footprints of life

Sejalan dengan hidup,

Semakin jelas bagiku…

Bagaimana hal-hal yang seharusnya terjadi,

Terjadilah.

Bagaikan kepingan teka-teki,

Sekeping demi sekeping,

Kan menjadi lukisan yang indah adanya,

Sekeping demi sekeping.

Tak peduli berapa lama,

Lika-liku perjalanannya,

Tikungan curam yang harus ditempuh,

Bagi alam untuk bisa memberikan jalan,

Akhirnya….terjadilah,

Saat-saat indah dalam waktu dan caranya sendiri.

Namun sebaliknya…

Beberapa hal…

Memang tak seharusnya terjadi.

Dan seberapapun beratnya usaha,

Dan seberapapun besarnya inginmu untuk membuatnya berhasil,

Akhirnya….

Haruslah terima…

Terima saja….

Karena kepingan itu memang bukan bagian dari lukisanmu…

Tak ada tempat bagi kepingan itu di dalam teka-tekimu…

Terima saja…

Dan temukan kepingan-kepingan lain

Yang akan menyatu dengan indah.

Dan indah adanya,

Teka teki hidupmu sendiri,

Sekeping demi sekeping.

English version is here 

kali ini…aku mau mainstream ajah…

setelah selalu mengambil pilihan yang dianggap "aneh" atau "nganeh-anehi", kali ini aku akan ambil sebuah pilihan yang secara logis akan diambil siapapun yang dihadapkan pada pilihan ini…

ya, kali ini, aku mau ambil pilihan yang biasa-biasa aja.   

still with the same guy, at the same airport as my previous posting (in Javanese).

one part of the conversation following the one with "polygamy" in it, he followed with the statement, "By the way, you should be careful with your partner."

"Hm, why?"

"Because he’s a German."

"So, what’s wrong with a German?  Is he more prone to polygamy than any other nationality, or what?" just trying to make conversation…gosh, I know my partner, btw.

"Come on.. have you never heard about nazi, Hitler?"

what the f**k??!!

Good Lord, please forgive them for they do not know what they are talking about.

if only he knew that it was Indonesians who were proudly wearing the nazi swastika (not the Hindhu one, mind you) on their T-shirts, or military-green jackets on the way out dining…or put up posters of Hitler in cafes thinking that it’s such a cool poster….that it was a very popular front runner of a band who wore a black t-shirt with a white nazi swastika in a video clip which appeared every single day at the end of a very popular soap opera….without having any clue what it represents for some populations…

if only he knew how my partner would start cursing under his breath everytime he sees such ignorant people proudly brandishing their jackets…

if only he knew how people have nothing to do with something horrible in the past of their nation.

does that make us feel better?  being "tolerant" Indonesians who question other people’s beliefs and principles?  who implied that people are wrong because they are different from us? don’t you think we have nothing in our own history that should have made us feel ashamed of ourselves?

yeah, right. and as they called the passengers in, i could only saved my breath for myself.  yeah right…

if only we are all a little bit wiser…. yeah, right… 

wah, saiki kabeh-kabeh ngomongke "Ayat-Ayat Cinta"…. seko milist, blog, nganti bandara…

lho…la kok?

sak jane aku pancen penasaran karo film-e.  seko iklan sing ning endi-endi ning TV, rak kethok wonge do mlaku-mlaku ning padang pasir, jarene le syuting ning India barang, wah mestine apik ki.  ning pancen luwih seko kuwi aku ora penasaran, soale arep po nonton ping selikur buntet, aku yo ora bakalan mudeng karo critane, wong aku ki ora mudeng sing jenenge poligami. 

eh, la kok ngerti-ngerti aku malah ditakoni karo konco kantor.  ndilalahe kepethuk ning bandara Jakarta wingi sore, pas arep mangkat ning BA.  mbuh saka ngendi, kok ngerti-ngerti dheweke takon, "Wis nonton AAC?"

"Durung," wangsulanku.

"Wah, rugi kowe. Apik tenan," semangat banget bocahe.  eh, meh lali, iki bocah lanang lho ya.  "Kuwi pancen poligami sing ideal."

"Ideal? yo cetha ideal no, sijine rak mati, bearti kan ending-endinge wonge tetep monogami to…yo bener, ideal kuwi.."

kethoke bocahe ki ra patio mudeng aku arahe ning endi.  dheweke malah takon maneh, "Nek kowe dhewe piye, setuju ora nek dipoligami?"

aku ngguyu ngekek karo komentar, "La wong koyo ngono mbok takok’ke."  nek nggo aku pitakonan koyo ngono ora usah ditakok’ke.

malah dheweke nyambung meneh, "La nek alasane jelas. Umpama, kowe ora iso nafkahi lair batin, rak mesak’e bojomu, piye jal?"

"Wah, yo ora iso."

"La kok kowe egois men? Kuwi rak alasane jelas lan kuat to?"

"Egois?  La memange wong omah-omah ki urusane mung kuwi thok? Omah-omah ki rak akeh urusan’e."

"Pancen dudu sing utama, tapi kan penting banget."

"Nek aku yo tetep ora iso.  Opo meneh nek arep melu agama, ning agamaku diajari nek wong omah-omah kuwi yo wong lanang siji, wong wedhok siji, ning ngarepe Gusti. wis. titik."

"Walah, nek ono wong lanang sing iso nampa kowe apa anane nganggo prinsip koyo ngono ki yo hebat."

"La yo pancen aku nggolek’e wong lanang sing iso koyo ngono to..ngopo golek wong lanang sing ora iso koyo ngono? mestine rak yo isih ana sing iso…" 

aku ki malah tambah gedhek-gedhek… egois ora gelem dipoligami? weleh…weleh…anggere poliandri yo oleh wae…yo ra popo….hehehehe….. 

eh, mana tebakannya nih?

bagian kedua dari posting sebelumnya, yang ini…

ya udah deh..kalau terlalu susah, aku kasih clue-cluenya….

ayo, ada yang lainnya?