I owe who I am to the people whom I've met

I always appreciate everyone I’ve met, be it my friends, colleagues, exes, strangers who shared stories with me on the train, or even tukang parkir Bank BCA Kayutangan.

One introduced me to songs by The 1975 which accompanied me through many hard times. Another shared quirky pickup lines that never failed to make me laugh every time I tried to use them. And some others, perhaps unknowingly, taught me the art of patience through silence, through disagreement, through the simple act of waiting.

None of them may have known they were shaping me. But they actually did, and without them I wouldn’t be the person who I am today.