Jakarta is the same..
In Indonesia..there seem to be so many places where bottlenecks happen..
You're driving along happily
Then suddenly you hit congestion..
You think there's been an accident..and drive slowly
But it's because of bottlenecks where 4 lanes become 2 lanes..and 2 lanes become 1 lane
This kind of thing happens often..
Traffic is already frustrating
But at bottleneck points, without any hesitation, everyone pushes their way in first..
So the bottleneck gets even worse..
I've been married to my wife for about 10 years now..
In the beginning, we fought a lot..
We lived for decades in different environments..with different values
Then suddenly one day we became husband and wife and started living together
So there were so many things that didn't match..from how to squeeze the toothpaste..
We still fight now..
But we don't seem to fight as powerfully(?) as before..
The reason is..
First, I think it's because we're aware that the kids are listening..
When parents fight, kids get tense, don't they..
So it became kind of an implicit agreement between us..
Second, I think we understand each other to some extent now..
When I do this, my wife really hates it..
And when my wife does something, I dislike it..
We started thinking like this
And I'm not sure if it's because we don't have the energy to fight anymore
But we seem to be making small compromises with each other..
I've been drinking since I was 17 years old..
If I count only the alcohol I've consumed, I could have bought several houses..
If I stacked up all the bottles of alcohol I've drunk, they might reach from Jakarta to our Korean home..
Even while seeing so many bottles like this..
How dumb humans are..
Only now am I beginning to understand what bottlenecks are..
My wife and I..
We grew up in different environments and certainly have different values..
But as we each tried to push forward first
We got stuck at the bottleneck..
And sometimes we even collided and fought..
If we just slowed down one beat to let the other person pass first, there would be no problem..
Really..
But this..
You only learn this by experiencing it..
I only knew how to hold the bottle by the neck and suck the alcohol
Who would have known that such a truth of life was hidden inside that neck..
How could someone as smart as me not have realized that..
I find myself thinking deeply about it..
Probably..
It's because I mainly drank beer from cans..