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Wednesday, 20 September 2017

Living in a boarding house....


Hey there, especially people who have ever lived in a boarding house, the more special ones are those who currently are living in a boarding house.

Living far away from your family is not an easy thing to do. Here is my story related to living in a boarding house.

Boarding house, yup these two words sounded both interesting and scaring when I heard it for the first time. Why it sounded interesting? Because when we live in a boarding house we will get EXTRA FREEDOM.... (I couldn’t deny this). On the other hand, I also feel that living in a boarding house may be a scaring thing. It is because at first I thought that to live with strangers is like living with monsters.... (too exaggerating LOL). I used to be a closed minded girl who couldn’t accept the differences between me and others. I hate strangers and I don’t like to make new friends. But all of these stupid thoughts were changed after I live for several semesters in this boarding house. Now, I think that making new friends is a good thing that will help us to understand that differences do not always lead into something bad. Indeed, differences make our lives more colourful.

However, I couldn’t deny that there will always be some conflicts exist in boarding house life. Each of us has different opinion over something. Sometimes, our different opinions, our different views lead us into a kind of conflict that split us for a while. Yet, thanks God that each conflict has led us into a better condition that we call “maturity”.


Sooner or later, I will leave this boarding house and go back to my REAL home. Thinking about this makes me feel happy and sad at the same time. Although I believe that there’s no other place that can replace my home, this boarding house has been my second home. Sometimes, I hope that Doraemon could help me to solve this problem, but then I realize that I am not Nobita. But for sure, I realize that someday I will extremely miss this boarding house. 

Tuesday, 19 September 2017

My Philosophy of Life

Well, hari ini aku lagi sedikit malas untuk menulis dalam bahasa Inggris. Next time maybe.
Nah, topik hari ini adalah filosofi hidupku. Aku yakin bahwa kita sering mendengar berbagai slogan mengenai arti kehidupan. Masing-masing dari kita tentu memiliki pandangan tersendiri mengenai arti kehidupan. So do I...
Beberapa menit yang lalu, saat aku baru tiba di ruang PPL, tiba-tiba saja aku mulai berpikir tentang arti kehidupan (versiku sendiri). Yang membuatku tiba-tiba memikirkan tentang kehidupan, tak lain dan tak bukan, ialah perjalananku dari kos menuju sekolah ini (FYI aku tengah menjalani PPL di salah satu sekolah di Kota Semarang). Ada banyak jalan yang bisa aku lalui untuk menuju tempat ini, tapi entah mengapa aku tetap konsisten dengan jalan yang biasa aku lewati (of course becuase it is the fastest one). Dari situlah aku mulai berpikir mengenai kehidupan. So, I began thinking that LIFE IS SIMILAR TO A TRIP FROM MY BOARDING HOUSE TO THIS SCHOOL. Yup, jadi dalam pandanganku, hidup itu serupa dengan perjalanan dari kosku ke sekolah ini. To make it simple, I will say that 'Life is similar to a trip'.
Let's begin to discuss the main point. Nah, dalam hidup ini, kita memiliki banyak opsi atau pilihan. Begitu pula saat kita memulai suatu perjalanan. Kita memiliki banyak pilihan mengenai jalan-jalan yang bisa kita lalui untuk menuju tempat tujuan. Pun dalam hidup, tentu kita memiliki suatu tujuan. Dan untuk mencapai tujuan tersebut, ada banyak pilihan mengenai apa yang harus kita lakukan. Terkadang, untuk mencapai tempat tujuan, kita memilih jalan yang paling cepat (like the one I did). Di lain waktu, kita memilih jalan dengan jarak yang lebih jauh namun terbukti sangat aman. Atau kita memilih jalan tertentu dengan pertimbangan pemandangan yang memanjakan mata (lumayan, sekalian refreshing haha). It goes the same for our lives, terkadang kita memilih cara tercepat untuk mencapai tujuan kita. Terkadang kita memilih cara yang mungkin lebih lambat namun terbukti aman dan tidak memiliki banyak resiko. Terkadang kita memilih cara yang mungkin lebih lambat dari yang lain karena kita tidak terlalu fokus dengan tujuan, karena kita ingin pula menikmati hidup ini dengan cara kita, kita tak ingin terburu-buru. Intinya, perjalanan dan kehidupan sama-sama memberikan banyak pilihan bagi kita.
Lalu bagaimana peran takdir yang telah terlebih dahulu ditetapkan Tuhan. Aku menghabiskan sekian menit untuk memikirkannya, and finally got the relevant similarities between life and a trip in terms of 'fate'. Jadi, dalam hidup kita mengenal istilah takdir Tuhan. Sesuatu yang tak dapat kita ubah. Dalam perjalananpun kita mengenal beberapa peraturan yang tak dapat kita ubah. Seperti adanya jalan satu arah yang menyebabkan kita tak bisa selalu melewati jalan tersebut. Nah, sekiranya seperti itulah takdir hidup. Terkadang kita telah memilih jalan yang paling cepat, namun apa daya jika ternyata berdasarkan peraturan yang ada kita tidak bisa melewati jalan tersebut. Begitupun dalam hidup, terkadang kita telah memilih suatu cara dalam mencapai tujuan kita, namun apa mau dikata jika Tuhan telah berkehendak lain. Perlu diingat bahwa setiap peraturan diberlakukan untuk kebaikan bersama. Begitupun kehendak Tuhan, ditetapkan demi kebaikan kita.
Seperti apa pun hidup kita, kita harus selalu bersyukur atas apa yang kita miliki. Tetapkan tujuan yang hendak kita capai, jika perlu tetapkan tujuan yang tinggi (jika diibaratkan perjalanan, maka tetapkan tujuan yang jauh). Karena semakin tinggi tujuan kita (semakin jauh tujuan kita), maka semakin besar usaha kita dan semakin banyak pengalaman yang kita dapatkan (semakin jauh jarak yang kita tempuh dan semakin kita tau isi dunia ini). Pilihlah jalan yang paling sesuai dengan kita, namun jangan terlalu kecewa jika ternyata apa yang telah kita pilih tak dapat kita lalui. Tuhan pasti punya rencana yang lebih baik untuk kita.
So, in the end, I will say "Let's live our lives happily!"

Monday, 18 September 2017

Loving Who You Really Are

Have you ever felt as if you are nothing and get really frustrated with it? That's exactly what I felt several months ago. Even sometimes, I still feel that feeling in recent days, but not as bad as before.
So, my biggest question is "How to get rid of this feeling?". I was questioning about it almost all the time. And yes, finally I got the answer. It lies in our own mindset, our way of thinking. We call it as 'self love'. 
Maybe when you heard someone ask you to love yourself, at first you may see this suggestion as a bad suggestion. Loving yourself is usually linked with narcissism. However, they are actually different. Loving yourself means that you accept who you truly are, accept your weaknesses and your strengths. You do your best for yourself because you want to make yourself happy. While narcissism is a kind of personality disorder which means extreme selfishness.
Accepting who we really are is not as simple as it looks, especially when we begin to talk about our weaknesses. It is easy to accept our strength points, yet it is very difficult to accept our weaknesses. I used to have a problem with this. Thanks God that now I can learn to accept myself, with all my weaknesses. So, how can I do it? Here are some tips for you:
1. Try to understand that every person has his/her own strengths and weaknesses.
I am sure that you are familiar with this slogan: "Nobody is perfect". Yup, from this slogan, we should know that it is useless if we want to make ourselves to be perfect, with no weaknesses. Yet, it doesn't mean that we should not try to be better people. Trying to be better is good, but sometimes we also need to understand that we have our own limitations. So, don't push yourselves too hard and accept who you really are. Each of us is unique, special, original, and wonderful in different ways.
2. Stop comparing yourself with someone else. 
This used to be one of my biggest problem. I used to compare myself with others and ended up thinking how bad I was. Instead of comparing yourself with others, it will be better if you compare who you are now with who you were in the past, then see the difference. Try to always make an improvement, even a little one.
Hmm, I think that's all for today. Let's love ourselves and be proud of who we are.