“Maaf, aku telat menjemputmu, tadi hujan di dekat rumah.”
“Maaf, kita tidak jadi pergi, tadi hujan di jalan.”
“Maaf, tadi sewaktu aku pergi hujan turun deras sekali, aku jadi nggak jemput kamu.”
“Maaf yang tadi nggak jemput kamu, daripada basah kuyup, dan kamu sakit…”
Pernahkah kita mendengar kata-kata seperti itu, keluar dari mulut laki-laki yang kita tunggu? Kalau menurut saya, sering. Sepertinya ada keterkaitan antara rasa takut laki-laki pada hujan dan menjadi basah. Aneh? Sangat.
Sejak berabad-abad silam, kaum Adam atau laki-laki dikenal sebagai sosok kuat, macho, tidak mudah menyerah. Bahkan laki-laki dikenal sebagai makhluk nomor satu, atau sebagai makhluk yang paling berakal, sementara perempuan sebagai makhluk nomor dua. Di peradaban lama, saat manusia masih mengandalkan mata pencaharian dari berburu dan nomaden, laki-laki adalah pemburu nomor satu dan pelindung kelompok. Perempuan diamankan di rumah untuk menghasilkan dan merawat anak, selain melakukan pekerjaan rumah tangga lainnya. Pada masa renaissance dan kejayaan Eropa, perempuan masih berada pada posisi subordinat. Perempuan yang memiliki kekayaan tertentu saja yang dapat bermimpi untuk memiliki pasangan yang terhormat. Coba saja tengok kisah perempuan dalam novel karangan Jane Austen, yang banyak bercerita tentang kehidupan kaum aristocrat dan bangsawan pada abad 18-19 masehi. Elisabeth Bennet, dalam kisah Pride and Pejudice, yang tinggal di keluarga yang tidak kaya tapi berkecukupan, harus melihat dan merasakan saudari-saudarinya ‘ditawarkan’ pada acara-acara tertentu untuk mendapatkan pasangan. Dirinya pun mengalami nasib serupa, meskipun akhirnya bisa menikah dengan laki-laki yang dia cintai, yang kebetulan memiliki kekayaan melimpah. A perfect Cinderella Story, every little girl’s dream, becoming a princess that saved by a prince from the evil dragon and witches.
Kemajuan yang mendera peradaban manusia, ternyata tidak membawa dampak positif yang signifikan bagi kaum perempuan, di luar dari pendidikan bagi kaum perempuan oleh R.A. Kartini, munculnya Megawati Soekarno Putri sebagai presiden perempuan pertama di Indonesia, dan banyak lagi cerita kemajuan yang dicapai perempuan. Di belahan bumi yang lain perempuan masih berada pada posisi subordinat, menilik kisah perempuan dalam novel non fiksi karangan Nawal El Sadawi membuka mata tentang kondisi perempuan di negara muslim – tidak menggeneralisasikan semua perempuan di banyak negara muslim – yang masih terikat dengan aturan laki-laki sebagai nomor satu. Banyak dari kaum perempuan yang menikah di usia muda, mengalami penyunatan dan penutupan labia hanya untuk memuaskan keinginan kaum laki-laki. Kaum perempuan di beberapa Negara Afrika juga mengalami nasib serupa, seperti yang pernah diceritakan dalam Oprah Winfrey Show beberapa waktu silam. Di Negara berpopulasi terbesar di dunia, China, aturan anak satu untuk setiap keluarga, ‘memaksa’ keluarga ‘menyingkirkan’ anak yang lain, lebih mudah bila anak yang dibuang adalah perempuan. Karena anak laki-laki adalah berharga. Di Korea, dimana neo-confucianisme adalah agama, perempuan adalah subordinat bagi laki-laki. Bila seorang perempuan menikah dengan laki-laki, dia akan terlepas sepenuhnya dari keluarganya. Itu hanya beberapa contoh dari ‘takdir’ perempuan sebagai kaum subordinat, yang sebenarnya diterima sebagai yang seharusnya oleh perempuan sendiri. Di luar dari posisi perempuan sebagai subordinat, di beberapa Negara atau budaya. Kita tetap harus melihat kemajuan yang dicapai oleh perempuan.
Sekarang beralih pada kaum laki-laki, yang selama ini dikenal sebagai makhluk ciptaan Tuhan nomor satu. Bahasa Inggris pun menamai manusia – human being – 'man’. Laki-laki telah dikenai peran sebagai pelindung, tameng bagi segala kesulitan hidup. Laki-laki tidak boleh menangis, laki-laki tidak boleh memiliki ketakutan terhadap suatu hal, dan tidak boleh memakai baju berwarna pink. Laki-laki adalah breadwinner keluarga, pencari nafkah, penerus nama keluarga atau marga. Laki-laki adalah pemimpin agama, pemimpin politik, presiden, dokter, pilot, sopir, pengusaha sukses, dan banyak lagi peran yang dikaitkan pada laki-laki. Bahkan di dunia militer, ada aturan yang mengharuskan laki-laki melindungi perempuan di tempat umum, seperti misalnya ketika naik tangga atau escalator di plaza yang ramai, seorang taruna harus berada di belakang si perempuan, melindungi. Mungkin kita bisa mendaftar peran dan perilaku yang identik dengan laki-laki lebih panjang lagi. Bila dipikir-pikir, laki-laki juga subordinat bagi peran-peran yang dilekatkan baginya. Apakah dia tidak boleh menangis di saat dia tertekan? Bisa gila tuh laki.
Kembali pada persoalan awal. Ada apa antara laki-laki dan hujan? Kenapa mereka yang begitu kuat bisa takut hujan dan menjadi basah? Bila kaum laki-laki ditanya, ada beberapa jawaban yang bisa terlontar.
“Lho, daripada basah waktu ketemu pacar, kan tidak lucu.” (ungkapan laki-laki yang harus tampil ganteng di depan pacarnya.)
“Kalau menjemput pacar dan kehujanan, kasihan dianya, bisa sakit.” (ungkapan laki-laki yang merasa kalau pacarnya harus dilindungi, karena kena hujan berarti penyakit.)
“Besoknya harus kerja atau kuliah, kalau sakit bisa berabe.” (ungkapan laki-laki yang memperhatikan masa depan dirinya)
“Kata mama, jangan hujan-hujanan, bisa sakit.” (ungkapan laki-laki yang sangat memperhatikan kekuatiran ibunya, alias anak mama.)
“Saya baru mencuci motor (atau mobil) saya, eman kalau kena hujan.” (ungkapan laki-laki yang mencintai propertinya dan hemat air.)
“Saya naik motor, kalau hujan deras dan maksa pergi, namanya bunuh diri. Kan jalannya nggak keliatan.” (ungkapan laki-laki yang punya motor dan terlalu banyak nonton film thriller, tapi cukup rasional)
“Saya baru dari salon, hujan berarti duit perawatan terbuang percuma dong.” (ungkapan cowok metroseksual yang naik motor dan hemat uang.)
“Kalau kena hujan, berarti basah.” (ungkapan laki-laki yang tidak nyambung dengan pertanyaannya. Menjawab dengan jawaban retoris.)
Masih ada 2,5 milyar jawaban berbeda dari laki-laki di muka bumi ini. Kesimpulannya?
Setiap laki-laki berbeda, jawaban yang diberikan mungkin pula berbeda. Kita tidak bisa menggeneralisasikan laki-laki berdasarkan jawaban yang mereka lontarkan di atas. Ada laki-laki yang memang peduli dengan kesehatan dan melindungi pacarnya dari hujan, yang menurut perubahan iklim saat ini mengandung zat asam yang berbahaya untuk kesehatan. Ada pula yang memang hanya mempedulikan dirinya sendiri, khususnya yang mengeluarkan uang banyak untuk perawatan dirinya. Ada juga laki-laki yang memang tidak suka menjadi basah, karena fobia terhadap air. Semua alasan bisa dan tidak bisa dipersalahkan.
Sekarang pertanyaannya adalah, bila menyangkut cinta, perasaan yang mengikat dua individu jadi satu, apakah ketakutan laki-laki terhadap hujan bisa dibenarkan? Ada yang bilang untuk menguji kadar perasaan cinta seorang laki-laki pada perempuan adalah dengan menyuruh laki-laki itu menjemput kekasihnya saat hujan turun. Maukah dia? Atau dia akan melontarkan seribu alasan, seperti tercantum di atas. Apakah laki-laki akan mendahulukan logika, seperti yang seharusnya dilakukan laki-laki, atau mendengarkan kata hatinya yang terikat pada perempuan itu? Apapun alasannya, hanya laki-laki yang bisa menjawab ketakutan atau keengganan mereka terhadap hujan. Perempuan di sisi lain juga bisa mempertanyakan kadar perasaan laki-laki terhadapnya ketika beberapa tetes air dari langit mencegah laki-laki tersebut menjadi pangeran berkuda putih dan menjemputnya ke tempat yang teduh. Bagaimana dengan pasanganmu?
p.s. tulisan ini bisa diperdebatkan, lha wong cuma uneg2 yang muncul tiba-tiba.
ada opini lain?boleh diungkapkan.
Minggu, 29 Juni 2008
Selasa, 24 Juni 2008
Too many sleep...
Hi, i'm back.
To tell the truth i've been a naughty girl lately. Lazy. The last 2 days, i've been unable to work properly. The first day i overslept, literally. I slept at 7 am and woke up at 11, working nonstop until 30 past 4 in the morning, than sleep again. The next day (yesterday) i slept at 30 past 6 at night and woke up 5 in the morning. So unproductive.
I feel so guilty in a way i cannot finish all my work on time, i wasted my time and done absolutely nothing.
From that i learn somethings:
From that i learn somethings:
1. I need to reset my work clock.
2. I have to spend my time wisely, leave all the crap work outside my juridiction, and do the things on my A list.
3. Rest enough, cause a girl sure need her beauty sleep.
4. Love life, cause all the wasted time will never coming back, i cannot save it, nor throw it away.
Senin, 23 Juni 2008
Retreat in Silence...a realization
Three days of silence...far away from work. I calm myself and seek God.
I realize that i have no clue about my life. I thought i knew it but now i doubt it.
I thought i was a smart and wise person, it turned out that i am a careless, sloppy, and bewildered individual.
I don't know what are the focus of my life. I don't know what He wants from me in my life.
Now, i have decide to do some things...i realize i have to plan my life, my future even though it's remain a mistery. I have to decide some things that are congenial with my existence.
1. Seek the focus of life.
2. Do i really want to work as an educator for the rest of my life? or moving to the 'money businness'?
3. If i remain as an educator, i have to seek my specialty. What are the main lesson i want to teach?because working with so many intelligent people bluring my perspective and leave me with unfocused sight. Life without focus is the same with living with other people's direction. I'm just a puppet. LEARNING A LOT!
4. Decide my life plan, 10 years, 20 years, 30 years, and 40 years from now. One thing for sure, going abroad is one of my main steps.
5. Taking care of my finance, because i'm so careless that i cannot save one dime in my saving account, that ought to be changed.
6. Seeking and waiting for a soulmate, a husband. Someone who definitely can accept for who, what i am and who / what i will become.
My work days exhaust me in a way.
I confused, what happened to me?
Now i come to a realization, that...
I still confuse with my life,
with the 'it' thing that i pursue.
I have to decide what i will become,
even thought the future still misty and blur.
The future still a mistery,
but one can plan for a future,
in case the plan suited with Him.
I realize that i have no clue about my life. I thought i knew it but now i doubt it.
I thought i was a smart and wise person, it turned out that i am a careless, sloppy, and bewildered individual.
I don't know what are the focus of my life. I don't know what He wants from me in my life.
Now, i have decide to do some things...i realize i have to plan my life, my future even though it's remain a mistery. I have to decide some things that are congenial with my existence.
1. Seek the focus of life.
2. Do i really want to work as an educator for the rest of my life? or moving to the 'money businness'?
3. If i remain as an educator, i have to seek my specialty. What are the main lesson i want to teach?because working with so many intelligent people bluring my perspective and leave me with unfocused sight. Life without focus is the same with living with other people's direction. I'm just a puppet. LEARNING A LOT!
4. Decide my life plan, 10 years, 20 years, 30 years, and 40 years from now. One thing for sure, going abroad is one of my main steps.
5. Taking care of my finance, because i'm so careless that i cannot save one dime in my saving account, that ought to be changed.
6. Seeking and waiting for a soulmate, a husband. Someone who definitely can accept for who, what i am and who / what i will become.
My work days exhaust me in a way.
I confused, what happened to me?
Now i come to a realization, that...
I still confuse with my life,
with the 'it' thing that i pursue.
I have to decide what i will become,
even thought the future still misty and blur.
The future still a mistery,
but one can plan for a future,
in case the plan suited with Him.
Senin, 16 Juni 2008
Kungfu....Po!
A hilarious cartoon movie...or should i say animated movie has drawn my attention and laugh nerve system..literally. Yesterday night, together with a bunch of church friends, i watched Kungfu Panda. No high expectation, i sit down unprepared for what i will received. My nerve system has already became tense for a day activities, so i expect for a mere entertainment. It turned out that i laughed from the beginning until the end. If i could say, the creator of the movie is a genious! Combination of great animation, flexible muscle, and terrific artists as the dubber. Behind the great artwork i can see a lot of criticism and values from the creator:
1. It's okay to become fat. All your fat are incredible in absorbing other's power...and it's great blanket on winter plus great trampolin for you foe. Fat and big is the new thin.
2. It's a nature for someone who has great knowledge to become arrogant (like Tigress), and yet humility is the essence to a greater knowledge. As high as a mountain you can soaring up, eventually you will come down.
3. There is no secret ingredients, the only thing is a special self, ourselves. No matter what we are or what we become in the world, we have to think ourselves as unique individuals.
4. Think not about the past and future. Past is history, future is a mistery, TODAY IS A BLESSING that's way it called PRESENT (now/GIFT) -> Oogway's words.
5. Family are not always related by blood or species, like Po and his father. No duck can bring out Panda, that's out of the question. Yet sometimes that kind of relationship hold tighter than blood.
6. Carbs can give enough power to become a gymnastic athletes. Like Po who suddenly able to do a perfect split just because of Monkey's cookies preservation.
7. Duck's feather can become a great key to unlock any doors, even a cage for cruel prisoner.
8. Imagination can take you far away, if you do it along with a great effort.
9. Fans are the term for learning something deeply than anyone else. Like Po who are big fans of 5 warriors.
10. Teacher often smaller than the student...e.g. Shifu vs Tai Lung or Shifu vs Po or Yoda.
Basically, Kungfu Panda is ordinary in plot but great in artwork and expression of the characters. It's a good combination of Matrix Movie, Slapstick comedy, little bit Asian humour and the personification of Chinese Kungfu skills.
Love it.
Rabu, 04 Juni 2008
Humanity?
What is humanity? Something that humans do? Something that the world see as good, pure, and valuable? When people talking about humanity while their surrounding crowded with pauper's tears, orphan's search of agreeable parents, workers stomped by their masters, and even teenage juvenile delinquency, which one is concerned with humanity or the nature of human?
For centuries human lived in chaotic, yet obscure world. Born, grow, old, and die are cycle of life. For centuries human search for heaven, salvation, easiness in life. Some succeed, some falling apart. Human evolve from nothingness, ill-mannered savage to high intellectual noble prize winners. Human cooperate, at one time, then parted by wars at other occasion, for mere justification of their presence.
Human found God, on some religions God found human. Still, human with their broad mind, yet sometimes tiny heart for care, seek other direction for peace that they think they can find it. Human seek far and wide in the world where horizon is their boundaries. Still, people search the filling of their life.
Human were designed as social persona, which means he/she able to feel, touch, see, smell, and hear other people presence, of course in exception of disable people. Human were designed to connect with their kind, to build relationship, to share views and living together. When they are alone, they're not human in the matter of social persona context. When their kinds are in despair and lack of ability to defend themselves in the hard and ambiguous world, what should human do? Standing still, watching, and think 'that's not my business!' or they can pull their sleeves, approach, and asking 'What can i do to help you?'.
Idealistic, romantic, and grand design of human character. Yet, some human, or that what they see from themselves, chose to be individualistic, self-centered, egoistic, and having a living-in-my-own-world-kind of attitude. Cunning, save-their-own-butt-view of life, and think they will live a hundred years of mere joy. Am i being sarcastic? Cynical? Perhaps. Cause sometimes, even a lot of times, i bear the same attitude and character of the individualistic persona. I am not a saint or Mother Theresa who dedicate her life for others. I am in the position of questioning myself, my being, my purpose in life, and what lesson does He gives me daily. Yes, i believe God has to do with anything that happened in my life.
Humanity, once again, is the same with insanity? Cause other times i see kindhearted, noble, and pure heart persons get scolded because he/she undoubtedly help other people who are in need. In the world where honesty, open mind, and clean thought are rare, people with conscience are sought. Weary human needs ears that will listen; burdened human needs pat on the back and words that say 'Life is beautiful, live it to the fullest. All your problem will be solved eventually. I will be here with you.'; poor people need shelter above their heads, yet warm smile and hugs are the best support.
Where are the humanity in the world right now? Have i done the human part of me toward other people, or am i still living in my comfort cocoon, not realizing that separation of me and other human means devastation for me?
For centuries human lived in chaotic, yet obscure world. Born, grow, old, and die are cycle of life. For centuries human search for heaven, salvation, easiness in life. Some succeed, some falling apart. Human evolve from nothingness, ill-mannered savage to high intellectual noble prize winners. Human cooperate, at one time, then parted by wars at other occasion, for mere justification of their presence.
Human found God, on some religions God found human. Still, human with their broad mind, yet sometimes tiny heart for care, seek other direction for peace that they think they can find it. Human seek far and wide in the world where horizon is their boundaries. Still, people search the filling of their life.
Human were designed as social persona, which means he/she able to feel, touch, see, smell, and hear other people presence, of course in exception of disable people. Human were designed to connect with their kind, to build relationship, to share views and living together. When they are alone, they're not human in the matter of social persona context. When their kinds are in despair and lack of ability to defend themselves in the hard and ambiguous world, what should human do? Standing still, watching, and think 'that's not my business!' or they can pull their sleeves, approach, and asking 'What can i do to help you?'.
Idealistic, romantic, and grand design of human character. Yet, some human, or that what they see from themselves, chose to be individualistic, self-centered, egoistic, and having a living-in-my-own-world-kind of attitude. Cunning, save-their-own-butt-view of life, and think they will live a hundred years of mere joy. Am i being sarcastic? Cynical? Perhaps. Cause sometimes, even a lot of times, i bear the same attitude and character of the individualistic persona. I am not a saint or Mother Theresa who dedicate her life for others. I am in the position of questioning myself, my being, my purpose in life, and what lesson does He gives me daily. Yes, i believe God has to do with anything that happened in my life.
Humanity, once again, is the same with insanity? Cause other times i see kindhearted, noble, and pure heart persons get scolded because he/she undoubtedly help other people who are in need. In the world where honesty, open mind, and clean thought are rare, people with conscience are sought. Weary human needs ears that will listen; burdened human needs pat on the back and words that say 'Life is beautiful, live it to the fullest. All your problem will be solved eventually. I will be here with you.'; poor people need shelter above their heads, yet warm smile and hugs are the best support.
Where are the humanity in the world right now? Have i done the human part of me toward other people, or am i still living in my comfort cocoon, not realizing that separation of me and other human means devastation for me?
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