On Punishment
One day during our training session, a choir member kindly brought us Jagung bakwan (corn cake) as snack for our break. My wife whispered to me: “Don’t take.”
At home she told me It was as tough as leather. What our aged members endured eating this. Aal went outside to “finish” hers, Nono had it as a dog with a big lump of meat, stopping his mouth, biting it with his false teeth. Jeanie said: “Thank you, it’s very nice” while slowly nibbling it. Our benefactor, ate herself and as she doesn’t enjoy it, swallowed as fast as she could. There was no one who wasn’t free from this torture. And imagine, she said that she had saved a part for tomorrow and planned to gladden some thirty of her choir members of over 60 years old with this.
In the car, my wife said to our son who was driving us home,
“There’s a lot that’s left over, take it home for your family”.
“Why did you say so in the car?” I asked.
“Yes sure, what should I do with it myself?”
And we laughed imagining him, his wife, his daughter, their curses and faces and down to the nurse of their toddler, then further down to empok, the cook and she after tasting it making faces, promptly throws it in the garbage bin as she had no one more below her, to vent her anger, disappointment. How wise! Oh, what fun!
Suppose you want to punish someone here in Indonesia, you can do this in a similar way. Just bless them, surprise them with for instance a cartload of some 50 Durians, one of the favorite fruits here. They would eat as much as they can and for a long time as is possible, as they haven’t the heart to throw it away or hurt the benefactor as being ungrateful when they pass it on to others. They can’t say “no”, nor reject. Then they worry about choosing someone lucky to equally bless them with a lot of overripe, half spoiled Durians left.
They will say: “It’s very nice, thank you a lot, very kind of you” for a punishment.
So you should have the courage to say “no” to refuse, to reject and the punishment for bad baked “Bakwan”, of too many “Durians” will be returned to the “benefactor” himself.
June 2008
One day during our training session, a choir member kindly brought us Jagung bakwan (corn cake) as snack for our break. My wife whispered to me: “Don’t take.”
At home she told me It was as tough as leather. What our aged members endured eating this. Aal went outside to “finish” hers, Nono had it as a dog with a big lump of meat, stopping his mouth, biting it with his false teeth. Jeanie said: “Thank you, it’s very nice” while slowly nibbling it. Our benefactor, ate herself and as she doesn’t enjoy it, swallowed as fast as she could. There was no one who wasn’t free from this torture. And imagine, she said that she had saved a part for tomorrow and planned to gladden some thirty of her choir members of over 60 years old with this.
In the car, my wife said to our son who was driving us home,
“There’s a lot that’s left over, take it home for your family”.
“Why did you say so in the car?” I asked.
“Yes sure, what should I do with it myself?”
And we laughed imagining him, his wife, his daughter, their curses and faces and down to the nurse of their toddler, then further down to empok, the cook and she after tasting it making faces, promptly throws it in the garbage bin as she had no one more below her, to vent her anger, disappointment. How wise! Oh, what fun!
Suppose you want to punish someone here in Indonesia, you can do this in a similar way. Just bless them, surprise them with for instance a cartload of some 50 Durians, one of the favorite fruits here. They would eat as much as they can and for a long time as is possible, as they haven’t the heart to throw it away or hurt the benefactor as being ungrateful when they pass it on to others. They can’t say “no”, nor reject. Then they worry about choosing someone lucky to equally bless them with a lot of overripe, half spoiled Durians left.
They will say: “It’s very nice, thank you a lot, very kind of you” for a punishment.
So you should have the courage to say “no” to refuse, to reject and the punishment for bad baked “Bakwan”, of too many “Durians” will be returned to the “benefactor” himself.
June 2008
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