Myself and My Future Aspiration

            When asked, who are you? Everyone has their own answer. As for me, I will say I am a girl who loves music very much. When I was in elementary school, I wanted to be a doctor, but also a pianist. Why did I want to be a doctor? It was because I had a serious illness when I was 4 years old. I had typhus and there was liquid in my pericardium. I saw how the doctor helped me and gave me some medicine that gave me a ‘moon face’ (a medical term).The doctor was also very nice. She was very friendly and reassured me so that I would not be afraid. This experience inspired me. For this reason I want to help others by becoming a doctor. And why did I want to be a pianist? Both of them are so different. I wanted to be a pianist because I love playing piano since I was in kindergarten. Playing the piano makes me feel calm and I have a connection with my piano as if I can ‘talk’ to it.

Time flies so fast, I was in junior high school. There was also change in my mind, especially about my dreams. I started to be interested in business, this was because my parents and my extended family are businessmen and businesswomen. I saw how they gave others the opportunity to work. It is good because the rate of unemployment in Indonesia amounts to 7.24 million people in August 2012. And the climax of unemployment and poverty is criminality. Criminality will make the country paralyzed in every aspect, economically, socially, politically, culturally, etc.

I am currently studying in a public high school in Denpasar, Bali. I have a new idea. I want to be a doctor and I want to build a hospital. Because I love playing piano, I want to specialize in music therapy. It has shown its effectiveness in treating symptoms of many disorders, including Amnesia, Alzheimer, Parkinson’s disease, etc. I think Indonesia should develop music therapy because there are many functions of music therapy besides curing symptoms of some disorders, for example, it can help improve our intelligence. The effect of music therapy which can improve our intelligence is called ‘Mozart effect’. Based on scientific research by Franches Rauscher et al from University of California, after 36 students listened to Sonata K.448  by Mozart for 10 minutes, they scored 8 to 9 higher on the spatial IQ subtest Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales than after they listened to relaxation instructions or do not listen anything at all. This activity lasts only 10 to 15 minutes. Besides that, it can also improve our memory. This can happen because the part of the brain that processes music is located adjacent to the memory. So when a person trains the brain with music therapy, he is also automatically training his memory.

My hospital in the future will be different from other hospitals. I want to build an international hospital. So other countries can admit the existence of the hospital. I wish it can be the first international hospital with free service for paupers. Then other countries can adopt the same model and foreigners can trust the hospital too. The hospital will be a hospital with the best quality and serves its patients with love. The profit will be obtained from the pharmacy and other facilities. I will also find donors who want to help fund the special free service for paupers provided by my hospital. I want to make people realize that there are still many people who needs our help. I am inspired by Mother Teresa. She cared for paupers before caring for herself. She cared all for paupers with great love. She once said “Work without love is slavery.”

As Aristotle said “Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god.” We need one another. So, to build the hospital I will need a pharmacist, a psychologist, nurses, internists, pediatricians, etc. The hospital cannot run without them. But I have to be able to manage it. I have to make all staffs feel comfortable and they must be loyal to their duty. I also have to ask them to serve the patients with great love and care. So, the patients will feel comfortable and loved by the people who want to sincerely help them.