The Philosophy of Bee

Silent week is coming. We have twelve days free for this silent week. Actually, silent week is not a real holiday, because we had to study to face the final test in the next, after the silent week finished. So, it is time for me to return home to my hometown, Bekasi.

When I arrived home, I got an interesting news from my father. He was invited to the launching of a new icon of Bekasi regency. My father told me that this new icon launched at the appropriate moment with new years 2009. It is very unique and cute icon, because it use a bee with an attractive color.

In that event, the launcher explained about the new icon. Why they choose a bee for the icon of Bekasi regency. From the explanation, we can know that bees are very useful for human. They produce pure honey for us. Their sting can be used for therapy or alternative medicine. They also have good characters, such as, obedient to the leader and share their works together or we usually call as “gotong-royong”. So, we can watch and imitate their good characters and apply in our daily-life.

It remain me when I was in the 11th grade of senior high school. My class was sains-5, and we also used bee as our icon and put it on our jacket. In that time, we didn’t know exactly what the meaning of the bee is. We just used it because it looked very cool and cute. But now, it is very satisfied for me to know that a bee have a good philosophy. So, we didn’t choose the wrong icon.

It is the new icon of "POLMAS" in Bekasi regency

And it was my class icon when i was in the 11th grade