Humanity and Beautiful Outcome from Bruised We Experienced

Just yesterday I sat in one of my loveliest friend’s house that has absolutely beautiful pieces of artworks hanging on her wall. Those paintings really do make her place feels so special, cozy, and alive. Then I asked if those are Aboriginal artworks and what’s the stories behind it. Then she said it is indeed Aboriginal paintings and she shared the heart-breaking story behind one of the painting and she told me that almost all of those artworks that hanging on the wall came from her Aboriginal artist friend and some of her family members that happen to be exceptional local artists in Australia.

I know this friend for a year bit more, just before COVID, we literally met at church at the Growth Track program and since then we hang a lot because, yes we are single working ladies, and we are fun obviously (ha-ha). But, more than that I also think my dear friend is also a sister I can look up to; she is very kind and full of compassion and understanding — very wise in many ways and whenever I spend time with her I would never able to sit in anxiety; whether when we talk, laugh a lot, or in silents.

She is one of several sisters I met at church in 2020. I am forever grateful for sisters that love me as I am and let me be their little/older friend, help me to flourish in a lot of areas in my life, and inspire me to be a better girl. I really can confess good circles in my life help me to go further. To find friendship in sisterhood is also a gift from above, answers to prayers, and the works of grace.

Real friendship is no small thing, either way it’s between friendship in sisters or brothers. Since 2020 I began to appreciate many little things. And it is one of the reason that makes me continue to keep cooking; because I do love my family and friends, wholeheartedly.

By no means, I have a choice to stop cooking as a chef, and often time I feel like to, as I am the girl with so many wounds; inside & outside. Well, I’m working as a chef in some of the very busy & prestigious restaurants since I was 18th yrs old — that is almost 9 years ago when plenty of unfair and abusive treatments was still happening a lot in the hospitality industry, especially in the kitchen. But, I am glad I didn’t stop and I can witness plenty of changes are happening, especially in the workplace place I am at now.

Often, I felt like this is one of the reason I can really relate to people’s struggles and pain because I have been on it, felt it, and experienced it. Not that today’s life I don’t face life’s struggle, but definitely I am in a better place. However, to be in the shoes of someones who experienced inhuman treatments, I really understand how it felt and I can sympathise with that situation deeply. Although, I might not experienced it as hardcore as some people did, but I care about those issues more and more over time.

Today is Australian day. I pray and hope people would take time and pause to think about Aboriginal people who didn’t receive their rights as human beings in Australia. A lot of their life is not in a good position, but it is not because of them, it’s because of the situation and past that was unfair to them, therefore they become the victims of the circumstances. They deserve healing and a better place too. I pray that people and government take massive steps towards this issue so they will have a better place to live in their own land.

In Australia, I am a migrant too. Somehow I felt like I have no place here, but some of my local Australian mates are so loving and also revealed that actually they’re migrant too either they’re 1st or 2nd or 3rd generation.

We are all sailing from everywhere to find a better living, in hope to find good life we deserve as a human in a broken world, I hope we can be kind to each other and lending our hands when others need it. I hope we are not going just to talk about what was bad in the past, but simply acknowledging it, and put our hands up to be part of the change.

Thank you for reading my hearts’ sharing. Bruises, wounds, scars do heal. Justice will raise to the surface. Beautiful outcomes will prevail. There will be unity in humanity.

Those are not exclusive, it’s inclusive — we all can experience this.

We can and we will.

We are not victims, we are weapons.

Kish.