A Mindful Journey of Yohana Meyrida Simamora

Pagi tadi dibuka dengan kegiatan arisan rutin PIA AG 02-3/D.II Skadron Udara 32. Jadwal dimulainya kegiatan diumumkan  jam 7.30 namun dalam pelaksanaannya baru jam 8.40 terealisasi. Entah memang sengaja diumumkan waktunya demikian sebagai strategi demi mengantisipasi kecenderungan kita sebagai Ibu-ibu yang sering terlambat atau... kita yang terlalu toleran terhadap keterlambatan? ((Silahkan tanya pada diri kita masing-masing, bukan pada rumput yang bergoyang sayang!)) Jadi, kita sudah kalah 1 poin tentang masalah waktu. :) Kemudian, sesudah giat berakhir saya kembali menyayangkan kita yang meletakkan sampah di bawah tempat duduk kita atau di depan atau bahkan di samping kursi duduk. Kita kesulitan untuk membuang sampah di tempat sampah yang hanya beberapa langkah kaki dari tempat duduk kita. Padahal ada 2 tempat sampah terpampang nyata, MyLov. Ditambah lagi, tadi saya ketemu dengan kawan yang berprofesi sebagai dosen di sebuah PTN favorit Malang. Kita share sedikit dan ngompol ...

Not everyone is blessed with the capacity to ask for forgiveness. It is a common thing happened when you are on the right side, you are not hesitant to be more vocal. But, on the contrary if you're the wrong one, you tend to hide the truth and prefer to be silent. What is so wrong to admit your own fault and ask for others forgiveness? We are one big nation with religious-labelled country, we also come from various culture, yet we have still difficulty to admit if were wrong? What such a big self-ego we have! Not to mention anyone but I often seeing people who completely done wrong things, they blame the situations or other people for the mistakes they did. They come from a well-educated family, but to simple lil thing called admitting they are wrong, they CAN'T!!! Sorry not sorry, those people aren't worth befriending with anyone. The life we currently living is not always about you. We live side by side to support the system... and if you keep blaming others and hav...

"Menurutmu mana yang lebih enak: Jogja atau Malang?" Tanya Mama suatu sore ketika kami sedang berkendara berdua di tengah keramaian Malang. Saya terdiam. Merenung untuk membandingkan dua kota bersejarah ini. Bagaimanapun dua kota ini bukan kota-kota yang pernah terpikirkan untuk saya singgahi dalam kurun waktu lama. Dua kota ini semacam takdir untuk saya pernah huni. "Hmm, mana ya Ma..." saya mulai sulit berkata-kata, ibarat orang terjebak dalam nostalgia mantan yang lama. "Sepertinya Malang lebih nyaman." Celetuk Mama. Saya mengernyitkan dahi. "Bagian mananya?" Tanya saya pertanda tak setuju. "Liat saja betapa banyaknya bangunan gereja di sini. Gereja dan Masjid bisa tinggal berdampingan tanpa huru hara." jawab Mama. Seketika itu juga saya terdiam. Membenarkan pernyataan beliau namun masih dalam posisi berpikir. Saya mengingat masa-masa hidup di Jogja sekitar 10-12 tahun silam. Saya membayangkan betapa murah da...

Living in the kind of world filled with the junior and senior term makes me questioning the real purpose of having it into our interaction between other wives within Wives Association (WA). If the aim of maintaining that kind of interaction is to gain respect from your so-called junior, believe me it won't work and if it does it will be temporary.  I can't describe my disagreement to situation which there is a disparity between senior and junior, especially if the disparity aims to humiliate the ones you think you can fiercely intimidate. I think I'm enough to see the un evenness keeps on happening in our surroundings. I also can't stand to people who complains about their senior actions to them, BUT once they are in the position, they just DO the same thing! They instantly forget their feelings when they were in junior position.  Another situation also makes me want to puke every time there is someone saying "we are family". Being a family is not t...