Missing bulbs

I read By The Way..., lighten up please... (The Jakarta Post, Aug. 20, 1995) with laughter and tears in my eyes.

In fact, the missing bulbs occurred not only in Jakarta but also here in my small town of Probolinggo in East Java.

Then, I realized that there were a lot of our fellow people still hungry, even though they danced happily in the streets during normal celebration days. We absolutely know how to feign prosperity. We borrow our neighbor's sugar before presenting a cup of sweet warm tea to our guests, don't we? And we aren't ashamed. Instead, we feel a bit guilty if we don't.

A. EKO MUNORAHARDJO

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