2026 seems to be the most turbulent year that one experience these days for a lot of reasons. We had covid 6 years ago and that alone feels crushing when you think about.
What have we achieved these past 6 years?
I wonder if some of us still feels like we're stuck in Covid times. Maybe some of us has moved past it and now a changed person. But for some reason, politics, the global economy, everything is in shambles. The only good thing that we perhaps experience is emerging AI that now sounds like a threat itself. But what's next?
As an older Gen Z, I was born in times of crisis and grew up in between major changes in the world. And life for many of us felt like one crisis after another. In 1997 to 1998, we've seen Asia Financial Crisis and in Indonesia itself, it was the year that redefined the country for the past 29 years.
Then we grew up in transition from computer to all things portable, the education system that keeps changing, and the policies that keeps re-adjusting every 4 years term. Soon, we experience covid, another global crisis that redefined our mid 20's and now, in our late 20's as a late Gen Z, we see political turmoil everywhere and the uncertainty of this world.
The only difference this time is that, I am old enough to see the pattern and weave through it all. At least I get the rough idea who'll be rich after the crisis, how to survive it, and how to stay sane when things get bad as well as planning an exit strategy.
If these past 6 years you're fortunate enough to save up, this is the time to spend on property as many people are selling their property and business even under the current market price if they desperately need money. This is such a land grab opportunity.
If you don't have money, this is time to lower the lifestyle. This is time to build and be careful with every resources we have, whether energy, time or money. Be really good at saying no. This was my mistake after 2020 that I was in a period of working hard but then I have no understanding that it's all a cycle so I justify every spending I had under the pretense of " I want to make my family happy" and "escape the family". But rather creating an actual exit strategy, I sink deeper into something that you see now.
When you genuinely understand your life cycle, no matter how bad it gets for you, you'll come to an understanding that each of us has a cycle and so does the world around us. While the goal is not to eliminate all the cycles, the older I get, the more I realized, we're part of these cycles and through each of these, we need to learn something that help us stands on more solid grounds next time the crisis comes.
Maybe this is just natural as you get older, you start to notice these things. But it's good to have self-awareness. These days we have social media that bombard us with seemingly "instant" or overnight success. We just don't realize, their life has gone through cycle too. Even those who born with silver spoon goes through cycle, the difference is their baseline and problems.
And once you remove those algorithmic distraction, the clearer it gets for you to see the bigger picture of yourself and even those around you that you know well. Then act according even when it feels like the world is burning to the ground.
๐๐ฆ๐ฎ๐บ (๐ฐ๐ณ ๐๐ข๐ค) ๐ช๐ด ๐ข ๐ผ๐๐พ๐บ๐๐๐๐พ ๐๐พ๐๐พ๐๐บ๐
๐๐๐ & ๐ค๐ฐ๐ง๐ง๐ฆ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ช๐ด๐ด๐ฆ๐ถ๐ณ, ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฃ๐ช๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ต ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ง๐ช๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ด ๐ฃ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ต๐ธ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ญ๐ช๐ต๐ถ๐ฅ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ค๐ช๐ข๐ญ ๐ด๐ฑ๐ข๐ณ๐ฌ. ๐๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฐ๐จ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ง๐ญ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ด ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ธ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ญ๐ถ๐ด๐ต, ๐ค๐ถ๐ณ๐ช๐ฐ๐ด๐ช๐ต๐บ, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฑ๐ข๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐จ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ต๐ฉ. ๐ ๐ฐ๐ถโ๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ง๐ต๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ง๐ช๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ต๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ข๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฌ๐ด, ๐ต๐ฆ๐ค๐ฉ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฐ๐จ๐บ, ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ฑ ๐ค๐ถ๐ญ๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ, ๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ๐ญ, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ช๐ญ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฉ๐บ; ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ค๐ช๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฆโ๐ด ๐ง๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ค๐ถ๐ฑ๐ด ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฑ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ง๐ง๐ฆ๐ฆ. ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ด ๐ด๐ธ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ, ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฆ๐น๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ธ ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ๐ด. ๐๐ฐ๐ญ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐๐ช๐ท๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐จ๐ณ๐ข๐ฃ ๐ข ๐ค๐ถ๐ฑ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ค๐ฐ๐ง๐ง๐ฆ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ช๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ข๐ด. |