Lesson Learned

A friend ever asked me what my dream for the future is and I automatically said that I wanted to be happy. He thought for a minute and then replied: “ if your dream is to be happy, isn’t it implied that you are not happy today, in the present?” Then I thought, and I thought and I thought. He was right. Soon I realized that happiness was not something you seek as a goal, but something that glued to the process, whatever the goal was. *lalu emak gue sukuran since anaknya mulai menunjukkan tanda-tanda kewarasan lol God is merciful Thus, He designs happiness as something that has no boundary nor minimum standars. A granny who sells mineral water at some conjunctions can be happy eventhough she has no money nor health insurance. A newspaper boy smiled widely after someone who bought his newspaper told him to keep the change. He was happy regardless how relatively unlucky he was, compared to other young boys. This granny and this boy have the same chance as much as o...

Waw, my life sure as busy as I tried to imply It is already a month and all I can post on this blog is one single abstract writing about something so random in life. Pardon me since you have no choice but to keep up with my absurdness (is absurdness even a word? l ol) Okay, let’s fill this blank space with another life experience which successfully drained all my energies for the last couple of weeks. Oh well, pulling our sights back to the title of the entry there you can find a piece of life experience I’ve mentioned earlier. A huge survival attempt to maintain our existence I choose this phrase to represent my situation after my messy move - out to Jakarta a month ago. Who said that survival attempt is only required in pre-historic era when earth is mostly covered by jungle -and water, of course-  and cavemen are still alive? In this era, where we are living in the jungle of skyscrapers and have to share the same air with thousands or even billions other hu...