Thursday, February 18, 2016

A Little Slap From God to Keep Our Feet at The Ground

Mereka bilang sudah saatnya kita turun. Sudah saatnya roda berputar. Usahanya sudah tidak seperti yang dulu-dulu lagi.
Mereka bilang ini saatnya memberi kesempatan pada yang lain, saatnya mereka menjadi pahlawan.
Yang mereka tidak tahu adalah usaha kami, beban di punggung kami, dan janji-janji yang menunggu untuk ditepati. Mereka tidak tahu bahwa untuk menjadi pahlawan, ada pihak yang dijatuhkan. Pihak yang dalam hal ini bukan antagonis (tapi tak ada yang tahu karena well, proses persiapannya tidak disorot kamera).
We deserved this.
They didn’t see it. They only see what they wanted to see – a bunch of people that didn’t even try, but randomly got the ability to be a winner.
We’re not. There’s so little talent involved here. It’s pure hard work, our work.
Mungkin doa kita masih kurang, mungkin kita masuk pada tahun yang salah. But nobody can say we didn’t work hard. Nobody can say the competition was at its fairest, and that we lost by objectivity. Nobody can say we didn’t take this seriously, and that we didn't try as hard as we used to be. That crying when we walked out of the door, it was not of regret, but rather, of disappointment.

Tapi nggak apa-apa. We’re the ones who dare to dream. We have visions, and we chase it. We didn’t back down even though we know it’s gonna be hard.

Di sisi manisnya, kita saling mengenal.
Menghabiskan malam-malam bersama, satu potong ayam dan susu milo.
Mengucap doa setelahnya, diterangi cahaya senter yang melukis bayangan lingkaran tangan raksasa yang naik-turun seiring irama di atap yang setengahnya berlubang.
Bermimpi di bawah langit malam, membentuk bayangan dari tangan-tangan yang lelah di langit-langit istana, tertawa 
Berjalan di bawah hujan untuk sembahyang selepas matahari terbenam dan bersujud kepada-Nya, berdoa agar semua tak sia-sia.
Tak ada yang sia-sia.

From it we learn. My God, do we learn.

Saturday, February 13, 2016

Lifetime Show

Because if we take time to look into someone else's life, we won't find any black and white. We realize that everybody is a protagonist in their own story, and they have their reason to act the way that others may perceive as evil.

Friday, February 12, 2016

February Music Tags

Well I'm thinking of doing tags and I thought it'd be fun! I'm not into makeup or brands or gadgets or any of the cool youtube tags. I will only share my monthly interests of music, movies, and occasionally books. 

Okay, for February, I cannot get my head out of this beautiful piece by Norah Jones. I've known this song for quite some time from my father's collection, but only now I can truly appreciate it. I've never considered myself a die-hard romantic type of person. Most of the YA books, movies, and songs are either too superficial or too diabetic for me. Story slash confession time! So to be honest, I don't feel love the way people do, never crush on somebody I just met. Sometimes I wonder if I'm some sort of asexual person. However, I fell in love everyday with the way people laugh, their sparkly eyes, the way they pet a cat or help out strangers. Things like that are attractive to me, and it does make me smile. But relationships never go anywhere for me. I never got hit by a wave of overwhelming love/crush all my life. 
But I still think I'm a romantic, it's just that my taste for romance is different than most people. It has little to do with things on the surface like getting in a relationship, being asked to the dance with outrageous proposal by a charming jock, getting big cute surprise on your birthday, etc. My taste for romance is extreme. Either it's twisted, complicated, deep, or very simple and soft. This song is what my heart would say if it can speak, on its peaceful state. This is my kind of romance. Soft and simple. No surprises. No fancy video with expensive cars and beautiful hair and melting smile. Just pack our things and go, both of us, somewhere safe from everyone we know. Start over peacefully.


(pay attention to the lyrics, lie down and relax, don't rush. listen and it will drift you to your nicest sleep ever)