Month: May 2017

Coba ingat-ingat, seberapa sering kita meyakinkan diri sendiri untuk ‘let it be’? Bahwa semua yang terjadi di kehidupan kita sudah ada yang mengatur dan pasti ada hikmahnya.. Seberapa sering kita mengakunya pasrah dan legowo atas kehidupan yang dijalani saat ini?

Tapi… sudahkah kita membersamai kepasrahaan dan kelogowoan itu dengan rasa bahagia? Rasa senang menjalani hidup, seberapapun capeknya, pusingnya, frustrasinya… Seringnya kita lupa, disamping let it be, kita juga harus merasa happy. Karena percuma kalau let it be tapi setiap hari mengeluh, setiap hari grumpy, setiap hari ada saja misuh-misuh karena hidup yang tidak sesuai ekspektasi.

Mungkin kita semua harus membalik siklus bahagia. Bukan semua indah dulu baru kita bahagia, tetapi kita bahagia dulu baru segala hal akan jadi indah dan menyenangkan. Bukan menunggu semesta membuat segala sesuatunya menyenangkan, tetapi merasa senang dulu baru semesta memberikan yang indah-indah.

Kalau sedikit-sedikit hal kecil membuat emosi, membuat kesal, dan terlalu dipikirkan, kapan bisa bahagia seutuhnya? Kalau sedikit-sedikit menggerutu, mengeluh, dan merasa ngga bahagia, apa iya sudah benar-benar pasrah dan legowo namanya?

Belum lagi, mood itu menular. Positive vibes dan negative vibes itu menular ke orang-orang sekitar. Kalau ngga bahagia, kalau grumpy, otomatis aura negatif menular ke lingkungan sekitar. Bukannya sebaik-baik manusia adalah yang memberi manfaat untuk orang lain? Kalau menebar aura negatif, namanya bukan memberi manfaat dong? 🙂

Let it be.. jangan cuma dipasrahkan, harus juga diiringi dengan semangat untuk merasa bahagia apa pun hasilnya, apa pun takdirnya nanti. Fake it till you make it 😉

♥ Atiqah Zulfa Nadia

Everything in our life will eventually comes to an end. Either it ends while we’re still living or it ends together as our souls are taken away from this world.

But God is kind. He gave each one of us a brain, in which there is a part called cerebral cortex. The cerebral cortex is in charge for our memories. Be it the thing we learn in high school, sad moments in our childhood, and the happiest moment of our lives. Thanks but no thanks to brain, we are able to recall our memories. I haven’t gone into so much depth that I can explain how our brains can recall something we avoid to remember the most. Yet we all know that sometimes, our brains remind us about bad moments in our lives without our consent.

On the contrary, does remembering good moments make us happy? I’d say yes to the degree of 80%. The rest 20%, I feel a great longing that I want to repeat the memory. For example, I want to go back to Manchester so much every time I see a picture of  the city. I could feel the heat of the sun combined by a cold wind as I walk through the Oxford Road. As if I was there physically. And that leaves me with a great desire re-visit Manchester.

However, things are not the same anymore. Manchester that I remember in my memory is not the same Manchester as it is now.

Manchester in my memory is full of my friends. Full of our laughter, our silly discussion in a café, our sleepless nights at the library, our argument about in the classroom, etc. Manchester in my memory is full of familiar faces. The cashier at Lidl, the waitress in an Indian restaurant, the cleaner in my dorm, etc. Yet they’re gone now. There aren’t any of my classmates (except those who are doing their PhD), the cashier at Lidl might have moved to another chain of Lidl, and the cleaner might have cleaned another dorm.

If I do re-visit Manchester now, will the previous memory of Manchester being replaced by the new one? I can’t tell. But I don’t want it to be replaced. I want it to be permanently stored in my brain, which I then can recall anytime I like. Just as it is permanently has a place in my heart.

So I think, whether it is good or bad, some things are better kept as memories. If it’s bad, well, we know it’s just a memory and it had happened in the past. If it’s good, I’m pretty sure it will brighten up our day 🙂

♥ Atiqah Zulfa Nadia