Minggu, 03 Mei 2015

Keyakinan dan Prasangka Baik


I keep the faith on you, you've promised me.
Banyak sekali nilai-nilai baik dari penerapan keyakinan dan prasangka baik. Terjadinya sesuatu yang buruk, boleh jadi dikarenakan kita tidak berprasangka baik terhadap sesuatu, tidak memiliki keyakinan yang kuat terhadapnya. Apabila kita yakin, kita akan selalu berprasangka baik. Memang dalam bersosial, berkeyakinan kepada manusia tidak bisa menjamin untuk menusia tersebut tidak merusak keyakinan kita terhadapnya. Tapi menurutku, tidak ada yang salah kita memiliki suatu keyakinan kepada manusia, karena keyakinan menumbuhkan prasangka yang baik. Toh apabila manusia merusak keyakinanmu, tidak menepati janji, itu bukan salahmu, kau tidak sedang berada di jalan yang salah untuk sudah menaruh kepercayaan dan berprasangka yang baik kepadanya. Bukan kamu yang akan menanggung akibatnya pada akhirnya, melainkan ia yang mengingkarinya, untuk merasa bersalah seumur hidupnya kecuali manusia tersebut menyesali kesalahannya dan tidak akan mengulanginya lagi. Keyakinan dan prasangka baik kita terhadap orang lain akan mendorong orang lain tersebut untuk tidak mengecewakan kita, memberikan pelajaran kepadanya bahwa betapa dia tidak seharusnya bersikap ingkar. Apabila kita telah dipercaya oleh seseorang, tidak seharusnyalah kita merusak kepercayaannya. Sebaliknya, kita harus berusaha menjaga kepercayaannya sesulit apa pun itu. Bertanggungjawab. Harga sebuah kepercayaan adalah mahal, karena manusia bukan Tuhan, bahwa betapa sulit membangun kepercayaan dan menumbuhkan prasangka baik. Orang lain menaruh kepercayaan kepada kita atas dasar kata hati orang tersebut bahwa dia melihat sesuatu yang baik dan tulus dalam diri kita sehingga dia yakin kepada kita. Manusia yang saling percaya satu sama lain, saling menopang dalam menjaga tegaknya kebenaran, adalah awal dari sebuah persatuan. Manusia-manusia yang bersatu adalah aset yang sangat berharga untuk menjadikan dunia lebih baik.

Keep thinking positive and you'll be fine.
Prasangka baik itu menyehatkan jiwa dan raga. Berprasangka baik terhadap segala sesuatu yang akan terjadi di masa depan memberikan kita kekuatan untuk melakukan hal baik hari ini karena kamu tidak sempat memikirkan hal-hal buruk yang bisa merusak pikiran dan keyakinan. Prasangka baik melapangkan jalanmu meraih cita-cita dan harapan, membuat jiwa menjadi tenang. Kamu berusaha dengan mantap, tidak setengah-setengah. Setelah itu, tentu saja sesuatu yang baik pada akhirnya akan terjadi. Aku juga percaya bahwa ada keterhubungan antara hati manusia dengan alam semesta, secara tidak langsung. Aku pernah mendengar hadits qudsi bahwa Tuhan berfirman "Aku (tergantung) prasangkaan hamba-Ku kepada-Ku", begitu karena aku beragama Islam. Kita yakin bila hal baik akan terjadi, maka ia akan benar-benar terjadi. Bila pun tidak terjadi seperti yang kita harapkan, hal tersebut adalah investasi akan kejadian selanjutnya, yang terbaik bagi kita.


Inspired by:

~ On Prince's Tale ~

Snape said,“Karkaroff intends to flee if the Mark burns."
"Does he?" said Dumbledore softly, as Fleur Delacour and Roger Davies came giggling in from the grounds. "And are you tempted to join him?"
"No," said Snape, his black eyes on Fleur's and Roger's retreating figures. "I am not such a coward."
"No," agreed Dumbledore. You are a braver man by far
than Igor Karkaroff. You know, I sometimes think we Sort too soon..."
He walked away, leaving Snape looking stricken.”

~ On football pitch after pinalty kick game ~

Jungsoo: Why do you not ask me about me and Taehwa Oppa? Just ask me, and I will tell you.
Songjoo:  I don't care about your past. It is enough that you are with me now. Hey, give me the box, I will fill it with something
Jungsoo: What is it?
Songjoo: I don't even know what it is.
Jungsoo: I know, faith.
Songjoo: When you say it's left side, I go to the left. When you say it's right side, I go to the right. I trust you without doubt.

~ Salman al Farisi ~

 "Pemuda yang jujur,” ujar Umar dengan mata berkaca-kaca, “Mengapa kau datang kembali padahal bagimu ada kesempatan untuk lari dan tak harus mati menanggung qishash?" 
Sungguh jangan sampai orang mengatakan,“ kata pemuda itu sambil tersenyum ikhlas,Tak ada lagi orang yang tepat janji. Dan jangan sampai ada yang mengatakan, tak ada lagi kejujuran hati di kalangan kaum Muslimin.“ 
"Dan kau Salman,” kata Umar bergetar, “Untuk apa kau susah-susah menjadikan dirimu penanggung kesalahan dari orang yang tak kau kenal sama sekali? Bagaimana kau bisa mempercayainya?" 
Sungguh jangan sampai orang bicara,“ ujar Salman dengan wajah yang teguh, Bahwa tak ada lagi orang yang mau saling membagi beban dengan saudaranya. Atau jangan sampai ada yang merasa, tak ada lagi rasa saling percaya di antara orang-orang Muslim.“ 
....

“Mengapa kalian tiba-tiba berubah fikiran?” tanya Umar pada kedua ahli waris korban.
Agar jangan sampai ada yang mengatakan, ” jawab mereka masih terharu, “Bahwa di kalangan kaum Muslimin tak ada lagi kemaafan, pengampunan, iba hati dan kasih sayang. "

Kamis, 23 April 2015

Beauty

Everytime I go travelling around Europe, I always see beautiful view, so much beautiful and well regulated.
It reminds me about what people say that I am lucky to witness all of what I have seen in this special continent.
Everytime I feel lucky, I remember my country. Our nation has a lot of things but there is also nothing much there.
The country, in which I am staying now, has nothing but there are so many things here. Because people here have nothing, they create everything by their own way, with a lot of efforts. They actualize something beautiful, something gorgeous, everything that you have ever imagined in your childhood wildest dream of your best fantasy ever.

But, every magnificent beauty will eventually stop right after your eyes. It seeps a few into your heart and your mind through your eyes to be bits of memory. You can't keep it nor grab it bodily. Otherwise, you ruin its beauty.

Vossendijk 219,
Saat Musim Semi



























Photos taken at Keukenhof, Lisse, The Netherland
19 April 2015
 

Sabtu, 04 April 2015

Hyperreality

Art or creativity can be a way of reflection. It characterizes people's culture and makes human become human being. It can also cause hyperreality towards people's expectation. Let's look how people's emotion is fluctuated when they watch romantic drama, when they listen to a song, when they read imaginary story. They can not take it off for long stretches of time and do it over and over again. Why are those things so interesting, so beautiful, so sad, so melancholic, so heartbreaking? It makes people live their life with their state of mind in limitless imagination. Is it fake emotion? How bad is it? Will it abolish love and harmony? If it is bad, is it that essential to get rid of them all? I ever told you that to this end, love still becomes substantial thing in people's life.

To this extent, people have expectation on one thing, dream of another thing, and imagine a better world to stay in order to keep their happiness inside heart and dispose of loneliness. That is how they live in such way to motivate themselves, to always move on. Paradoxically, hyperreality is fake and imaginary. It stops human to be the real human being. How bad is it if we continuously live in artificial and unauthentic world?

Still we have to use our mind to, at least, imagine it. We always need imagination, don't we?

Kamis, 02 April 2015

Tristeza

..From your eyes, I see tears roll down
I realized that sometimes life is hard
and crying at times are not all that unpleasant..


Senin, 09 Maret 2015

Clear

I don't have enemy and I will not let myself become anyone's enemy or have enemy. If there's misunderstanding between me and the people, I ensure to make it clear and finish the problem right away. I'll say out loud in front of them or even inside people's mind what I must say. This is the way I build my social life because this kind of interaction will make my life better than anything. No burden, no pain left. If I'm the one who's hurt, I will face the person who hurts me and say all the nice things so that the pain reaches its treshold and becomes klimaks until I can say that all is well in the end, that I am relieved enough to go on. For me, getting away is the worst thing that we must not do that. Life goes unfair sometimes, but it only happens in our mind. Actually, eveything in this life is on the way it comes back to an end. If not us doing it as the main role, we will let others to finish the problem with so much burdens because it doesn't belong to them from the beginning. Pity. So, be ready, everytime.

Rabu, 04 Maret 2015

Morning Conversations

#1


Wife: I read something in the novel, Crake said that we are hormone robot anyway. Do you agree? You never be too in love with me, aren't you?


Husband: Oh honey, look on the bright side. You've got to think positive!


Wife: Why don't you just answer me and counter it with good arguments? There is nothing wrong with having some thoughts.


Husband: I don't think I have to. Don't read something like that again. Your mind is your prison.


Wife: Then, what if I call you "Belahan jiwaku..", will you still be indifferent as ever?


Husband: I will still be like this. I will still be yours.


#2


Wife: Every time I open social media, there will always be people publish their selfie photos. Look! Even they are wide-veiled women and married women. I don't think intense selfie is good.


Husband: Just take a rest, honey, it's late at night there.


Wife: You know, I also become ill feel to DSW (an Indonesian artist) because I think her intensity of selfie is too high and severe. I tolerate those who selfie captured by others, not by themselves. At least other people don't want to capture someone frequently unless they are paid. But this, completely mental. I just don't get it why people like to do that. While physic is perishable, selfie is not kind of way to emerge our inner beauty. I avoid publishing my own photos because it doesn't make any sense to show off our beauty in lack-of-art way. That's why I appreciate those who want to improve their ability in photography. You know, people are going crazy nowadays.. their minds are going.


Husband: Let them be, they have the right to do so.


Wife: I think it's not something about right. I ever gave my friend here a selfie photo of beautiful woman from our country, for me she is beautiful. But my friend said, "In what part you say she is beautiful? I can't see any. Even you are more beautiful than her, you know." Then I realize, beauty can't be caught up only from an image. We have to know the people face to face, or at least we see them in the real situation.


(Then the husband was going to work)

Rabu, 11 Februari 2015

What my best friend said about me:

Nek kw ketok galak lho
Introvert
Pemikir..imajinatif..yg kdg asik dgn dirinya sendiri
Tdk mudah ditembus..wkwk
Dadi kw ki ky cewe high class
Kw ki kalem meneng tapi matamu mengawasi memperhatikan dan menilai
Intelek..
Dadi udu cewe2 sing mung ribut manja menye2
Positioning e duwur lah
Tp di satu sisi kw melo
Penilaianmu kdg antimainstream
Hal2 sing mgkn wong liyo ribut mgkn mlh ra mokreken
Tp sing kdg ra dipikirke wong kw ngagas
Nek ro cowo kw cukup pemalu
But your eyes tell everything ketika melihat seseorang yg menarik perhatianmu
Kw yo ckp wani mendobrak tradisi..logic
Is that true?
(Well I do not know if it's true, but as long as I can feel about myself, I would say yes for some of them. We have not seen almost a year as I departed abroad. He is my really best friend in campus and we always have kind of long lined conversation since our first meeting until now. We've gone along in a deep friendship that no one can know. I hope us being remained friend until the end of the time.)