Sunday, March 19, 2006

Life is Unfair?

I have waited for 2 years and 3 months before I get to see my husband everyday, at home with my kids. He works in different states and we only see each other during weekend, sometimes 3 days a week, and sometimes 2 days. I went through my first pregnancy alone, most of the time. When I was pregnant with my second child, slightly alone because my first born accompanying me 24/7. At last in August 2005, when he finally got his opportunity to further study for PhD, we got to live under one roof as a family of four. It was tedious to teach our kids to live in this country, but we settled down eventually without much problems.

When things seem to be going great for all of us, the bad news always come to us. Why those people just cannot let my husband alone? After all hard work he had done for the university, let see - student orientation, retreat, sports, cultural activities, exhibitions, students' programs, and not to forget - lists of published papers and presentations overseas (yepp, he went to Canada last year when Nabilah is one year old), they simply wants him broken into pieces. First, they started with no job confirmation after almost 2 years teaching, for lame excuse like 'You don't have enough teaching time' - when his colleague who joined much later than him, confirmed after few months but have similar teaching time as my husband and without a single paper published. Then, the clique thing plus office politics (hate this sooo much!) - among themselves, boycotted him because he hated to attend department meeting, just because they always talked among themselves without any actions afterwards. Talk, talk and talk. He only interested in Faculty meeting because that was where all important topics were discussed and chaired by a responsible Dean.

I am in no position to make any decision right now. I like this country, but my home is where I belongs to. After 6 months break for tiring job, I have clear mind of what actually I want to do with my life and my family. I hope to stay but everything happens for a reason. I do pray alot that we gonna go through this well.

p/s: My dearest, I will be by your side no matter what happens. Our journey is long and we will go through this together as always. Our kids are wonderful and they know their father is a wonderful adorable dad every kids dream about.

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