Kecil

Ketika sang raja turun tahta,

dan burung elang singgah di daratan.

Ketika musim panen telah tiada,

dan kelaparan mulai bermunculan.

Ketika hari menjadi gelap gulita,

dan berjalan tanpa seorang teman.

Ari

Ch. 14 "Straighten the crooked"

Dear readers,

Do you know exactly what is the meaning of a home for you ? is it a house ? a room ? a toilet ? well, for me home is where I feel so peaceful, far from attackers and I know that somehow my home has me as an ornament in it's unity. Humans and anilmals they build their house to protect them from bad weather, from the sun and predators - Hang on, pradators are also well known in human ecosystem.

Houses are created based on the builders' needs. The builders have to cleverly somehow utilize the spaces and fill them with usefull, worthwile and comfortable things. And when the time come, some things which are rotted with age need to change. We take some penny and buy the new one to replace the old one.

Home, may not just a house or a sanctuary physically build from rocks and sands. But we can call as well an organism, community or a group where - you are in it are home. Sometimes, we do need more a home than just a house.

If you are in a community, you define and tune how the surrounding elements behave toward you. At this initial state, you might need to be what you are since the very beginning. Things that we need to avoid are masking and overacting. As the time goes by, we are processed and indirectly formed in that comunity. During the process clashes happen time by time. Some don't take a long time to get better while other do. And the most important thing is how we settle problems and clashes and how we deal with the fact that there must be something diffrent after you had problem even after it was solved.

Speaking of to settle a problem, take a distance for a while to see a big picture called 'the fact' is much more important rather than keep thinking of 'why me and not them?'. Taking a distance does not mean you run away from the problem but it is just having some situation where you are calm and objective. In this situation, a right solution could possibly come up. Every person might have diffrent way in taking a distance. It depends mostly on the personality of each person.

Since you are living in a comunity with deifferent paradigms, It leads in the end to different perceptions. Even a small and unsignificant problem in a community has an impact to any reactions of community's elements. We can simply say that we are labled by our problems. People start to judge simply by the lable that they see. This is the problem after a problem.

Like needles stucked on your palm, when you remove them one by one, blood starts to come out and a day later the scars still dwell on your palm. We need to wait about a month to get rid of the scars or a week probably with some special care.

Solving a problem is a mater of finding the right solution,

recovering after a problem is a mater of time... and some special care.

It is live in a community...

if that is one of some places that you might call as home

then treasure it,

keep it and take a good care of it,

as if you will not find one better.

To my father and mother,

to my sister and brother,

to my love,

to all my friends, and my communities,

sorry for bothering you with my presence,

but even so,

thank you for having me...

I have a home...

Ari

Masih ada...

Satu malam jiwa ini penuh canda tawa,

satu malam jiwa ini mengarungi waktu.

Satu kata terungkap dalam nada,

satu kata terngiang dalam benakku.

Kau telah mengambil lentera itu dariku.

Pertanda apakah itu ?

Hanya Engkau yang tau !

Meski ini adalah hidupku...

Setiap hariku kelabu,

carikan aku lentera yang baru !

cacian dan sindiran menungguku bak harimau lapar

kapan sayapku melebar ?

Yang tersayang berkata padaku,

lenteramu masih ada.

Meski pedih memaku diriku,

lentera itu selalu ada !

Ari