiiiiiiiiii bgt say…bener!!!!….
then again, the choice is within you ,..however, sometimes ..u need to get wet first to know that the water is cold!!!!!..:)…abis itu udah nggak penasaran lagi, dehh ……

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   Mona

September 23, 2005 @ 5:33 am

been there done that fan. satu dua taon lalu gue dalam posisi persis seperti lo sekarang. dilema! di satu sisi anak, di sisi lain longing for self-achievement. never realized before that it could be that important. sempet gue susah tidur en cuma satu hal di kepala gue ‘gini aja neh akhir dari sekolah gue yang bertaon2 itu?’.

saran gue fan, keep on fighting and follow your heart. there was time when i was denying my self….saying to myself ‘career can wait, but once my son’s childhood is over, i can never have it back!’. just to soothe myself for something i couldn’t reach. as you know, fighting for a job here, for us as a foreigner (not to mention people from developing countries), is damn difficult. but then i tried to be honest again with myself….i want and i need my own life! while waiting for the opportunity to get back to the professional life, i equipped myself with everything i might need, such as language courses and some other free courses in vdab.

then, all of a suddent that opportunity came. i had to grasp it. di sini muncul lagi dilema itu…anak or karir??? one big question, huh? thanks god…di sini mereka punya sistem daycare yang cukup reliable. kita dapet tempat penitipan yang ideal, dari sisi finansial dan lokasi. so….here i am again, in the world i have missed for some years. trying to catch up the 5 years i was off!

so, no worry girl….where there is a will, there is a way. go and follow your heart!

ini tipikal pergumulan banyak temen2 di sini. drop me a message kalo mo ngobrol lebih jauh….

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   Fanny

September 29, 2005 @ 3:50 am

Thanks for the comments girlz…
AND Mona, i’m glad to hear that you could still catch up the ‘lost 5 years’ of your life! pasti gak gampang….

Ike… kange gue ama lu!

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