Kami yang Menyangka

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Kami menyangka melihat dunia. Lewat layar-layar kecil yang mengudara.

Kami menyangka tahu perkara. Lewat satu dua kalimat pembuka.

Kami menyangka yang terbuka. Lewat refrain lagu tentang isu radikal.

Kami menyangka yang terdepan. Lewat artikel investasi, logam-logam mulia, surat reksadana, dan pengaturan finansial. Oh, juga surat-surat hutang.

Kami menyangka yang terhebat. Lewat checklist-checklist panjang dalam resume. Foto-foto penanda. Peta-peta berwarna. Konser-konser di bawah hujan.

Kami menyangka yang berbeda. Lewat kepedulian tentang diri kami, masa depan dunia, tentang pendapat-pendapat oposisi.

Kami hanya sedikit tentang cerita.

Halo, para pemuda 20-an. Dari sekian juta pertanyaan di dunia, yang mana yang ingin dipilih ketika bertemu?
Oh, rupanya yang itu-itu saja.

Selamat malam, selamat melukis peta dunia.

All Those Bad Things

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I have been an avid TV Series viewer. I have watched dozen of TV Series before. The one that is been cancelled, the one that took my breath away, or the one that bore you after 3 seasons (I am talking about you, Revenge). For me, there is few series that I like a lot. The one that entertained me for its brilliant lines, like How I Met Your Mother, 2 Broke Girls, The Newsroom, etc. The one that makes me want to write about it because its depth and how interesting it is to be discussed. Sherlock, The Simpsons, and Game of Thrones are fitted for the criteria. And there is few that so undeniably beautiful and you can’t stop thinking about it. For me the first one is LOST and then this, Breaking Bad.

Okay, the premise of Breaking Bad is already interesting enough. A high school chemistry teacher turns drugs kingpin by cooking crystal methamphetamine (shortly meth) after he diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer in order to provide for his family after he is gone. Partnered up with his junkie former student, they take on the ride to journey they have never expected before.

I haven’t watched any episodes of this drama series until the last month of 2013. The show itself already started 6 years ago at 2008 on AMC, gained strong fan base ever since and suddenly become everybody’s favorite TV show (including Barack Obama and Warren Buffet). It is like a snowball effect. Everybody is telling how good the show is, and new fans arise, trying to catch up with its latest episode. Breaking Bad aired its episode finale on September 2013. The mind blowing fact here, the show has 62 episodes. Try to guess the 62nd element on periodic table. It is Samarium, which is essential in the treatment of bone pain with lung cancer.

If you asked me what one thing that makes such phenomenon, you can read here. The article pretty much listed all possible answers on why people love Breaking Bad. But for me, it is more than that.

Honestly, I can’t even define it. I don’t have any resembles with any character on the show. I even don’t know any of the cast before (I end up watching all interview of Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul on YouTube after finishing the series, from Kimmel to Fallon, Leno to O’Brien). I even barely know who Vince Gilligan is (but surely excited to wait his next work). At the end of season 1, we know that the series is going to be a good show. It is funny and brutal at the same time. It teaches us how mercury fulminate can blows up a room and how you can dissolve a body with sulfuric acid (which turned out to be busted on Mythbuster special episode of Breaking Bad, but we all forgive it). Turns out, Breaking Bad catches me off guard on how the show can be so menacingly dark and, like the blue meth Walt and Jesse cook, addicting.

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Yours

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…and yeah the social media. I am not an avid user of social media, but I find it a useful tool to everyday life. If you use it wisely. Ever heard this sentence?

“We buy things we don’t need with money we don’t have to impress people we don’t like.”

FYI, it is actually a quote from Dave Ramsey on one of his financial book.

Other opinion about the vast grow of social media is people trying too hard to show the world how interesting their life is. They take picture about the food they eat, telling people what movie they watch, they show map of the place they are at or a place they visit at holiday, etc. When I was 22, I might be judgmental about these kind of stuff. Now, I learned about seeing it on a much much bigger picture than I already saw.

Life is interesting.

Life should be interesting.

If your life is boring enough to live up, it is your problem. And if your life is so exciting to live up, you should be thankful. It is a choice to share it with the rest of people or keeping it by yourself. It is none of your problem, to give a damn with other people’s choices.

Like I said so many times, what you see is still the half of the story.

Para Penghapus Sejarah

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Ketika senja tiba dan matahari mulai terlahap kegelapan malam, sesosok mahkluk menyelinap di antaranya. Ia menapak di tanah, tidak seperti para peri yang memanfaatkan sayap mereka yang berkilau.

Ia mendatangi setiap rumah dan membisikkan sebuah cerita bohong tentang masa lalu. Ia membisikkan kata-kata itu setiap harinya sampai penduduk desa lupa akan cerita yang benar-benar terjadi. Mengabur bersamaan dengan datangnya fajar, tertinggal lewat asap-asap yang menguap dari telinga mereka. Para penghapus sejarah membawa asap-asap tersebut, meniupkannya ke lubang-lubang tanah di hutan atau palung-palung terdalam lautan.

Dan ketika matahari mulai meninggi, tidak ada yang tahu akan apa yang terjadi di masa lalu. Hanya gores-gores samar tentang cerita baru yang ditulis terbalik. Tentang pahlawan-pahlawan yang tidak berjasa, yang menyelinap untuk merapat cahaya. Tentang kejadian yang tidak bermakna. Tentang semua ingatan yang tidak akan kembali.

The Lost Child

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I didn’t grow up.

I am child who won’t grow up.

I fly.

I put dust into my feet and, just fly.

Sometimes I just jumped between buildings, finding myself up in the cloud.

I soar through the sky, between the stars and the constellation.

If you ask me why I’m still doing that. I just haven’t found the reason not to.

People always told you to grow up. Let me tell you this.

Tell them, never.