Monday, December 19, 2022

Catatan Proses Mendewasa: 18 dan 19 Desember 2022

Penghujung tahun. Satu minggu sebelum menginjakkan kaki di usia baru, harus dihadapkan dengan situasi kehilangan salah satu orang terdekat. Meski bukan keluarga, tapi beliau rasanya sudah seperti keluarga sendiri. Sebelum almarhum berpulang, diriku pribadi sebenarnya sudah berhadapan dengan masalah pergejolakan batin akan masa depan (lebay, ya? Semoga tidak). Situasi sedang tidak ideal buat sok-sok yakin dengan perasaan yang ada saat ini.

Mau pede, takut kepedean. Alias kalau jatuh, ya, sakit. Kalau nggak pede, ya, harus berani merelakan. Kemungkinan berhasil dan gagalnya sama-sama 50:50. Sebenarnya, atas situasiku sekarang tinggal pilih ya atau tidak saja, tapi, lagi-lagi, nggak semudah itu, Ferguso. Puncaknya ketika almarhum berpulang, aku semakin yakin, bahwa nggak ada juga gunanya memaksakan kondisi ideal saat ini, mau pilih ya atau tidak, rasanya untuk sementara waktu, bukan hal yang tepat untuk dibahas. Mungkin nanti, ketika situasi sudah lebih stabil.

Pasalnya, ada banyak pertimbangan mengapa memilih ya dan tidak terasa sama-sama berat. Di ambang kebimbangan ini, kepulangan almarhum, di satu sisi, seolah menjadi titik terang, bahwa masih ada upaya yang dapat dilakukan: take it slow. Sepulang dari pemakaman, dapat kesempatan meluapkan isi hati ke salah seorang kerabat bernama Rex. Surprisingly, pembicaraannya cukup berfaedah. Sebenarnya, kesimpulan pembicaraannya sama, take it slow, dan jalani mana yang diyakini. 

Orang lain bisa kasih saran, tapi yang menjalani yang lebih paham. Nasihat umum, memang. Tapi, kali ini, lebih ngena. Mungkin karena momennya. Aku bilang ke Rex bahwa kekhawatiran utamaku adalah takut kepedean. Lagi-lagi, aku merasa, bisa jadi saran-saran yang kuterima dari orang lain itu ada benarnya, hanya saja, aku yang belum bisa melihat kebenaran dibaliknya. 

Hal ini membuatku jadi indecisive alias tidak bisa berbuat apa-apa dan malah menjadi selalu ragu untuk mengambil keputusan sesuai kata hatiku. I mean, what if I'm wrong and they are right? Aku takut kepedean, ketika aku melaju saja mengikuti kata hati, bisa jadi aku tersungkur jauh dan menjilat ludah sendiri. Tapi Rex bilang, "...menurut gue, gapapa, Dhe, kalau di masa depan kita 'kejilat ludah' sendiri. Di situ, menurut gue, proses pendewasaannya." (Rex, 2022)

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Entry ini memang penceritaannya tidak gamblang, ya. Mohon maaf kalau ternyata yang baca jadi bingung. Intinya, bukan apa yang menjadi permasalahan di sini, tapi garis besar dari pemaknaannya, menurutku bisa diaplikasikan untuk hal apapun. Aku belajar dari Rex untuk jangan takut ambil risiko, bahwa ini hidupku, bukan hidup orang lain. Kalau aku salah, biarkan aku salah sendiri karena menjalani pilihanku. 

Asal tidak semata-mata menjalani nasihat orang lain yang mungkin sebenarnya bermanfaat banyak, tapi bisa jadi saat ini akunya yang belum paham. Meski deep down aku tahu bahwa nasihat mereka nggak ada maksud buruk sama sekali, mereka cuma mau menyelematkanku dari keputusan-keputusan yang konyol atau salah. Tapi, toh, yang paling tahu adalah yang akan menjalani, kan? 

Kamu yang punya hidup, kamu yang paling tahu daya regangmu seberapa. Kalau pun salah, ya, gapapa, bersiap saja untuk merasakan jatuhnya, tapi jangan sampai disesali dan bikin ke depannya kamu jadi nggak percaya diri untuk memilih tujuan hidup kamu, apapun itu.

Kalau kata Ben Platt, "Grow as we go." In my case, bismillah saja. Kalau nyamannya begini, ya, dijalani dulu saja. Tuhan yang paling tahu. Yang terpenting buatku, aku minta tiap langkah kakiku dibimbing YME saja, rasanya sudah lebih dari cukup. Karena, apapun yang nantinya bakal terjadi, rasanya bukan menjadi sebuah kesalahan, tapi konsekuensi dari ikhtiar dan petunjuk dari Tuhan.

Ya, proses mendewasa tanggal 18 dan 19 Desember 2022 ini memang luar biasa. Penuh air mata, yang campur nggak tahu lagi itu air mata sedih, haru, atau bahagia. Yang pasti, ada semuanya. In the end, bersyukur. Dikasih hidup seperti ini, dipertemukan dengan orang-orang yang suportif. Yang masih hidup dan yang sudah berpulang, semuanya punya pengaruh baik dalam tumbuh kembangku sebagai insan yang belum utuh. I'm unfinished, I've got so much left to learn.

Terima kasih, Tuhan. Terima kasih orang-orang yang aku nggak bisa sebutin di entry ini, saking bersyukurnya aku atas kehadiran kalian di hidupku. Let's grow as we go.

Tuesday, October 25, 2022

TRUE LOVE

True love is silent.

True love makes sense.


True love is invisible

True love understands.

Tuesday, May 31, 2022

A Visit

Hi, it's really been a while since my last post. 

I do miss writing down my life events and my emotions here, but as you know, 2021 was a year of hurricanes amidst the pandemic to me. I do not know where to begin. Perhaps the closest thing I can start with is from August 2021. Not long after my last entry, one of my friends passed away. She was, in fact, close to me. We went to the same uni, went to the same workplace, lived in the same neighbourhood, and went to work together almost every day.

So you can imagine what it was like to lose her. My colleagues at work and I knew that was bound to happen. Her death was predictable. From March to August 2021, she was so frail, so sick, that it was almost impossible for her to carry her workload. The sickness seemed to consume her own body. She was skinny, we could see that clearly. She suffered, and the last thing we can do for her is to let her rest and asked her not to come to the office.

On August 12th, 2021, she left us. Without knowing who she was with at the time of her death, we rushed to find whatever information we can use to deal with the situation. What we imagined was her, all alone, with no one beside her death bed. Fortunately, she was with her aunt. She was buried in her childhood home, near the grave of her mother. After her death, I couldn't keep myself together for about two weeks. As soon as I was able to stand on my feet again, work came rolling in like waves. The rest of the remaining members in my office also had to deal with the emotional breakdown while trying to survive the current.

Months after that I gave birth to a new social initiative. It was indeed, one of the best things I won't regret doing, but at the same time, once again I had to deal with separation from my partner in crime at work. He left to pursue his dream to become an artist. After his departure, I had to run the division all by myself. It was supposed to be a lonely feeling, but thank God, I have the best support system to catch me when I fall.

Long story short, the office moved to a new place (to leave the past behind and start anew), and I moved out to live with my aunt. I couldn't tell you enough how grateful I am to have lived this life now. More than ever, I love everything about it. The good, the bad, the pretty, and the ugly. 2021 made me experience loss in ways I could never imagine, I wasn't just facing the death of loved ones, but leaving and being left, to change and adapt, to move forward and be open to whatever will happen next, to be joyful, even at times and events I haven't understood yet. What I am now is just trying to survive, day by day, and hoping to get out of it alive, well, hopeful, and lively.

I think I've become a more jovial person. To realize that this life is so short and all you have could just disappear in a blink of an eye. I learn to love without borders, love with no limit, and spread the love to whoever or whatever is around me. While life is starting to get smoother, I found an old friend's blog. I was surprised to see how she's still writing on that blog. I never told her this, but she is the reason I love writing and having a blog to pour down my emotion. 

This entry was inspired by her blog. I know in real life we're not close anymore, but by seeing her writings I could see her the same way I knew her from the first time we became friends. No... It's not like we're not friends anymore, just, parting our own ways. I'd like to believe that the "separation" was mutual and natural (just like one of my friends told me yesterday), but this is not the case. I think there are things we've never got to say to each other, that went on for a long time until it is "naturalized." And we became okay with it. It's not okay, okay?

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Hey, you know who you are, and I hope you're still visiting. 

If you ever find this post, I really want to reconnect. And I wish I am brave enough to say it to your face, but I think I'm still the same old coward. Ha! Aren't we the same? Anyway, I don't know where you live now, but all I want to say is that we're all grown up now. Whatever we had in the past, I do not take that personally. And I am sorry if I never talk to you about it. I wished we made time to speak our minds, 'cause look at us now. I refuse to say that we are strangers, you know. And learning from what I've experienced last year, I do not want us to be strangers until the arrival of our time.

I miss you. Call me back if you see this.


Love always,

D