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Jomblang Cave Jogjakarta

Yesterday I came across a YouTube video called Analog Trip, this video is about 6 K-pop idols went on a trip to Indonesia for holiday. My older sister was the one who recommend me to watch it a few months ago.

The whole 12 series of their video were very good, but there are two episodes that left huge impression to me. In this video they were visiting Goa Jomblang  or Jomblang Cave. This cave located in Gunung Kidul the special region of Indonesia Yogyakarta. This vertical cave is a thousand years sinkhole with enormous 50 meter wide mouth of cave. This place also a conservation for tropical ancient plants managed by local people. If lucky, people could enjoy the 'Heaven Light', the 90 meter magnificent light that piercing through the cave

To go in and out of the cave people have to work together. It is a 💯 percent manual labor tourist spot. A group of experts helps tourist to go in by the rope, and pull the tourist out using a bunch of local people muscles. The tourists have to put their trust to a group of strangers, and their life literally hanging by the rope provided by the expert.

To go to the final destination, a person has to walk a long way through the darkness on the muddy and slippery ground. Surprisingly, people who travel in a group will help each other automatically without being asked. People are tend to work well together and help each other when they face the same difficulties. And at the end of destination all the hardworks were paid off. It doesn't matter whether the heaven lights would shine or not, a person already has conquered many obstacles to reach the end and it is a very remarkable achievement.

Hardship are needed in life, so people would fathom satisfaction. There won't be light without darkness, there won't be heat without cold. Cold is just an event where the heat is absence, and dark is just the absence of light.

Our life also the same, there is no hard life is just the absence of something good to come. My favourite motto in life is 'Blessing in Disguise', for me everything that doesn't go according to my plan and wish are all blessing in disguise. We all will always have the last laugh, we just don't know when we will have the last laugh.



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