Hello.. It’s been a while for me to write a post. I don’t know why I lost my appetite to write, especially write about how I feel. My sister says in Memoirs of Geisha, it’s better to write it off when you feel better. Though I’m not sure I feel better from my broken heart yet or not, but I write anyway, right? So, it’s not a big deal.
Here I am again and I’m really on talking about LOVE. All people talking about it today, millions of articles are available when you type it in Google, I mean seriously, more than a quarter people around the world have the thinking as I do, and it’s a universal language. Half think the same, but not applying love because of their ‘sicknesses’. While other quarter busy to fill their stomach and don’t have time to think about it, but these people usually are the one who apply this language beyond their conscious mind, well they fill their family stomach in any ways because of love, right? The point is all of that fact proves that love is a universal language after all.
Hm.. I’m not talking about my broken heart here or how much I love this guy (seriously, I’m trying hard not to), but lately I found that I’m a human being who have a lot of love to give (after I broke up, I don’t know where this love should go, my family and friends already have their portion), though I just realize that after I broke up, but in fact this love I have is always been there, in the storage room and once I open it, I have a heaven (instead of ‘hell' I prefer heaven) lot of love to share. Well, I believe each of us have this storage, can you imagine how much love we have? Infinite.
I never understand when Mandy Moore sings Someday We’ll Know and she said “love can move the mountain”. Well, all I know in Indonesia, love can create a mountain, Tangkuban Perahu, and a tample, Perambanan. And just so you know human heart is as strong as a diamond and as soft as the air at the same time, how? I’ll ask God in heaven later. If you see someone so cold that you think they’re heartless, just remember, their heart is still there in a different form, it’s frozen. Every human being have a heart, if they haven’t, they won’t be here by now since the heart the organ which pumps the blood to keep you alive, just an intermezzo. So, we are all have a heart, and love come from the heart, in other words, we’re all have love. We might be different, but admit it; we have something in common here. Hehe. Love, a magical word and an infinite power, it’s boneless and borderless. I’ll help you understand it later.
Okay, now let’s get to the main topic. Today I’ll discuss about love to my beloved country, Indonesia. Since I was in high school, my family always discuss about this country, the history, herstory, past, present, future condition, and so on and so on. Most of them based on our criticism, and we always try to find solution, as if we were the government. The fact, we were not, so the solution turns into dream “if I was the president I would, blah blah blah” but then, still nothing happen. As time goes by, for my family, this discussion become an old school and I think somehow bring negative impact. I’m starting to turn my back on this country, I don’t care of what happening to my country as much as I don’t care when sinetron Cinta Fitri will be ended. Seriously, news is like buzzing things on the scenario, the government and this country’s problems which being publish on the news just a plot. People hurting each other, bombing everywhere, a president being panic and saying he’s the target for terrorist operation because of his picture in terrorist training video (while Iran’s president remain calm after the bombing across the street which can blow his head up anytime), congress member yelling each other when they’re awake, college student (which will be the next generation to lead this country) cursing about small things in twitter (including me sometimes) and complaining their own country and everything within, again, in twitter.
Ironically, they read it man! The whole world hears what we’re yelling: frustration. I’ve been told once about being positive, what you say is the state of mind, and it become something real when you believe it, this man who taught me this is an inspiration, he’s not a motivator, but an inspirator (if this word exist of course), he’s Mr. Onggy. Believe it or not, based on this theory (you guys might also know about the power of positive thinking, law of attraction, and the Secrets) I conclude that every bad things I say about this country, will become my belief and in the next 10 years, this country will remain the same, no improvement, why? Because I believe so, back then. A couple days ago, I’m thinking about what the use of cursing Jakarta’s traffic is, or how the rain can drowned Jakarta just because our stupid bureaucracy (remember that’s how I curse, back then). By screamin that, I feel nothing better, Jakarta still stuck with the traffic, flood everywhere on heavy rain, monorail project on goin zero progress, and a motorcycle still crushed by a busway just because he hit their line, man!
I know I should change my way of thinking, but how can I feel optimist about this country if those facts happened in my own land? Trust me, there are nothing we can do (directly) about that, we are all has role and function, and trusts me, as the citizen, cursing will only decrease our productivity in the system. Thus, cursing won’t help me, you, and our beloved country. We won’t feel optimistic by cursing and complaining (well, it’s fun, I admit. But it’s killing you and makes you wanna kill others.), right? By saying negative thing, you down low yourself, other, and the whole world, oh and you make a negative belief which will be reality. On the other hand, this law also applied for the positive words, it’ll make you and other feel good and make a positive belief which can be a reality. But we need a greater power to change the way of thinking from negative into positive, and do you still remember our first topic? Yes, that power is LOVE.
Okay, forget about loving this country first, most of us might have forgotten this feeling towards this country, the fact that we feel bored in Monday ceremony proves it -___-‘. Now, imagine someone you love, soo much. Someone that you think you cannot live without, someone who has flaw things within but you accept them, someone who makes you wanna do anything for them disregarding they’ll do the same in return. It could be Mom, Dad, sisters, brothers, Granny, Grandpa, kids, wife, husband, boyfriend, girlfriend, best friends, anyone. You got them in mind?
Now imagine, your beloved one lying on their bed because of they’re illness. Let say they got this disease (oh, Lord it’s just analogy, don’t make this a reality, okay?) and others ignore them; turn their back on the one we love. What will you do? Curse them because they smell bad, their skin dried, they look awful, and you’re the one who have to pay for the doctor? Or you will pay anything; you’ll give everything you have for their lives, and still give your love and encouragement to help them get better or even just to see them smile again? A normal human being will choose the second option. For those who choose first option, dear you’ll find someone who makes you choose number two one day, don’t give up. Anyway, you choose number two, because of love, see how boneless and borderless it was?
This is the worst case of our country, but somehow it’s not that bad, really. Unless, we keep cursing it, then it will be like on the study case above. Lying on bed, waiting for the grim ripper come and took its life. No, I won’t let it be like that. Now, the theory will be simple and create a cycle, you just need to put your tip of finger on it and you’re all in. To create a positive belief about this country we need a great love, to create a great love, we need a small one to be grown, to grow ‘em we need to say positive things that we love about this country, sincerely. Remember, love is sincere, whenever you say it or write it those who sense it with their five sense also sense it with their hearts. I’m not asking you guys to give everything you have (as in material things) to this country, we’re not communist, and I’m not asking you to switch your love towards your parents into this country, no. I’m asking you to open your love storage, and give a bit (just a little, a drop, I swear it’s enough) to this country by saying and write at least one good thing or anything you love about this country a day, sincerely, not cynically (it only makes you look even more “not smart”).
Let’s make it as a movement, like Get Lost in Indonesia campaign. I think it’s brilliant, thus it inspires me to say anything I love about Indonesia. Whatever you guys call it, any kind of movement you’re into, just do it. For this one, the idea is you can spread at least ONE GOOD THING THAT YOU LOVE ABOUT INDONESIA A DAY. You can write and say it in Twitter, Plurk, Facebook, Kaskus thread, Super Junior thread, any threads, mail groups, other Internet facilities or you can say it to your little baby sister, brother, family, friends, teacher, boss, stranger on the street, other stranger on the train or bus stop, taxi driver, janitor, anyone, seriously ANYONE. It also can be a perfect way to start your day in Indonesia with love. Who knows you can find soul mate just because you both have a common in things you love in Indonesia, right? We’ll never know.
Well, what know is I believe, once we love our country we’ll do anything for it, no matter what people say about it we’ll keep loving it, all the good things become great, all the bad things become the reason to love it more, just like a first love, every second is a bless. I hope you join me after you read this post. Spread the love, spread the positive. It is true what Winalite owner says: Love is a boneless power. We could learn this language (love) anywhere, but we also have to spread it everywhere, in this context we start here, in our country. :)
-In Indonesia, with love-
