Fauzia

I stared at me through the mirror for a long time And I devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about people. Then ask the same question over and over  “Am I normal? What’s the difference between me and them?” “Orang dewasa yang umurnya udah nggak muda, tapi bersikap tidak dewasa dan berlagak jadi orang bijak ternyata menjadi populasi terbesar manusia di dunia.” Mendadak, gue teringat sama beberapa paragraph punya Stephen Colbert yang sempat gue sisipkan di naskah Aksara Rasa  “Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say no. But saying “yes” begins things. Saying “yes” is how things grow. Saying “yes” leads to knowledge. “