Malam Ulang Janji

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Saya ingat. Malam ini beberapa tahun yang lalu, kami berkumpul untuk melaksanakan ulang janji sebagai anggota Gerakan Pramuka.

Sekarang, fisik saya mungkin tidak lagi bisa ikut berkumpul melaksanakan ulang janji bersama, tetapi jiwa saya tetap meresapi makna dalam janji yang dilafazkan berulang kali itu.

Ulang janji bagi saya bukan merupakan hal yang sakral atau hal yang pantas dikuduskan, namun yang saya percaya adalah ketika kita mengucapkan sesuatu berulang-ulang, kemungkinan hal itu akan bertahan lebih lama dalam ingatan akan meningkat. Jika otak kita saya sudah mengingatnya, akan lebih mudah bukan bagi tubuh untuk melakukan hal sesuai dengan apa yang tertanam di pikiran?
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Dirgahayu Gerakan Pramuka
14 Agustus 1961 – 14 Agustus 2013

Trisatya

Demi kehormatanku aku berjanji akan bersungguh-sungguh:
1. Menjalankan kewajibanku terhadap Tuhan, Negara Kesatuan Republik Indonesia dan mengamalkan Pancasila.
2. Menolong sesama hidup dan ikut serta membangun masyarakat
3. Menepati Dasadharma

When you’re gone

You said that everything will be better soon.

You said that everyone will be better soon.

You said that every moment will be better soon.

You said that every second will be better soon.

 

soon.

after you’ve gone.

 

everything is going back to how it used to be.

everyone is going back to how they used to be.

every moment is going back to how it used to be.

every second is going back to how it used to be.

 

soon.

after you’ve gone.

 

no more warm heart.

no more togetherness.

no more sweet smile.

no more helping hands.

 

soon.

after you’ve gone.

 

every little thing is turn to be the same as before you came.

no matter how many people say that Eid is not the ending, It’s the beginning.

what we’ve accomplished in Ramadhan seem to go away.

 

more radiant than before.

 

soon.

after you’ve gone.

I miss you already.

Mumbling #4

Bekerja di lingkungan yang dulu paling saya hindari membuat diri saya mempertanyakan banyak hal pada diri saya sendiri. Mempertanyakan kenapa saya tidak bisa lebih tegas atau kenapa saya tidak bisa dari dulu melakukan sesuatu demi masa depan yang sesuai dengan impian saya.

Kembali pada saat ini, saya seringkali membuat diri saya terjebak dalam situasi yang tidak saya inginkan, dan sering pula ketika saya memaksakan hal yang saya inginkan, yang saya temui hanya tembok yang semakin membuat saya ingin melebur menjadi debu.

Kemarin saya mengalami lagi hal yang persis saya alami satu tahun yang lalu. Persis di bulan yang sama. Saya mencoba mengkompromikan impian saya dengan keadaan saya saat ini, dan sekali lagi saya gagal.

Banyak orang yang bilang jika kita tidak merasa bahagia dengan apa yang kita lakukan saat ini, maka lebih baik kita berhenti saat itu juga. Saya sempat beberapa kali ingin mengundurkan diri dari realita saya saat ini, tetapi ketika saya ingat kembali alasan klise saya berada disini, maka saya masih tetap bisa menelan ludah dan meyakinkan diri untuk bertahan. Tapi sampai berapa lama? Apakah sampai saya tidak lagi ingat siapa saya dan apa yang ingin saya capai dalam hidup saya?

Mengapa begitu berat saya untuk keluar dari zona yang sebenarnya tidak nyaman ini? saya tidak punya alasan pasti selain keyakinan bahwa Allah tidak akan memberikan sesuatu yang sia-sia pada makhluknya. Mungkin banyak orang yang mencibir saya yang mengatakan saya hanya bisa mengeluh tanpa tindakan nyata untuk keluar dari lingkaran ini, dan saya tidak bisa menyatakan bahwa mereka sepenuhnya salah karena sebagian diri saya juga ikut sinis.

Pertimbangan-pertimbangan dan kontemplasi-kontemplasi yang terjadi dalam pikiran saya rasanya tidak pernah usai. Pikiran saya terus mencari jalan untuk setidaknya saya merasakan kebahagiaan yang tulus dari keadaan saya saat ini. Keinginan muluk saya tentu saja bahwa saya bisa mengubah lingkungan saya saat ini agar tidak ada orang lain yang mengalami apa yang saya alami. Jalan itu tentu tidak sebentar dan tidak mudah dan saya tidak yakin apakah saya dapat bertahan, karena saat ini saja rasanya saya mulai kehilangan pegangan hidup.

Adalah beberapa hal yang membuat saya bertahan dan menjadi basis realita saya. Senyuman Papa, Kehangatan teman dan keluarga serta para teman-teman SMA saya. Mereka benar-benar oase dalam zona ketidaknyamanan ini. Mereka selalu berhasil menyentil saya untuk berhenti dari kekalutan dan sejenak bersyukur dan menata kembali hati dan tujuan saya. Saya tahu mereka tidak sadar pentingnya mereka bagi saya. Seperti saat ini, ketika impian saya kembali di”hancur”kan, mereka membuat saya mengerti bahwa sesuatu itu di”hancur”kan agar kita dapat membangun yang baru dengan perencanaan yang lebih matang dan lebih mendekati kesempurnaan.

Catharsis

Do you know what I feel now?
I feel like I’ve been wasting my time..

I started to feel like it is finally the time to trust you, to trust that you finally have the sense in your mind.

I have never been so wrong.
You are the same old man.
Same old ignorant man.

How could someone be so mean and act like they have no heart at all?
How could someone be so cruel and easily broke others’ dream?
How could someone be so powerful but put it in the wrong way?

explain to me..
I am desperately need your explanation..
about how the justice ever serve you?
about how the destiny never disappoint you?

look at me..
now look closer and just look into my eyes..
soon enough, I will make you feel remorse..
You will regret the day you turn me down..
because you just make me wanna be more than an ordinary person..
and you will never get the credit..

I feel the day will come soon..
the day I need to thank you for letting me down now..
because I learn to do more and more..
just to make sure I will never be someone like you!

Ramadhan and Volunteering

We are now in the middle of the Holy Month. Ramadhan. The most anticipated month for muslims because of its big rewards. What we’ve taught since we were a kid is that if we do something good during this month, the value of our good deeds will be multiplied. What we always forget in one point is that Ramadhan is one special month that need eleven months training to get through it successfully. We forget that we have to exercise in the other eleven months to be a winner in the end of Ramadhan.

Volunteering is one of many good deeds that we can do in our life and maybe in this holy month, we get many chances to do it or to start doing it because people seems to be very helpful and very creative in making a way to help others.

Volunteering is always my biggest passion, I like to be involved in a non-profit activity but for now, my volunteering activity is kinda lose its chances dealing with my hectic avoidance mind. :sigh: I am not a member of one specific volunteer organization nor I funded one of them. I can only join them in my spare time that made me hard to keep up with their rhythm. *just another rationalization going in my mind* let’s us talk about other people then..

I have friends that dedicated their life for volunteering and I appreciate them very much. From all of my volunteer friend, I began to spot a pattern. I recognize two kinds of them. One of them volunteer in full spotlight, while the other one, like to keep it in the shadow.

My spotlight kind of friend is a member of many volunteer organization and always publish whatever activities they’re doing just like their life is devoted to volunteer and they had to make sure that the world know it. My shadow kind of friend is a member of only one organization that they established from zero. Their organization is in its way to be one big fish and somehow they could manage to hide that they are the people behind it.

So, which one is better? In my opinion, everyone has their own reason of what they choose to do in their life.

My friends in group spotlight believe that if everyone knows that they are doing something and if the world know that they actually enjoy doing it, also that volunteering could also make you famous, many people will roll up their sleeves to join the volunteers community. The buzz is also kind of volunteering.

My friends in group shadow believe that even if they work in a silence, society could not act like they don’t make differences. They tend to show that altruism is not only a myth.

So, which group are you in? The most important thing is the volunteering itself.

Let’s make this world a beautiful place to live, together..

Menyerah pada Mainstream..

Saya sebenarnya bukan orang yang anti mainstream, tetapi pada dasarnya saya adalah orang yang anti keramaian. Weekend kemarin, demi sodara saya yang datang dari Balikpapan, saya akhirnya mendatangi pusat keramain Ibukota pada hari Sabtu, 22 Juni 2013 yang lalu, Peringatan HUT Jakarta ke 486 di sepanjang jalan Thamrin. Demi menghindari macet dan kesulitan mencari parkir, kami berangkat dari rumah sekitar pukul 13.30 dan akhirnya memutuskan parkir di Plaza Indonesia (sampai di PI sekitar pukul 15.00). Kurangnya riset mendalam tentang perjalanan hari itu membuat kami tidak tahu kalau PI pada hari sabtu itu tutup pkl 16.00 dan keramaian baru mulai pukul 18.00. Akhirnya kami memilih untuk nonton Man of Steel dulu sambil menunggu waktu. Setelah selesai nonton, sekitar pukul 18.00 parkiran PI sudah sepi, akhirnya kami mencari parkiran di daerah sekitar GI dan mendapat tempat di depan Thamrin City, tidak terlalu jauh jika ditempuh dengan jalan kaki.

Sebelum berperang dengan keramaian kami makan nasi goreng dulu, setelah itu kami mulai berbaur dengan manusia yang mulai melimpah di seputar Bundaran HI. Ini pengalaman pertama saya yang membuat saya akhirnya tahu kalo di dekat air mancur Bundaran HI itu lantainya basah.. ๐Ÿ˜†

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Implicit Memory Vs Explicit Memory

I’ve made a fatal mistake last night, I forgot to switch off the stove but luckily one of my friends was there to turn it off before something worse happen. I guess it was not the first time I’ve made similar mistake, but it was the worst one. I began to think what is wrong with me? Why is it very hard for me to follow a procedural process? I always forgot to close a drawer, I rarely put something back to its place after I have finished using it, I often missed one action during performing procedural actions. While I have problem in performing procedural actions, I can remember an event clearly, I could recall almost the exact things happened in that event, I could memorize a person, even their full name and since I love to read, I could also remember the facts that I have read just fine.

So, What is happening with me? After the tragedy last night, I dig my neuropsychology books and skimming the memory section. I found out that there might be something wrong with my implicit memory, not an impairment, maybe my explicit memory is slightly better then my implicit memory.

What Is these Implicit memory and Explicit memories?

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Morning Spirit

God is hearing all of our prays, people told me. I believe He is. Like this morning, He answers me. Creepy? nope. He answers me on his own way, through people.

I have been wandering for some things lately, I stated it in my last post. This morning, I have the answers that calmed my mind. I have to wait. one year longer. Would it hurt to wait a year longer after these 3 years? I consider it fair enough. I can make better preparation, I can fix some or more things in my life before welcoming my time. ๐Ÿ˜‰

Pray for your dream as specific as you can, said someone to me. I couldn’t picture my dream specifically, maybe that is why I need to wait. I need to wait until I am ready. I need to make my self worth of it.

Since I need to wait, maybe You could make London as my destination, my dear God?

Where do I belong?

Where do I belong?

Been questioning this sentence to my self for a while now. I have troubled sleeping. I couldn’t concentrate for one thing at a time. My mind is always wandering. I can’t rest well and my body is not in a good health also.

People say that you don’t need to hear what others’ saying about you. You have to live your own dream, never surrender for what others want you to do. I’ve lost. I have lost in my own battle for my dream. I put my dream in the bet and I’ve lost, from the first time. I usually thought and sometime blame someone for where I stand right know. I used to say that I do all of these things for him, to make him happy, even I sacrifice my own happiness. I thought that his happiness in one time can also be my happiness. I was right, for only a short time. Now all that I can think is how misery I am. I always have a nightmare. Hopeless. My dreams is turning into my nightmare. Even when I am awake, all I can feel is sorry for my self.

I feel sorry because i haven’t fight hard enough for my dream. I feel sorry for giving up so easily the first time. I feel sorry for my fucked up life. I feel sorry for all the blames I’ve done. I feel sorry to finally realize that all the blame is on me.

Dreams.

People say that if we can visually reach our dream in our mind, or we always keep the dream in our mind, the dream will eventually be the one who will come to us. We need to keep fighting for our dreams, even in the most impossible stage, for what we always want is what will come to us. But what if our self is the one who separate us from reaching our dreams?