Senin, 25 Mei 2020
Ketika berada di atas gunung atau di tepi pantai yang indah, hal pertama yang kita lakukan biasanya adalah mengambil foto. Entah tujuannya untuk apa, yang penting kita mempunyai bukti bahwa kita pernah berada di tempat yang indah tersebut.
Seringkali, seperti sudah kebiasaan, hal seperti ini terus-menerus terulang, sadar atau tidak sadar. Kita jadi tidak punya cukup waktu atau bahkan lupa untuk menikmati momen yang ada.
Sebenarnya, apa tujuan kita untuk mengambil foto akan kejadian tersebut?
Apakah untuk kenang-kenangan agar bisa dilihat kembali suatu hari nanti?
Atau hanya sebagai bukti untuk orang lain bahwa kita pernah berada di tempat tersebut?
Jika jawabanmu adalah untuk menjadikannya sebagai bukti yang dapat kita tunjukan ke orang lain, sebaiknya kamu segera urungkan niatmu dan pikirkan kembali.
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Ketika kita hidup hanya fokus untuk mengejar apresiasi dan sanjungan dari orang lain, sebenarnya kita tidak benar-benar sedang menikmati hidup kita.
Sanjungan, apresiasi bahkan harta milik kita, semua hal itu pada akhirnya adalah kesia-siaan belaka.
Kenapa tidak kita mengisi hari-hari kita dengan lebih bijak?
Ketika suatu saat nanti, kita sedang berada di puncak gunung tertinggi, atau di pantai yang sungguh indah, cobalah untuk benar-benar menikmati momen yang ada, tanpa mengambil foto, tanpa memikirkan masa depan, hanya hadir pada masa kini. Mencoba untuk mensyukuri atas apa yang sudah kita miliki dan kita capai sambil menikmati pemandangan dan momen yang ada.
Aku mau belajar dan akan terus belajar untuk bisa melakukan hal tersebut—menikmati momen yang ada tanpa harus mengabadikannya lewat foto.
Memang foto tidak dapat pudar dan memori otak bisa pudar, tapi kebahagiaan yang didapatkan ketika kita "hadir" dan "sadar penuh" tidak dapat tergantikan.
Kita tidak perlu membuktikan kepada siapapun jika kita sedang berada di atas puncak gunung.
The dreamer.
Sabtu, 23 Mei 2020
You may want to start declutter your things right now, but you don't know where to starts.
Last year, when I first knew about minimalism and decluttering, the first thing that I got rid of was my clothes. It was so easy for me to declutter my clothes because I don't really have too much stuff and before, I always make groups of my clothes which are group of daily or usually use items and group of I don't really want to use it soon. At the end, the last group is always being the one which I never wore and ended up in donation box.
This year, I declutter my sentimental items. This was huge for me because I have a lot of sentimental items such as my old toys, old notes, girl items, old books and digital memories. It took me 1 day to declutter my toys and girl items, 1 day for books and another 1 day to declutter my digital memories. It's really different rather when I declutter my clothes because I just need around 1 hour to finish it.
I realize it was easy for me to get rid of my clothes at the first place because I'm not too attached to those items. I'm not a person who likes to buy clothes every time, I just buy it once or twice a year and only 1 or 2 pieces. That's why I don't have many clothing items and I'm relieved about it now.
Yes, I'm too attached to my sentimental items because they have lot of memory in it. Next time, I will tell you how I can finally let them go.
In my opinion, when it's your first time to declutter, choose a part that you are not too attached to because it's easier to let them go. It may your books that you haven't read for years, or your make-up tools that you didn't use for few months or already expired. Well, it may vary for every person. Remember, you don't need rush. Good luck!
The dreamer.
Jumat, 22 Mei 2020
I know there is something wrong, when my right hand was hurts and my eyes got blurry vision. Then, I realize this thing happened after I spend too much time on my phone.
My phone is like a tool that can do anything for me. Phone is my notes, my camera, my TV, my way to communicate, my game board, I can do anything with my phone and I write—almost—all my blog post on my phone, too.
After I spend over a month at home because of this pandemic, I notice about my screen time on phone is increasing a lot. I can spend 7-10 more hours on phone, No, I didn't do anything useful on it. I'm just surfing on the internet or watching Netflix or playing games, that's how I kill my time on my phone. Nothing useful, as I said.
So, this past few days—actually 4 days—I decided to limit my screen time. I read some essay from The Minimalists and it inspired me to do the same. Honestly, I can't. I can't getting rid of my phone as he did, but I know I can reduce to use it as much as I want.
I tried to check my phone once per one hour, and what I did on phone just for reply some text, sometimes to read a chapter of e-book, and sometimes to play about three races on Kart Rider game. Mostly that's all. I did limit to reply messages because I found out if my hand was hurts when I typed on my phone too much.
At first, it's really hard to do. As you know, we usually check out our phone without awareness, I mean, checking out our phone is like breathing for us, and we will feel anxious when we can't check our phone, even there's no notification at that time. So, when the thought of need to check out my phone was out, I tried to get rid of it with leave my phone on a table that far from me and I did anything else, like read a pyshical book or have a conversation with my parents or other family member. Now, for 4 days, my screen time is on 3 hours average. It decreased—a lot.
With this, I realize when I was too attached to my phone, I didn’t have enough time to listening about my family member stories, to help them and to do anything else off screen.
When we put the screen down, we will get some new and good experience that off of screen.
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