I am a true believer of the power of ideas… I know that once you set your mind to do something, nothing can get in your way and everything that tries to will get sucked up in your storm of ideas and end up opening your path.

Ideas.

My head have been spinning with them lately… one after the other. The thing about ideas is that they are like drugs. After finding that one idea that you come up with becomes a tangible product/event/action that people praise and follow, you can’t stop. You just need to find something new to see whether people will willingly catch the ball and start rolling it down the hill until it becomes one huge snowball that cannot be stopped.

Anita Roddick, founder of the Bodyshop, said: ‘those who are great a starting things are terrible at running them.’ I find this uncomfortably true… Once my ideas and projects receive overflowing support and attention, I itch to start something new… It’s such a terrible habit of mine.

Case in hand is this movement that I started in campus called Gerakan Kertas Bolak-balik. It was a movement that advocated for consumer awareness; particularly in the way people consume paper. This movement – if you can really call it a movement, as it really was just a friend, Netty and I who were the core behind this project – tried to get the faculty to regulate the use of paper in campus by making it obligatory to use both sides of the paper. It sounds really simple but quite affective to ensure that paper consumption could be reduced… Anyways, we collected signatures for a petition and almost got 400 people to sign. Although the faculty said they supported the idea, it was never made into a regulation…

Anyways, even though the main target of the movement wasn’t achieved, I have been getting overwhelming questions on this movement and offers to make this more official. This has made me really proud as my ideas are like babies to me. They came from and were nourished by me until society accepted them into their hands. Although I would like to see Gerakan Kertas Bolak-balik become bigger and more contributive to social change, I would prefer to have someone take it off my hands and do that for me… (Sort of makes you wonder how I would treat my babies in the future, huh… hahaha)

Anyways, Ideas… They are great things. They simply can’t die unless no one can find interest in them. So, yeah… don’t belittle abstract idea in your head… Just let them grow and who knows… maybe someone might come along and develop them for you!

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