AGNEZMO "A GIVER OF INSPIRATION"

Written by : Musa Firdaus
Edited by : JRagansan Purba

¶Everything starts with dreams and visions
And my dream is go (beyond what I think I can)
And to do more than (what it takes)
Unsurprisingly, the road for me to go there (is not always easy)
I’ve been bombarded with struggles and underestimation
As well as (winnings and elevations)

I have gone through
Tiredness, boredom, desperation
Tiredness, boredom, desperation
Tiredness, boredom, desperation

Tears and more tears
But It never breaks me down
No, never, ever
It never breaks me down
Not once, not now, not later

I believe in me
I believe in my dreams
No one can take away from me
If you just within me¶

That is a part of Agnez Mo prologue song from her third album “Sacredly Agnezious” entitled “I BELIEVE”. The prologue tells us that we must believe that we can make our dream comes true. Her spirit shows us that Agnez is someone who is truly dare to dream. She’s not only dream it, fellas! But she did it to make it happen! Her unstoppable hard work inspires us that it’s not easy to reach our dream. We need some learning processes and keep growing in a continiuosly improvement to pass some obstacles. But for her, all the difficulties can’t stop her to put up her dream. She keeps consistent to show us that if we have a dream,  don’t just keep it in your mind, but fight for it. She inspires us a lot, and that’s why most of people admire her. So, I believe that choosing her as our idol can give us some positive effects. 

As one of the most followed artist on Twitter with more than 10 million followers, she often expresses her feeling again to her God in that popular social media. On June 2^nd 2014, she posted a tweet “feeling so blessed...thank you Lord Jesus Christ. You are my Strength, my Rock, my best Friend, my Father. I love You”. We can conclude that she is fully surrender to God and really makes her God as the main source of power for her life. She loves God so much!. One of my biggest pride to Agnez Mo is the fact that she always keeps her belief and never gets influenced of wrong belief like other famous singers or actresses in the world. In every step of what AgnezMo has done to fight her dream proves that we must always remember our God because we are nothing out of God.

First, she reminds us to be thankful to God all the time, no matter what! We know Agnez as a singer and an actress who never forgets to dedicate all of her achievements to God. For example, on March 27^th, 2012, Agnez accepted her first Shorty Awards as the winner for Shorty Vox Populi Award 2012 in New York. Proudly she said, “Wow...I wanna thanks to Jesus for being my Lord and Savior!” It means that without God, she would never be someone like what we have seen right now with all her perfect accomplishment. She counts her blessings to God!. 

But we have to realize that we can not make all of our plans run as well as we plan. We have to learn and build our character to be strongger everyday becoz not all people are strong enough to face the failures, even some people can kill themselves because of these!. Agnez Mo told us, “Don’t ever give up if you get some failures”.  She showed us that it was not easy for her to be someone like she is already today. She didn’t get support from many people when she said she wanted to be an international superstar. Many people underestimated her abilities and thinking that she is arrogant. But it can’t stop her to fight, and she still keeps confident to be a very positive person with her dream. She does something seriously! She made it and she is an Indonesian superstar!

Second, she motivates us to be consistent with our dreams. When Agnez Mo was appointed by American culture Center to speak in front of 300 ACCESS students on Friday, May 6th 2011, she stated that we must believe in the power of dream because without dream, we won’t know our goal in life. Our dream must be fully supported by our consistency and hard working. Don’t let what other people say about your dream become an obstacles to pursue your dreams. Her statements above have made us realize that if we have a dream, we have to try to achieve it. She inspired us to wake up and start to work for our dream!. We have to believe that we can pursue our dream because we want it. I believe the bright future in our dream is the first step to make our goal come true. 

Fourth, she teaches us to respect our parents more. When Agnez invited in a talk show, Agnez said, “My parents and I come from a different fields”. Her parents are national athletes but Agnez was born to be a superstar in entertainment world (she is a singer; an actress; a dancer, a producer and a song writer), but she said that her parents always teach her to be a determined and perseverance person if she wants to get success. And as athlete, her parents applied the two principles of determined and perseverance in their career. Agnez followed what her parents told her to be a successful person for her career. She can’t be a person like she is now without supports from her parents. From these we can learn that even though we have different interests from our parents, just respect our parents by following what they say.

Third, she teaches us to be proud as Indonesian. Flash back again, on March 27^th 2012 in Shorty Award when Agnez Mo achieved that award she is proudly said, “Hey all. I’m not from here. I’m originally from Indonesia “. From that statement we conclude that she wanted to let the world knows that she is very proud to be an Indonesian. Do you know she does not have purely Indonesian blood? Her father is a Chinese and her mom has Japanese and Javanese blood, but she was born and grow up in Indonesia. Then she lives abroad for a long time to reach her international career and I think she never thinks to change her nationality, because if she wants to change it, sure she has done that from a long time ago. Indonesia must be proud of her. Why? Because in her first International music video which is entitled “Coke Bottle” she wore traditional clothes of Indonesia (baju dodot). Its means that she never forgets her country and she is so proud to wear that clothes while other celebrities prefer to wear modern costumes. She wants to show the world that our traditional clothes are very beautiful, unique, luxurios, and fabulous. Do you know wearing such kind of costume is not a simple thing?. It is complicated to wear and it is not as simple as modern clothes. But she wore it and she look so sexy. Now, most of us still confused why many Indonesian people still underestimate her ability to make this belove country, Indonesia, to be proud of having her. 

Fifth, she inspires us to be a sociable person. Several years ago, Agnez Mo created a social foundation that named “Anak Muda Punya Foundation”. That Foundation had collected money that was contributed for disaster victim of earthquake in Padang in the end of 2009, tsunami in Japan in 2011, and also flood in Jakarta in 2013. The latest information told us that her foundation also helped the victims of volcanic eruption of mount Sinabung in North Sumatera. Agnez inspired people and young generation by these social activities to care with other people life, especially they are who get suffer from natural disasters.

In summary, idolizing Agnez Mo will give us some positive effects because she gives so much good examples that are good to be followed and applied in our life. Her inspiring motto of life “Dream, Believe and Make It Happen” changes our rules life. We are brave to put more expectations for our dreams. Although it’s almost impossible, just dream on, believe what you want in God, and you must make it happen. #DARETODREAM

"Inspiration is a light,

and it makes your world shining bright" 

(JRagansan Purba)