Talking about the new normal, I remember the days when I and my kids had just arrived in Jakarta.
The days when I and kids had to do an adaptation to our own homeland, with different circumstances.
The days when I and kids had to transform our good habit just to please our environment...
At the airport, my little girl at her 3 years old, asked me where to put her candy trash that we couldn't find the trash bin everywhere. Someone told her to just throw it. However, she put it in her pocket, brought it home and put it right into the garbage bin.
At kindergarten school of my little boy at his 4.5 years old, took his own meal of my homemade.
All meal were wrapped cleanly in each part of the 'bento case', with proportional main course, fruit, vegetable, and a small pack of milk. Some friends were so jealous at him since their mothers had never made such a cute and complete meal for them.
In elementary school of my second boy at his 7.5 years old, brought his own meal, a bottle of water, a small pack of tissue and a small bottle of hand sanitiser. Once, he used a face masker for he was having a cold. Some friends were teasing at him for being such 'an odd kid'. Though, he just ignored them and kept on continuing what he believed.
In the same school, my first boy at his 10.5 years old, brought the same things with his little brother.
All meal were wrapped cleanly and no one could join his drinking. One bottle for one person.
Some friends said that they were the two odd brothers. He said once, "This is the way I and brother learnt from the developed country where you will somehow understand how good it is."
Until these days, the days when all of us have to face a shocked virus that change our habit, change our way of life, change our way of thinking.
It is okay to bring hand sanitiser everywhere you go.
It is alright to use face masker especially when you got cough and cold.
It is fine to bring a pack of tissue and use it when you have to sneeze or other things.
Yes, it is good to have our personal belongings and keep it that way.
Those things are for our own good, for our own health, for our own safe...
Then, you are ready for the new normal...
