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.
