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Honestly, the 1 word that made me sick when I arrived in Japan 2 years ago is: GANBARU (struggle until the death). Sick as hell, I swear, because every time there's a leadership with the professor, the closing is always: Motto ganbattekudasai! Taihen dakedo, isshoni ganbarimashoo! Motto motto kenkyuu shitekudasai! (Let's fight together! I know this is hard but let's fight together! Let's make more and more researches!)
Until I really wanted to say: Don't you have any other words than GANBARU? Others may, but please not GANBARU.
GANBARU is not just fight that if you're lazy or meet many obstacle, then okay let's quit. According to the Japanese dictionary, GANBARU is: "Doko made mo nintai shite doryoku suru (Survive until the last and keep trying).
GANBARU itself is consist with 2 kanji characters that are "hard" and "tighten". So the image that come out from these 2 characters is: "Though we face hard problems, we must be hard and keep on tightening our self, so that we will win the problems". (Don't be lazy and consider a problem is natural in life. Life is hard so don't pray for simplicity. Life problems can only be done with GANBARU).
Honestly, 2 years in Japan, I don't understand why the Japanese make GANBARU their philosophy.
Even a 3 years old kid is is be taught GANBARU in her school. For example; in the winter, they have to wear thin shirts so they won't be spoiled by the cold weather. In the schools are not allowed to use socks because if your sole touch the floor directly, it's good for your health. When you're ill until your nose is running or have a fever until 37 degrees, the schools still want you to go to school so that you can face your own illness.
That's why whenever I take a stroll by bicycle with my daughter, she always says: Mama ganbatte! Mama faitooo!!
The point is, don't be spoiled just because of problems. GANBARU until the death is a must!
I started to understand why GANBARU is so important in our life when the 9.0 magnitude earthquake hit the eastern Japan. I know that disasters in Indonesia like the tsunami in Aceh, Nias, the earthquake in Padang, and the Merapi volcanic eruption is not an easy thing to handle. But the tsunami and earthquake in Japan are much more nasty! They even said that this is the biggest and nastiest tsunami and earthquake in the world.
So it's natural if the government and the Japanese were panic. It's natural if they cried, confused and didn't know what to do.
And yes it is forgiven if the televisions broadcast a little BGM with a sad song and a clip that showed the tears of the Japanese children and victims.
And how is that not possible? The tsunami and earthquake destroyed everything that they had. So it's only natural if they lost their hope.
But what happened after the tragedies?
From day 1, I've been waiting for the clips and songs that I told you above. I also looked for a place to charity. Those 3 things, were not shown on TV. So what's in the TV?
This is what I saw on TV:
- The government's warning so the citizen will always stay on guard.
- The government's appeal so the citizen will help each other on facing the tragedies (including the request for the citizen to save the electricity so the Tokyo and Tohoku citizen won't get a long lights off).
- The government's apology because they have to rotate the power outages.
- Tips to face the disasters.
- The disaster call centre's number for 24 hours.
- The SAR team from every prefect to the districts that was hit.
- The government and citizen's photos when they help each other (They're very ready! The Japanese life is very precious).
- The government giving spirit calmly and not emotional: "Let's face the tragedies together with all our heart).
- The citizen's photos that are encouraging each other *There's a man that is still searching for his lost wife. He's very confused but still keep his emotion and calmly. He was encouraged by an old lady: Ganbatte sagasoo! Kitto mitsuru kara! Akiramenai de! (Let's search your wife! We will found her! Don't give up!).
As an Indonesian that never saw this kind of handling by GANBARU, I'm really ashamed and in the same time, amazed and total respect to the citizen and government of Japan.
This is a very amazing country. The natural resources are limited yet they are very hard. But they can move forward and have a great mental because of GANBARU.
You can say that the Japanese have nothing except GANBARU. And GANBARU is more than enough to face any other life problems.
It is true that we have to pray and resigned to God.
I guarantee you 100%, as long as our mental is still the same, until doomsday, our nation won't advance like Japan.
Lastly, I will say:
Indonesia,
Jin no watashi ni ganbaru no seishin to imi wo oshietekudasai, kokoro kara kansha itashimasu. Nihonjin no minasan no yoo ni, ganbaru seishin wo mi ni tsukeraremasuu yoo ni, hibi ganbatteikitai to omoimasu.
(I thank from the bottom of my heart to teach me the GANBARU mental for me, an Indonesian. I will fight everyday, so the GANBARU mental can overcome me just like all of you, Japanese).
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A very wise and amazing story right? I really love how she described the Japanese that stay calm while overcoming this kind of tragedy... I hope someday our nation can progress like that! And remember, keep in mind that GANBARU is a must for us ^^
GANBATTE ALWAYS!!
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