ThoseThingsHappen

[sgassani]

The Universe

the universe was not kind to auggie pullman. what did the little kid ever do to deserve his sentence? what did the parents do? or olivia? she once mentioned that some doctor told her parents that he odds of someone getting the same combination of syndromes that came together to make auggie's face was like one in four million. so doesn't that make the universe a giant lottery, then? you purchase a ticket when you're born. it's all just random whether you get a good ticket or a bad ticket. it's all just luck. my head swirls on this, but then softer thoughts soothe, like a flatted third on a major chord. no, no, it's not all random, if it really was all random, the universe would abandon us completely. and the universe doesn't. it takes care of its most fragile creations in ways we can't see. like with the parents who adore you blindly. and the big sister who feels guilty for being human over you. and a little gravelly-voiced kid whose friends have left him over you. and even a pink-haired girl who carries your picture in her wallet. maybe it is a lottery, but the universe makes it all even out in the end. the universe takes care of all of its birds. -Justin, "Wonder" by R.J. Palacio

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[pokotopokoto]

GET OUT

[thelibraryofagonychristie]

I’m crying

[fnhnf]

:”)

[sgassani]

:')

[bunlly]

The same boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It’s about what you’re made of, not the circumstances.

Anonymous (via lazypacific)

[sgassani]

Life was given to us a billion years ago. What have we done with it?

Lucy, quite an opening line

[southernpiphi]

[sgassani]

the goal isn't to be perfect by the end. the goal is to be better today.

[sgassani]

Topiknya nggak ringan, tapi disampaikan dengan effortless, banyak adegan yang akan menguras air mata, tapi ada juga selipan-selipan humor yang bikin kita sadar bahwa hidup itu ya begini: nggak selamanya senang, nggak selamanya sedih, but we are who we are because of all of those sedih dan senang, and we'll be what we can be karena kesediaan kita belajar dari sedih dan senang di masa lalu.

Ika Natassa's review

[sgassani]

Meminta maaf ketika salah adalah wujud dari banyak hal. Wujud dari sadar bahwa seseorang cukup mawas diri bahwa dia salah. Wujud dari kemenangan dia melawan arogansi. Wujud dari penghargaan dia kepada orang yang dimintakan maaf.

Adhitya Mulya, Sabtu Bersama Bapak

[sgassani]

The only personal branding consultant who can ever hope to have a clear understanding of you and your value can be found in the mirror

Ryan Lilly

[sgassani]

"We can’t understand someone until we’ve walked a mile in their shoes”. 

How would it feel to be in different shoes? To have lived in different neighborhood? To have different friends that surround us? To have different parents that raise us? To be (literally) in different body? 

That is how A live everyday of his life:

I wake up.

Immediately I have to figure out who I am. It’s not just the body — opening my eyes and discovering whether the skin on my arm is light or dark, whether my hair is long or short, whether I’m fat or thin, boy or girl, scarred or smooth. The body is the easiest thing to adjust to, if you’re used to waking up in a new one each morning. It’s the life, the context of the body, that can be hard to grasp.

Every day I am someone else. I am myself — I know I am myself — but I am also someone else.

It has always been like this.

A has waken up in an obese body, and in Beyonce-like body. In a straight-A student, and in an actor. In a body of an athlete. In a body of a drug addict. In a body that try to kill herself. In a boy, a girl, and transgendered. In both the twins body. In a cold family, and in a warm one. Single mother, different kind of sibling, and as the only child. Reading this book gives us a glimpse feeling of living another person’s life.

I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone else. I will never feel the pressure of peers or the burden of parental expectation. I can view everyone as pieces of a whole, and focus on the whole, not the pieces. 

It is also a story about a boy who likes a girl, and you can imagine how hard would commitment be for someone who dont get to know who he will be the next morning. And for that case, David Levithan has given it a nice ending.

[psych-facts]

[maybornflower-deactivated201505]

“In fact a mature person does not fall in love, he rises in love. The word ’fall’ is not right. Only immature people fall; they stumble and fall down in love. Somehow they were managing and standing. They cannot manage and they cannot stand – they find a woman and they are gone, they find a man...

[sgassani]

To my best buddy. Congratulation. Selamat 'rise in love'. ;)

[sgassani]

do not fear the unknown, learn to understand it instead

[irinepraptiningtyas]

[taufiqsuryo]

Karena lahir adalah untuk melihat kenyataan

quite a line

[sgassani]

Life is a game this is your strategy guide

At the start of the game, you had no control over who you were or your environment. By the end of the game that becomes true again. Your past decisions drastically shape where you end up, and if you’re happy, healthy, fulfilled – or not – in your final days there’s far less you can do about it.

That’s why your strategy is important. Because by the time most of us have figured life out, we’ve used up too much of the best parts.

Now you’d best get playing.

[ichahaedy]

2:31 p.m.

[sgassani]

Diantara makhluk Allah di bumi ini, rasanya yang paling sering membuat air mata saya turun adalah: ibu dan bapak. Bermacam-macam sebabnya.

Itu, menurut saya, cukup membuktikan bahwa keluarga adalah seutuhnya rumah yang Allah berikan untuk tempat saya pulang. Setidaknya di dunia. Rumah adalah tempat dimana selengkap-lengkapnya rasa bisa ada. 

Jika kau tanya ‘mengapa’ ia tumpah kali ini, kau tak akan mendapat jawabnya.

Anggap saja perannya kali ini adalah sebagai tanda eksistensi bahwa rasa-sayang-yang-tidak-membutuhkan-balasan itu, benar-benar ada.

rasa-sayang-yang-tidak-membutuhkan-balasan itu, benar-benar ada

[votedami]

There is beauty in the sinner who feels guilt, for something in him says “There is more to me than this.”

[zainsfiction-deactivated2016080]

A good deed,” said the prophet Muhammad, “is one that brings a smile of joy to the face of another.” Why will doing a good deed every day produce such astounding efforts on the doer? Because trying to please others will cause us to stop thinking of ourselves: the very thing that produces worry, fear, and melancholia.

Dale Carnegie, ”How to Stop Worrying and Start Living”