late night thoughts

chicken soup for the soul: best friend

10:24 PM

hai, b. it's (always) been a long time


di perjalanan menuju bandung ini, tiba-tiba gue punya hasrat untuk nulis. sumpah, gak ngerti kenapa gue selalu mendadak punya ide nulis di kereta. sayangnya, kereta makan udah penuh buat gue bisa santai buka laptop sambil ngecharge dan nulis dengan proper. gue nggak pernah suka nulis panjang pakai hp. tapi, urgensi untuk nuangin perasaan gue yang lagi membuncah banget ini bisa dibilang tinggi banget. terlalu tinggi, kalo ga gue tulis sekarang bisa jadi keburu basi, madingnya udah mau terbit. ba dum tss!

belakangan ini, gue kayak ditampar, disadarin. i guess this is just the time when i finally learned something about life; friendship. pertemanan, persahabatan, you name it.

what a best friend really is anyway? 

orang yang kemana-mana bareng gue di sekolah? chairmate bertahun-tahun? people whom i share lunch table with? orang yang nge-tag-in bangku kuliah buat gue? partner belajar ujian dan makan bubur barito setelahnya? people whom i take photos with on the first dan last day in school while wearing matching clothes? people you share memes or gossip in line groups?

well then i guess, i have so much best friends.

sebagai seorang introvert totok dari lahir (i'm an INTJ), gue jarang sekali merasa bergantung atau attached sama orang selain keluarga. all of a sudden, i remember a memory when my primary school friends and i went to dufan. gue yang gabung bareng temen-temen gue eventually ngacir sendiri, cobain wahana yang pengen gue coba tapi mereka ga mau, and i ended up exploring the whole place by myself until i got a call from the bus. gue ga pernah merasa takut sendirian atau merasa takut nggak-bareng-temen. that moment, i was so sure that i could actually live and find my own happiness without depending on the existence of friends.

konsep pertemanan nggak pernah punya arti yang mendalam dalam hidup gue sampai gue kuliah. jadi baru-baru ini gue lupa denger atau baca dari mana; tapi kata-kata ini benar-benar melekat banget di memori gue. padahal gue sendiri termasuk orang yang sangat pelupa, apalagi buat inget detail kata-kata orang lain. more or less, kata-katanya seperti ini:

Nemuin sahabat yang baik untuk jiwa kamu tuh susah langka. Punya sahabat itu rezeki. Ga semua orang bisa punya rezeki itu.

when those words came across, a particular person suddenly lingered on my mind. saat itu juga gue ngerasa 'disadarkan' kalau... ya dia tuh rezeki gue. lebih dari sekedar temen yang kemana-mana bareng, lebih dari sekedar chairmate, temen makan siang di kantin, temen yang ngetag-in bangku kuliah, atau temen gosip di grup line.

this person is my safe place. di depan orang ini, somehow gue bisa merasa emotionally naked. nggak banyak orang yang bisa bikin gue ngerasa nyaman (and vice versa) untuk diajak ngobrol dari hati ke hati. tentang hal-hal personal, tentang nilai-nilai yang masing-masing kita anut, tentang hal-hal yang gue treasure atau hal receh yang nggak gue suka tanpa takut ngerasa 'nggak aman', topik sesensitif keluarga yang gak bisa dishare ke sembarang orang, tentang issues yang gue hadapin, berbagi ketakutan, insecurity, kelemahan... or people whom i able to pour my feelings and share about my imperfections on life in the middle of the night. bersama mereka gue ngerasa energi, jiwa, mental dan batin gue recharged kembali. lucunya, gue bisa sahabatan dan punya ikatan emosional yang kuat secara alami dengan orang yang satu ini; yang kalo dipikir-pikir kenalnya singkat itupun melalui perantara, tapi jejak dia dalam hidup gue tuh jauh lebih berbekas dan ngena dibanding orang lain yang berada di sekitar gue bertahun-tahun lamanya. apa lagi sih namanya kalo bukan rezeki?

entahlah...

mungkin gue exaggerating di mata orang lain. atau mungkin pathetic?

to me, it's not. it's really something big. it's huge. gue nggak ngerti apa yang membuat kepribadian gue terbentuk kayak gini, tapi tanpa sadar, i tend to build walls to everyone dari sejak kecil. bagi gue yang nggak bisa easily open up to people; finding out people whom i can share this very little space of my introverted self adalah sesuatu yang nggak bisa disebut biasa aja. 

she's the kind of people where my 11 years old self would be willing to explore dufan together; bukan karena gue takut sendirian dan nggak ada teman, tapi karena gue sangattt sayang sama orang ini... dan betapa jauh lebih menyenangkan dan bahagianya pasti perjalanan gue dengan kehadiran dia.

orang yang bersangkutan juga pasti udah tau (dan pasti senyum senyum sendiri bacanya hoek), as i have expressed my gratitude to this person. you know who you are ya. thank you. keberadaan lo ngebuat gue untuk pertama kalinya, di umur dua puluh satu, ngerasa kalo semandiri apapun gue, gue nggak harus ngejalanin hidup ini sendirian. indeed, punya sahabat itu rezeki; dan gue bersyukur lo rezeki gue.

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privilege

11:12 PM

what does privilege mean to you?

some people might see privilege implied by having a decent place to live. some others think of education. loaded with golds and money, perhaps? or being a royalty? a great physical appearance? a functional family?

sometimes we see things we don't have as a privilege someone else has. i have another think coming that --maybe, just maybe, we kinda overuse this word just a little bit too much as an excuse of achieving things.

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figuring out

10:22 PM

this blank space gives me such a heavy pressure. every single time. di saat yang sama, juga seolah ngetawain gue yang kebingungan harus nulis apa. harus berbagi apa. harus cerita apa. harus apa.


...when will i finally be able to figure things out in my life.

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thank you

8:34 PM

hanya ada segelintir orang di hidup gue yang pernah menyaksikan & been through with me.. emotionally naked.

fragile.

and i'm thankful for your existence.

for handling me through those bumps. for accepting me being who i am, my emotions. my random rants at 4 am when i had my breakdown. my random burst-out tears in the car at midnight.

thank you

you know who you are.

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things about D

9:12 PM

last year was though.


but i'm glad i have someone i always can rely on during my ups and downs, during my late night thoughts, during indomie session at the nearest warkop, before and after class, and during my sleepless nights studying perdis for UAS.

i always wanted to write something about him, but somehow i couldn't.. you left me no words, D. even after these whole months.

kamu pernah nggak ketemu orang yang somehow bikin kamu ngerasa emotionally naked?

that's exactly how i feel whenever i'm with him.

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00.16

12:17 AM

as i'm growing older, i realized that being in a relationship isn't always about love and lust and happy things. i was so naive back then. took some time for me to understand that there are major differences between being in love and being in a relationship. being attached: it's about commitment, letting someone live into your boundaries and contribute in every decision you make in your life, to bear each other's vision, traits, lifestyle, perspective, and values. those things aren't always easy to be accepted. i was taught that the idea of being attached with someone is overrated; it's deliberating. people taught me how to avoid, refuse, or end a relationship; but nobody taught how to unlove and unfeel things.

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00.09 questions

12:09 AM

when do you know very sure that you're in love; and how do you know that you actually love them, not with the idea of being with them?

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utopia

11:43 PM

Perhaps life itself is messy, complicated and exhausting. But, hey, it doesn't cost anything to imagine a beautiful one. Each of us have our own version of utopia. Mine would be:

be able to feel comfortable with my father.

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to enjoy it or to rush it?

10:47 PM

The fact that time flies so fast, both scares me and soothes me at the same time.

IT RUNS TOO FAST, JUST IN A BLINK OF AN EYE. Di twitter dan snapgram adik kelas gue isinya lagi pada heboh karena besok pengumuman SNMPTN. Shock banget karena udah pengumuman aja... berarti udah setahun sejak gue lepas dari SMA. It always seems like i just got here, kebingungan & figuring out my college life (masih figuring out sih sebenernya sampe sekarang). Secepet itu berlalu, tau-tau mungkin tanpa sadar gue ntar nulis di sini udah nyandang gelar sarjana ((HUHU semoga masih jadi calon sarjana hukum ya bukan sarjana danus!!))

BUT IT SOOTHES ME THOUGH. Artinya semua beban tugas, ujian dan kegiatan-kegiatan berikut kepanitian blackhole ini ujungnya bakal berakhir juga. Artinya bakal cepet libur. Cepet semester baru. Cepet nyelesain hal-hal yang belom diselesain.Cepet kuliah. Cepet lulus. Cepet kerja. Cepet settling down. Cepet nikah... mungkin?

Tapi, kenapa juga hidup harus cepet-cepet?

Time; what is it meant to be? To be enjoyed or to be rushed?

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-

10:52 PM

Halo. Ini hari keempat gue di Depok setelah menghabiskan hampir dua bulan liburan semester di Bandung.

Lalu sekarang gue mulai kangen Bandung...

Though i used to hate the city, the people, the weather.

Kelamaan liburan bikin gue demotivasi kuliah. Mood gue masih terselip di antara sesi ngopi sore di Mr. Guan bareng Cynti minggu lalu.  Masih juga keselip di antara sesi foto random bareng Rasyid, Hani, Tuti, dan Olin di Tahura. Sisa-sisanya ketinggalan di kantin SMA 2, di kamar mama, dan di Kineruku.

Setelah hampir dua bulan terlepas dari kehidupan kuliah yang seinget gue terakhir kali sangatlah stressful (yaiyalah halo uas), terus balik lagi dan mulai kuliah lagi, i've been dealing with my own thoughts. Nggak tau kenapa all these thoughts tentang keberadaan gue di sini, tujuan gue, dan hal-hal lain mulai ngusik banget. Is this the place where i really belong? Is this what i really wanted to do? Most importantly, kenapa sih gue selalu mempertanyakan hal-hal kayak gini setiap kali gue memulai sesuatu? Like i was never sure of myself. Like i always doubt my decision. Waktu gue SMP, gue selalu bilang  ga betah. Eh ternyata betah banget sampai pas masuk SMA, gue bilang masa SMA sucks abis, benci SMA, ngerasa nggak fit in, ngerasa gak nyaman. Begitu gue lulus SMA, gue baru sadar masa SMA gue seru banget, so great that i'd repeat those times twice (kalo bisa. tapi ya gabisa). Trus sekarang gue kuliah dan jiwa gue masih ketinggalan di SMA, masih ketinggalan di Bandung. I feel it's hard for me to have peace with my own mind, to live the life that i have right now without looking back to the past. I've done repeating "ini hidup lo yang sekarang loh, cha. jalanin yang sekarang sehidup-hidupnya elo, jangan dikit-dikit ngebalik ke belakang" several times but it's just so.. hard? Like it's keep coming back into my thoughts.




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un-

12:23 AM

unconsciously, we were alterating
unwittingly, the more we tried; the messier it got
unstoppably, was how we were into each other; til distance happened
uncanny, how us is no longer you and i

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self-reminder; our reminder

10:10 PM

Nggak jarang kita diingatkan oleh tragedi ataupun orang lain untuk menyadari betapa berharganya diri kita sendiri. Quotes, iklan, masyarakat, lagu, media; selalu bilang pada kita untuk 'love yourself', 'you're worth it', 'you're beautiful', 'know your worth' dan kalimat sejenis lainnya. Tapi, kadang hal itu bikin kita lupa bahwa orang lain itu sama berharganya. Lupa juga bahwa kita ini sama, sederajat, dan setara. Lupa kalau mereka juga manusia yang punya perasaan, punya hati, punya self worth juga. Bukankah nggak sepatutnya kita mendegradasikan orang lain atas daerahnya, fisiknya, fashion sense-nya, gaya make-upnya, logat medoknya, ataupun isi dompetnya? Why do we even bother of ruining other people's self-worth expression, happiness, and choices? Well...i guess, perhaps that's the answer of question 'why won't we happy?'.

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possibility

10:59 AM




Tom Rosenthal - For You To Be Here

Dream big, they say

the city is too big for a small dream
dream the unexpected, they say
the city is already bored with common dreams

head up, look up
those skyscrapers were made to remind us,
human beings,
naive human beings,
to do something big,
to climb the invisible path,
to conquer the top
the top you wanted to reach
and once you've conquered it,
the city will be yours.
everything could be yours.

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5:47 PM

Menurut gue, loving ourselves is such huge steps to do. Some steps even feel so hard. Dan harus gue akui, mine isn't always going forward. Kadang proses itu berjalan maju, stagnan, atau mundur. I've been sure in my whole life that i don't listen what people will say about me, tapi buktinya gue memutuskan untuk turning off comment di postan instagram gue hari ini karena insecure about my frizzy hair and chubby cheeks and big thighs and fatty tummy on the pic. I usually reply the hate comments with making up some jokes about it, but at some point it's just exhausting. Kalo gue truly loving myself as the way it is, gue udah 100% persen ngepost puluhan foto yang selama ini pengen gue post without minding my pores, my hair or my acnes. Udah bodo amat orang mau komen badan gue gimana tanpa harus gue turning off comment option. Udah bodo amat sebodo bodonya, setolol tololnya, segoblok gobloknya. Besides, apa orang yang mencintai dan menerima dirinya sendiri 100% bener-bener exist di dunia yang cruel kayak gini?

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what people said

8:14 PM



some said i was greed,
i was disgraceful,
i was never satisfied,
some said this and that and blah and blah

i'd rather say i'm fighting for a dream.
a future.
a dream i've been dreamed since i was a kid.
even since i used to scared of dreaming of it.

people will always say something, afterall, no matter what choices we made.

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just another random thoughts

11:09 PM

Semakin aku gede, semakin aku ngerasa bahwa:


1. Bahagia itu mahal.
2. Bahagia itu sulit banget diciptakan.
3. Bahagia itu langka.
4. Bahagia itu relatif.
5. Dunia ini, somehow, jadi nggak se-exciting waktu aku kecil.
6. Being a grown-up sucks.
7. We shouldn't generalize a person as a bad or a good one.
8. Nothing's permanent, especially people.
9. Shit happens everyday and that's how life runs.
10. The older i grow, the more often i feel empty.