the right or wrong of it

who decides what's right? or wrong?
in some company, what's right or wrong is defined by an ethics committee. they would then issue the 'code of conduct', a set of behaviour that is mandatory for employees to follow. then that code of conduct would be used as based for all the policies, procedures, etc that the company is making.

who controls the ethic committee? someone higher. but who's higher than the ethic committee?
alas, they are human, too. bound to make mistakes. how do you become part of something that is 'pure and correct'? you cannot.

so who decides what's right or wrong?
people whose conciousness are expected to be pure, whose moral bearing are pointing to the right direction. people who look at history, look at current affairs, and look at what might be happening in the future, and try to make sense of it all, and define what's proper and not.

moral values are something that are accepted and agreed upon by the general public. that's why different groups have different values. and that's why different eras have different ideas, too. how do you define the universal values to guide all the general public out there?

some ideas are universal: integrity, honesty, compassion to others, respect to other beings, respect to people set of beliefs. those are what i can remember at this moment.

then again, different groups still have different interpretation of how those words are define. how compassion is compassionate enough? how much respect is respect enough? how much freedom is freedom enough?

world is never can be generalized into the black or white of it, not the right or wrong of it. there's always something in between, and other colors too.

in my own person, my idea is: your freedom is yours; you are free to do whatever it is you want to do and be whatever it is you want to become - as long as your freedom does not rob others of theirs and that what you do does not harm you/others, and certainly not breaking the law.

the law. the right or wrong of it, created by flawed human.

back to square one!

the girl who plays slenthem and kicks butts

she's kinda tomboy: liking jeans and shirts more than girly attire; making friends with lots of boys and some girls, too. her sport is taekwondo, and she just won her gold medal yesterday, and a trophy for 'best pre-junior female athlete'.

before yesterday, about a month ago, and a month prior to that day, she was so keen on rehearsing for the karawitan concert, where she played the 'slenthem'. slenthem is a kind of 'bass' instrument in the gamelan orchestra. slenthem is played by one player only in the whole orchestra, and she reigned.

she's my girl. the girl who loves both the soothing and almost meditating 'hammering' of gamelan instruments, and the fiercess of kicking your oponent's arse in a tournament. she is both part of a harmony, and a single fighter.

mom is so happy for you.