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Saya terharu sekali.
Membaca sebuah tulisan yang ditulis oleh seorang teman yang katanya terinspirasi oleh saya.
Mata berkaca-kaca.
Rasanya seperti ditampar.
Sungguh, terima kasih atas tamparannya.
Tersadarkan bahwa selama ini saya masih belum bersyukur.
Mari kita sama-sama belajar melihat dan berkaca.
Silahkan membaca tulisannya : gundukan istimewa.
Being here, by Mark Garry, thread pins, beads
Menurut saya, spirituality itu universal.
Dan agama itu personal.
There are so many things in this world that i love. Music, books, laughter, foods, movies, human mind, stars, and other things that i can’t mention one by one. But most importantly, i love people.
People whom i cared about, like friends and family. People whom i barely knew but inspired me a lot, like Neil Gaiman. People whom I’ve met without knowing each other, like a stranger who was doing matrix moves when i passed him by and got me laughing. People whom i have yet to meet, but can not wait to. And also people that can make my heart beats faster.
Do you know what all the things that i love have in common?
They are not mine. ;-)
“I can believe things that are true and things that aren’t true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they’re true or not. I can believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and the Beatles and Marilyn Monroe and Elvis and Mister Ed. Listen - I believe that people are perfectable, that knowledge is infinite, that the world is run by secret banking cartels and is visited by aliens on a regular basis, nice ones that look like wrinkled lemurs and bad ones who mutilate cattle and want our water and our women. I believe that the future sucks and I believe that the future rocks and I believe that one day White Buffalo Woman is going to come back and kick everyone’s ass.
I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating and that the decline in good sex in America is coincident with the decline in drive-in movie theaters from state to state. I believe that all politicians are unprincipled crooks and I still believe that they are better than the alternative. I believe that California is going to sink into the sea when the big one comes, while Florida is going to dissolve into madness and alligators and toxic waste. I believe that antibacterial soap is destroying our resistance to dirt and disease so that one day we’ll all be wiped out by the common cold like martians in War of the Worlds.
I believe that the greatest poets of the last century were Edith Sitwell and Don Marquis, that jade is dried dragon sperm, and that thousands of years ago in a former life I was a one-armed Siberian shaman. I believe that mankind’s destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid, that it’s aerodynamically impossible for a bumble bee to fly, that light is a wave and a particle, that there’s a cat in a box somewhere who’s alive and dead at the same time (although if they don’t ever open the box to feed it it’ll eventually just be two different kinds of dead), and that there are stars in the universe billions of years older than the universe itself.
I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal god who set the universe in motion and went off to hang with her girlfriends and doesn’t even know that I’m alive. I believe in an empty and godless universe of causal chaos, background noise, and sheer blind luck. I believe that anyone who says sex is overrated just hasn’t done it properly. I believe that anyone who claims to know what’s going on will lie about the little things too. I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies. I believe in a woman’s right to choose, a baby’s right to live, that while all human life is sacred there’s nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust the legal system.
I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you’re alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.”
- Neil Gaiman

Gary Simmons
Spade Fall
2004
oil on canvas
84 x 84 inches(via mrkiki)