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Reading My Old Mind

A little note that I found from my old folder. No, I’m not that person anymore. I grow stronger, I’m not scared anymore. I lived through tragedy. Facing the World War III everyday. I learned how to stay survive. I made mistakes, not only once, a lot. The old me are dead and gone now, time to change. Even sometimes it’s hard to accept that I couldn’t change who I’am, but I know, that I could change what life i would be living on. I already killed my old part yesterday. But I still save the body, to remind me who I was. Time to wake up, and break your imagination. Stop living on your dream world, focus on the reality, because you only use your imagination to escape the present, then at the end you would blame yourself or situation for your wasted dream.

So, then. (And the Mountains Echoed's Review)

And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini My rating: 4 of 5 stars I'm definately in love with this book since I read the opening, it had a great opening. It gave the readers part by part story from many different perspective about the main story. The story told me about a regular life with a complicated problem. It told me about how important a single option that people choice in their lives which had a great impact, not only to that person, but the impact still echoed from one generation to another generation. The background felt so real. I felt like jumping from Afghanistan, to Greece, then France, the background were built in a deep way packed in a rich words. Khaled is a wizard of story telling. He made the story flows in a natural way that wrapped in a good option of diction. What I got confused was that there were too many characters. Many of them, that I think, aren’t important. In fact, they dragged me away from the main story. Like the story of Thalia and Markos. T

The More You Think You Know, The Easier It'll Be To Fool You

Sebuah ungkapan dari film Now You See Me yang menegaskan semakin kita yakin dengan apa yang kita lihat, semakin kita mudah dibodohi oleh hal tersebut. Dalam tulisan ini, saya tidak akan berbicara mengenai permainan sulap, melainkan bagaimana kita mempersepsi jagat raya. Banyak pertanyaan yang sering muncul mengenai kehidupan kita, seperti apa sebenarnya saya? Apakah yang dimaksud dengan eksistensi? Apa esensi dari eksistensi saya? Banyak pertanyaan-pertanyaan dengan jawaban yang tiada akhirnya. Apa sebenarnya hal yang disebut saya? Dimana posisi kita di dunia ini? Apa yang disebut dunia? Apa yang disebut jagat raya? Apakah ada kehidupan di luar bumi? Apakah ada yang dinamakan alien? Seluruh pertanyaan-pertanyaan ini muncul dari otak kita, dan tentu kita akan berusaha menjawabnya dengan otak kita pula, melalui kegiatan berpikir. Otak merupakan induk dari segala topik, sekaligus organ atau alat yang memproses segala informasi yang ditangkap oleh panca-indera kita. Informasi-i