Living Like a Tree

Have you ever think -- or at least a glance in your mind about the life of a tree?

I was about preparing my final thesis, studying plants (yeah, it may sound weird for some of you) when a flash idea suddenly popped out between my massive headache at those struggling days. 

What comes up when you hear this word: Tree?

Frankly and weirdly it means a lot for me. By ignoring the fact that trees and forests are my research topic and I myself nearly became crazy of it, trees are there, at my interest. 

I will not preach about those stack of plants life or metabolisms or transportation or nutrition or cell communication or even gases exchanging (fakyea my thesis!). They are freaky.

But take a deeper look on these:

1. No matter how tremendous the storms are, a tree will always stand tall after all. Storms might destroy some parts of a tree, but life must go on, life continue...

2. After the rain, a tree will be refreshed and recharged. It is gloomy, yet somehow, a tree needs a little rain to feel more brand new, to release the waste. Analogous to human tears, no?

3. Trees can live both in group or solitary. Furthermore, they don't depend one another to live.

4. They do competition. To gain nutrition, light, water, and air. This is where the theory of survival of the fittest rules. They do competition fairly. They don't need to kill one another to be the fittest, nature does. All the tree has to do is just do its best.

5. A tree will stay deeply rooted while reaching for the sky. No matter how tall it will be, the 'feet' always on the ground.

6. A tree absorbs what-they-say-as-a-waste: carbon dioxide. Accept and process them into more useful form. As a sweet 'revenge', tree will release oxygen needed by nearly all living things. A lesson about sincerity

7. Tree provides a shelter, even to strangers. From herbs, small plants, animals to human. 

8. Tree will survive and always be prepared for the changing seasons. There's no such a thing like "I'm not ready for the changes".

9. Tree will always take positive energy. Soak up the sun no matter how terrible the sun light.

10. And after all, a tree lives in harmony and balance with nature.

Happy World Forest Day, for you who care :)

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picture taken from here

#randomthoughts

During these days, I've been a listener to my friends of mine's murmurs. Since I had more times catching up with them as I moved to Jakarta in few months, I've been providing my ears (or my eyes if we're having an indirect conversation through mobile) to be told to. I found myself, I'm not a good problem-solver. I never learned any serious psychological lessons in my past life (might be a little as I learned about organisms). 


But, I tried to analyze this. That problems are worse when you think about it over and over, even worse when you have nothing to do with it. Then, the saying that "Problems are less painful when you share" will have no sense. That problems are just the matter of a perspective and the rest is just how good you play with it. Haha, I know I'm also a vulnerable human being that sometimes I lose my grip and fragile. If one asking me how good I deal with problems that come, I'll probably answer, I don't really know. Once I had problem, the next thing I know was everything got better itself as I tried to fix as much as I can (no matter how good or how poor I tried) and the rest was just let it flow and it is your environment, your friends, the atmosphere play a role. At least that's how I survived my life so far.


Overthinking is shitty, the one that you can control in, blackhole of mess you can't resist. Believe me, everyone has it in lifetime, even a cool motivator or a preacher has the 'right' to overthink, I'm sure. But my friend, life can never be so easy, life can be unfair. But whining gain nothing, overthinking will just lead you nowhere if there's no way to get out and conquer, you possess. Do not harm people around you by thinking they don't understand what you feel. If they are more like shit to you, just make it fuck them as a joke, make it funnier or take their positive energy (if you want to).


Whoa, this is just my own thoughts, for sure. In my 23, I learned that happiness is not a goal, happiness is created along our way to reach the goal itself by our own and more importantly, to be happy or not to be, it's in your hand.
Oh yes, I had been working on my laptop for hours then I ended up with one article in Whiteboard Journal: Happiness According to Alfred Hitchcock (a British film director, producer). Here's the interesting line that came up from him: 

“Happiness is when you have a clear horizon, when all negative emotions are removed you can look forward, the road is clear ahead and now you’re going to create something. I think that’s as happy as I would ever want to be.” 

and here's the video:

Because traveling is watching people passing by, but trying to keep you stay, at least, on my mind.

Suvarnabhumi Airport, Bangkok, 2011 

"After long long time, listening to Efek Rumah Kaca is like taking a time machine, dwelling on the things happened 3 years ago, it was sweet."

The same feeling I sense when I re-listen to The Adams or Pure Saturday. Realizing that they are one of my life parts, remembering that I was fine then. Though I'm not really sure most of you are familiar with this bands. But you know, I spent my school years and my time being teenager, falling in love with a boy with this kind of music covered up my head.

Selalu ada yang bernyanyi dan berelegi
Dibalik awan hitam
Smoga ada yang menerangi sisi gelap ini,
Menanti..
Seperti pelangi setia menunggu hujan reda

Aku selalu suka sehabis hujan dibulan desember,
Di bulan desember

Sampai nanti ketika hujan tak lagi
Meneteskan duka meretas luka
Sampai hujan memulihkan luka

(Desember, Efek Rumah Kaca)

#firstworldproblem

Barusan ngobrol sama temen, dia bilang ada buku ini dan dia lagi order langsung dari NG. Karena gue orangnya gampang terpengaruh, sampe rumah langsung lah gue searching buku ini di NG. Ternyata gue menemukan sebuah fakta bahwa untuk books & DVD lagi ada diskon 25% + free shipping (kalo minimum purchase $50). TUHAN, COBAAN INI TERLALU BERAT. Tempting sekali karena pertama harga asli bukunya ga terlalu lebay dibanding buku-buku best seller yg lain (yang harganya bisa sampe $40 an, kayak buku inceran 2 orang temen gue Andriani dan Abraham), kedua gue sendiri belom pernah nemuin ini di Indonesia (karena mungkin emang bukan best seller). Terakhir kalo ga salah pernah liat ini waktu ke NG Store Singapur, dan yang ketiga adalah buku ini tentang Himalaya. 

Sejak gue (terpaksa) nonton Into Thin Air 8 tahun lalu waktu awal-awal masuk ELPALA, terus akhirnya terpengaruh baca bukunya. Himalaya, Tibet, dan Nepal selalu menarik buat ditelusuri lebih detil (tapi bukan untuk dinaikin karena aing mah ga bakal kuat kayaknya haha). Oh iya yang suka buku + film-film beginian, Into Thin Air bagus banget. Bagi yang udah nonton 127 Hours di mana pemeran utamanya adalah mantan pacar majikan gue (James Franco, red), ya konfliknya mirip-mirip lah dan sama-sama based on true story. Cuma bedanya kalo 127 Hours bercerita tentang solo trip, Into Thin Air bercerita tentang team trip. Breath taking dan bagi yang easily touched kayak gue akan ada bagian-bagian yang bikin air mata sempat menggenangi mata gitu dan sempet pengen berhenti naik gunung aja (padahal di sini gunungnya ga bersalju juga sih, cupu).

Jadi, tolong Oom-Tante kalo kasian sama saya yang belum mapan ini, bisa dibantu. Kesempurnaan hanya milik Tuhan, kekurangan milik Bunda Dorce.

Wassalam.