Friday, April 8, 2011

Merealisasikan Mimpi!

Benarkah mimpi hanya wujud di alam tidur? Benarkah ia sekadar mainan minda dan angan? Sekadar fantasi di lautan ingin?

Argh, bukan senang untuk mencapai apa yang kita impikan. Bukan mudah untuk mencicip enaknya kejayaan. Lurah dan liku tajam menusuk. Ada duri dalam sekam. Apatah lagi sembilu yang zahirnya agak kelihatan.

Aku termenung panjang. Dahan yang kusangkakan teguh, rupanya rapuh. Malah turut ‘menghadiahi’ selumbar yang dalamnya tidak mungkin tidak, bakal bernanah. Jua kemilau harap yang rupa-rupanya biasan tebu di bibir. Benarlah kata seorang tua kepadaku sewaktu dulu. ‘Trust no one, but yourself. Not even your family and spouses.’

‘How about God? ‘

‘Sure,’ he said, ‘have faith, but don’t rely on others in full. Delegate works, but be prepared to be disappointed in other’s result.’

Aku mahu merealisaikan mimpiku. Sampai bila mahu bergantung kepada orang lain bagi kelangsungan hidup. Penatnya tidak terkata, tetapi hasilnya tidak mampu membuatkan aku tersenyum lebar. Terkadang, bukan material menjadi ukuran, tetapi kepuasan dan ‘bekalan’ untuk Dian dan mereka yang lain menjadi keutamaan.

Menyedari hakikat diri yang kurang mampu berkarya serajin orang lain, aku beralah. Terlalu banyak perkara di minda membuatkan aku tidak mampu untuk betul-betul berkarya sebagus, sekerap dan sebebas dahulu. Bukan merendah diri, tetapi aku sedar kekuranganku. ‘Membersihkan’ dan ‘mencantikkan’ karya. Itu kekuatanku.

Dan apabila melihat karya itu mendapat sambutan dan menerima pujian atas mutunya, ia menjadi satu ‘bayaran’ yang tidak ternilai. Memberi ‘santapan’ minda kepada para pembaca adalah satu kepuasan dan ‘saham’ untuk ke sana. Melihat pengkarya menjadi ternama dan menerima imbuhan yang bukan sedikit menimbulkan sedikit ralat. Tidak dinafikan, iri itu ada. Tetapi ia bernada positif. Agar diri turut sama aktif berkarya seperti mereka. Tidak lebih daripada itu.

Alangkah susahnya merealisasikan mimpi!

Tuhan, restuilah aku!

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Have you ever feel mellow?

April always makes me feels so uncertain. Mixed feelings. A lot of good stuff happened in April. Sad memories, too. I was born at the end of April. It is a new beginning of another chapter in my journal of life. I met and lost someone that means a lot to me in April. Parting is sweet sorrow, what an expression! When there’s someone else who’ll be hurt, it’s easy to be selfish, to think only of yourself. It’s almost easier to do nothing and just let things slide. Add on another layer of numbness. And another layer of lackness. Till we don't know what to feel anymore.

So far, the only thing for certain in my existence is disappointment and frustration. Mine alone. I didn’t blame anyone or anything. Maybe, I am just so tired of living. My will to live cease away without me realising it. The reasons to go on seems nil and worthless. The tunnel is still dark and frightening. But life is a constant struggle. And the biggest enemy is our own self. So, stand up and keep fighting. There’s light at the end of the tunnel. Come on!

Every time April is approaching, I do fell excited as well as anxious to know what it brings me. And this year, do any of my dream will be materialised?

Friday, March 25, 2011

Finally

I finally understood.

Not everybody can understand us. Just a handful that really do. The rest of it just pretending or think they know us, but they don’t. Not really. Or they just have glimpses of whoever we are. Some of us just saw the mere reflection of the inner self, of who we really are.

The truth is complicated. And life makes it more twisted and delicate. It also a process to learn and to know who we really are. And the person around us. Who is real and who is not.

Somehow, some thing better leave unsaid.

Well, that’s life.