#What Makes Me Happy: Finale

For this project, I originally planned to write ten things that make me happy, but now let me just write the last one, and maybe, the most important one. One thing that makes me happy is writing. I know it's hard to start sometimes, but the drive is still there, and as soon as I write, the words just flow from my mind. 

Writing can really help me sometimes. If I feel down, I write about how life sucks, sometimes in the form of poetry. I write until every negative things are out, then put a big cross in the paper, or delete it if I write it on sticky notes or tumblr. After that, I write my own solutions, my own plans for the problems, and wow, everything's solved. 

I've always dreamed of having my own book or novel published since I was a child, but it's really hard for me to keep up with it. Why? because I get bored so easily. For example, I have this one idea, and then I start to make the outline in my head. The endings, the highlight sentences, even the back cover of the book. But then I see other stuffs and get new ideas, and it is like those new ideas are more interesting than the old ones. So I do it all over again. I've read that if you want to write a novel, you should stick with an idea, and eventhough you think it's awful in the middle of the work, you need to stick with it until you write the ending. But I can't do that. And that's why I like writing poems and drabbles more nowadays. 

At last, I want to tell you the point of this project. I want to show you that in order to be happy, you don't have to get extravagant things. These small things that make up your life, are as important as them. I'm happy to go to Denmark and join IBO, but those things don't happen everyday. So if you keep waiting for the big things to be happy, you might never be happy for your whole life.Even the fact that you can breathe easily, that you can see the world in colors, that you can hear the music, those little things should make you happy. Because out there, there are people who can not afford to have them all but still put a smile on their face. It's the end of 2015, let's be happy.

12-10-2015

Tasks and studies might fill up the most of our times, but I believe we shouldn't let them take our time to do things we love and time for our family and friends (friends, not classmates not teammates not organization-mates, though they may overlap). Our hobbies, family, and friends have as much right as the tasks to fill our time. Never think of times spending with them as wastes.

There is even one more thing we shouldn't forget. God, above all, has the right for all our time. In our busy times, it might be hard to pray and remember God, but don't forget that those prayers could help make those hard times easier.

The most productive person, for me, is not the one who can do his/her tasks fast. Not the one who can handle the most number of classes. But the one who, with the same 24 hours he/she has a day, can do his/her study well while still living his/her passion and maintaning a good relationship with his/her family, friends, and the most important one, God.

01-10-2015

Blessing is not always about big things, like going to one university that you've been dreaming for forever, or getting medals, money, or Nobel Prize. For me, blessing is when you buy one wrong cereal pack because you don't like full-cream milk, but when you open the other one, there is two packages of chocolate milk that you like. For me, blessing is finding a book for reference after a countless nights of searching. For me, blessing is when God still let me stay strong and true to myself despite everything that is happening.

Blessings are literally everywhere, we get them everytime we breath, everytime our hearts beat, so why don't we be grateful from now on?

18-09-15

Everytime I feel tired and start to complain about my life, I think of my mother.

I usually go to campus from 8 to 3. Yes sometimes I need to stay until 6, but that's only like, one day in a week. Some days like today for example, I only have to stay until 12. But my mother, she works from 8 to 7 four days in a week, and 8 to 5 for Friday. I wear a tired expression when I meet her, while she wears her best smile.

Yes, I have tasks. I sleep late almost everyday. I am tired. But so is she. She said she had some problem with her memory as the effect of some therapy she had years ago, so she had to read and learn all the materials and laws about taxes in the night. But then she still wake up at 3 or 4 to pray. For her, for me, for our family. She still spends some time to help my sister with her study. She still had the time to come right away to my place when I got sick, while I don't even know if she is sick.

Sometimes I feel like asking God to switch places with people. Sometimes I feel like complaining again and again. But now as I think about this, I can only ask myself, "Do I really have the right to ask for it? Do I even have any right to say 'aduh, capek banget hari ini' ?"

Be Brave

10 Ways to be Happy

*I've been so busy this past week. I need to finish my tasks from OSIS and study for pelatnas. It was tiring. Really tiring. So I decided to open tumblr today to refresh myself and found this post which I think I need to share. Happy reading!

God Listens

Sometimes, we want something so badly. We pray for that fluently. We give 'deadlines' to God for giving us that thing. When we don't get what we want at the 'deadline' we thought our prayer is not listened and will never be listened. But tonight, I realize it's completely wrong. God listens. He always listens. God always gives the best thing for us in the best time, at the best place, on the best way. We just need to wait and believe. Because... God loves us.

03-07-2013

"Just because I laugh a lot, doesn’t mean my life is easy. Just because I have a smile on my face every day, doesn’t mean that somethings not bothering me. Its just that I choose to move on with the negative in my life, and keep my head up, instead of dwelling on the past."

That was a post on tumblr that I've just reblogged, and yes, I'm quite agree with it. I don't like crying if I could prevent it. I don't think expressing your sad or angry feeling everytime will make your condition better, I guess it will just make your feeling worse. When you laugh over your problem or smile over your tears, it's like manipulating your brain that you're happy. Anyway, I know this may sound cliche, but I believe everything happens for a reason, it's just sometimes the reason is unknown. Rather than dwelling and regretting your past, it's better to move on and face your future by learning from the past. So, let's smile, laugh, and don't forget to stay positive :D

The Football Lesson

1. The National Team of Indonesia teaches me to SURVIVE even at the worst times.
2. Manchester City teaches me to FIGHT 'til the end.
3. Chelsea teaches me about CONFIDENCE and how they impact our life.
4. Arsenal teaches me to MOVE ON over a problem.
5. QPR teaches me to BELIEVE in good things and miracles could happen when we do our best.
6. Manchester United teaches me to get your spirit high ALL THE TIME and to not be arrogant.
7. Add it by yourself

A Change

banyak orang tidak peduli akan suatu perubahan, ada yang menganggap keadaan tidak mungkin dirubah, ada yang justru memang takut akan perubahan.

actually, this is not a post full of wise things- that usually turn out boring- this is a story about how a change is possible to make. enjoy !

Cerita ini bisa dibilang kisah nyata yang aku alamin sendiri. Detail ceritanya sendiri, aku gak inget pasti. Jadi mungkin ada beberapa peristiwa yang hilang dari cerita.

Liburan kenaikan kelas, aku dan keluargaku pergi berlibur ke yogya. Di daerah Malioboro, kami baru saja keluar dai taman pintar. Di depannya, ada beberapa tukang becak yang menawarkan sejenis tur di sekitar Malioboro sekaligus mengajak ke tempat belanja yang bagus dan murah. Karena ibuku kebetulan ingin membeli batik, akhirnya kami setuju. Kami menyewa dua becak, satu untuk ayahku dan sepupuku, dan yang satunya lagi untuk aku, adikku, dan ibuku.

Setelah kami selesai berbelanja, kami pulang kembali ke tempat ayahku memarkir mobil. Saat itulah tukang becak itu mulai bercerita tentang dirinya dan keluarganya. Dia bercerita bahwa dulu semasa SMA dia adalah anak yang nakal dan malas sekolah, sampai sampai dari rumahnya ia kabur ke Yogya. Karena SMA saja dia belum lulus, sangat sulit untuk mencari pekerjaan, jadi dia memilih untuk menjadi tukang becak. Dia sendiri mengaku kalau dia sangat menyesali hal itu, dan berharap ia dulu mengikuti nasib orangtuanya. Akhirnya ia memutuskan bahwa jika ia dulu tidak berhasil, ia mau anak-anaknya akan jadi orang yang sukses, yang bisa menghidupi keluarganya dengan baik, tidak seperti dia. Kemudian, dia mulai bekerja keras dan berusaha mendidik anaknya dengan baik. Kalau tidak salah, anak pertamanya sekarang sudah menjadi dosen, anak keduanya menjadi guru, dan anak ketiganya juga sedang kuliah di salah satu universitas ternama. Ketika ditanya kenapa ia masih menjadi tukang becak sampai sekarang padahal anak-anaknya bisa menghidupinya dengan baik, ia menjawab bahwa ia menjadi tukang becak karena ia bosan di rumah.

Nah, hubungannya cerita ini dengan perubahan adalah semangat si tukang becak tersebut untuk merubah nasib keluarganya menjadi lebih baik,ia percaya kalau ia bisa dan ia juga berusaha keras.

So, let's start to make a good change for our world !!! Don't wait for the others to make the change. Don't be afraid to fail. Just start from the small things, like your bad habit, it will be a good thing to turn it into a good habit, right? And most of all, don't be afraid to make a good change for your life, because actually we change naturally. We change a lot if we compare it when we were a baby, right?

LET'S MAKE A CHANGE!!!!
pssst.., the good one, ok ?

YOU WANT TO BE HAPPY ?

Do you want to be happy ? I guess everybody wants to be happy, and i believe that everybody deserves to be happy. But how ? I've got this list from tumblr about what should you do to make you happy.

TRAVEL
the world is too big of a book to just read one page

SPEND A DAY WITH DOG,
they know how to appreciate life in the koment. they live with purpose, something humans rarely do.

DON'T LIE,
because then you have to remember all of them. It's easier to remember the truth than things that never happened.

PLAY WITH A BABY,
their laugh is and always be the most infectious and precious sound you will ever hear. knowing you're responsible for it brings you joy.

SPEND A DAY LISTENING TO MUSIC YOU LOVE,
don't just listen, but let it overwhelm you. let it fill your veins, let it flood your mind.

NEVER LET ANYONE ELSE TELL YOU HOW TO THINK,
you can spend your life following a thought or belief a faith blinfly without ever thinking. your mind is strong enough and smart enough to make its own decisions, don't take that for granted.

UNDERSTAND THAT JUST BECAUSE YOU CAN DO SOMETHING, DOESN'T MEAN YOU SHOULD.

BE SELFLESS,
but allow yourself tendencies. giving is beautiful until you have nothing left, take care of yourself before you ever take care anyone else.

IF YOU'RE SAD, ANGRY, OR WORRIED, BE THAT !
but never be that for more than an hour, you're missing out on a beautiful life.

SURROUND YOURSELF WITH PEOPLE AND THINGS YOU LOVE,
life is too short to spend it with peopke who don't care about you.

STOP COMPLAINING ABOUT YOUR PROBLEMS,
because out of the people you tell 20% of them don't care and 80% of them are glad you have them in the first place.

SPEND TIME WITH YOUR FAMILY,
you forget about mortality all too quickly until it's too late.

DO SOMETHING A LITTLE DIFFERENT EACH AND EVERYDAY, doing thingsout of order or doing something completely bew everyday stimulates the brain.

KINDNESS IS A DISEASE THAT IS GOOD TO HAVE AND EVEN BETTER TO SPREAD.

UNDERSTAND THAT THE YOU WERE GIVEN IS A GIFT, NOT A RIGHT,
you don't deserve all that you've been blessed with. don't take that for granted.

FALL IRREVOCABLY IN LOVE.

BUY YOURSELF SOMETHING YOU DON'T NECESSARILY NEED BUT DEFINITELY WANT,
treating yourself every once in a while is a good thing.

BUY SOMETHING FOR YOUR BESTFRIEND RANDOMLY,
the look on their face is the most priceless thing you'll ever see.

IF A PREGNANT WOMAN EVER ASKS IF YOU WANT TO FEEL THE BABY KICK, NEVER TURN THAT OPPORTUNITY DOWN,
it's an experience you'll never forget.

So, remember, you were born with rights that people are still struggling and fighting for today. NEVER TAKE YOUR LIFE FOR GRANTED.

BE HAPPY :D