Topsy- Turvy Lady (Metropop Novel)

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Topsy- Turvy Lady

By Tria Barmawi

                Topsy- Turvy Lady tells about a girl whose name is Gladys, a daughter of rich man. She lives in hedonic lifestyle. Gladys is in loves with Sandi, a guy with rootless family background. She was blinded by her love toward that guy. She prefers to choose Sandi than her family. Unfortunately, her life isn’t going better even getting worse. She was crossed out from the families list. The worst one, that guy leaves her when he succeeds draining Gladys’s savings and leaving so much debt in her credit card. 

                Finally, she realized that she is gullible. She was panicked and confused. She has to downsizing, lowers the standard living of her and tried looking for a job. Gladys is a university student and doesn’t have any skill enough yet for seeking a job. In the end, she decided being a babysitter. 

                In fact, Gladys is the youngest child in her family who is always spoiled by her parents. At first she doesn’t know how to treat a child. In the end, she enjoys that job moreover she loves it. She has planned to continue her study on early childhood education and eventually open a kindergarten or preschool at the end of her study. 

What have I learned through this novel?

We have to listen our family’s opinion when they gave advice about our future husband. Almost all of their prediction is right. Don’t ignore theirs. You have to think theirs as a consideration. In the end, decision is in our hand.

Some parts of this novel persuade us to treat maids as family. 

Just choose whether you change your environment or you are changed by the environment. In this novel, the girl who lives in hedonic lifestyle finally almost succeeds downsizing her lifestyle. She leaves branded bag, cloth and other branded things. In addition, she also influences her rich family to care with other poorer people and treats their house maids as a human rather to slave.

A true friend won’t leave us when we are facing the hardest moment in our life. For instance, a fake friend just stays beside us when we are rich and leave us when we faced bankruptcy. It's true, proverb of a friend in need is a friend indeed. In hard times we will know which ones is a true friend and which ones is pretending as our friend.

Don’t trust a guy easily especially a guy with rootless family background. Probably he just pretends as an employee in a company but in fact he is a jobless guy. Don’t let yourself is blinded by love too much.