Some Lines of Poetry from "the sun and her flowers"

Beberapa hari terakhir, gw baru selesai baca bukunya Rupi Kaur yang judulnya “the sun and her flowers”. Sebenernya udah dari Maret 2019 gw punya bukunya. Tapi seperti biasa, baru mood baca beberapa waktu ini.

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Gw pertama kali tau Rupi Kaur itu dari @oursharedshelf-nya Emma Watson. Liat beberapa puisinya dan menurut gw bagus. Akhirnya follow IG-nya Rupi Kaur dan ended up beli dua bukunya, “milk and honey” dan “the sun and her flowers” di Periplus.

Ini salah satu tulisan yang gw suka dari “the sun and her flowers”:

it has been one of the greatest and most difficult years of my life. i learned everything is temporary. moments. feelings. people. flowers. i learned love is about giving. everything. and letting it hurt. i learned vulnerability is always the right choice because it is easy to be cold in a world that makes it so very difficult to remain soft. i learned all things come in twos. life and death. pain and joy. salt and sugar. me and you. it is the balance of the universe. it has been the year of hurting so bad but living so good. making friends out of strangers. making strangers out of friends. learning mint chocolate chip ice cream will fix just about everything. and for the pains it can’t there will always be my mother’s arms. we must learn to focus on warm energy. always. soak our limbs in it and become better lovers to the world. for if we can’t learn to be kind to each other how will we ever learn to be kind to the most desperate parts of ourselves.

Gw paling suka kalimat terakhir. Kalau kita gak bisa belajar untuk bersikap baik ke orang lain, gimana caranya kita bisa belajar untuk bersikap baik pada bagian diri kita yang sebenernya paling butuh diperhatikan. Tiap orang pasti berbeda, karena hal yang udah dilalui pun pasti berbeda. Let’s be kind! kepada orang lain ataupun kepada diri sendiri :)

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