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Persimpangan Jalan #JejakKeduapuluhtiga

Saya bingung. Saya merasa bahwa saya ini orang yang munafik. Mungkin lebih tepat jika orang lain mengira saya ini munafik. Pikiran ini pun masih terus beragumen hingga saat ini. Bukan terfokus pada munafik atau tidak, tetapi hal lain. Hal lain. Hal lain yang membuat saya berada di persimpangan jalan. Sendiri. Tanpa tahu ke mana harus melangkah. Ego dan logika masih belum menemukan jalan tengah. Membuat saya semakin terjebak dalam kebingungan. Wahai Tuan Nasib, Tolong berikan sedikit pertanda ke arah mana sebaiknya kaki ini melangkah. Jika tanda sudah diberikan, tolong buat saya tersadar. Sehingga saya akhirnya bisa berjalan dengan penuh keyakinan dan harapan. Amin.

A Daddy’s Letter to His Little Girl (About Her Future Husband)

Dear Cutie-Pie, Recently, your mother and I were searching for an answer on Google. Halfway through entering the question, Google returned a list of the most popular searches in the world. Perched at the top of the list was “How to keep him interested.” It startled me. I scanned several of the countless articles about how to be sexy and sexual, when to bring him a beer versus a sandwich, and the ways to make him feel smart and superior. And I got angry . Little One, it is not, has never been , and never will be your job to “keep him interested.”  Little One, your only task is to know deeply in your soul—in that unshakeable place that isn’t rattled by rejection and loss and ego—that you are worthy of interest. (If you can remember that everyone else is worthy of interest also, the battle of your life will be mostly won. But that is a letter for another day.) If you can trust your worth in this way, you will be attractive in the most important sense of the