- felt compelled to do something for indonesia's independence day, haha.
everything below is just me rambling WHNRDSF feel free to ignore
being part of a country that was torn by over three hundred years of colonialism is like... i love you. i hate you. imperialists did irreparable damage to you. you did irreparable damage to me. i am your people. i am not your people. you are my home and i could never leave you. i want to be as far away from you as possible
jokes aside though i do have a fondness for independence day traditions. growing up my schools would always hold flag ceremonies, and while i don't miss them, i do miss all the games that followed. there were so many competitions held between classes and i kind of miss the innocent fun of cheering during a soccer match or taking part in an art contest or trying to eat kerupuk without using your hands the fastest without considering the broader context of nationalism and recovering from colonial mentalities and this and that and AAAAAA
