Makassar, Dec, 6th 2015
07:13
I read some articles on korean’s article
translation blog this morning. Something that I always do the moment I wake up.
It’s like reading newspaper in the morning with a cup of tea. The difference is
that I read it with half-opened eyes, messy hair, oily face, and body still
stuck on the bed. Yeah.
There’s one article this morning that sparked
my interest. You can see it here. The title is ‘Send A Text To
Yourself 5 Years Ago’. This is a discussion kind of thing. Like someone
choose a topic, a common or rare topic, and netizens give their opinion or
share experience about the topic. I always like this kind of article. We can
find that some of the comments are so relatable to us, some of them are crazy
as hell, confusing, unpredictable, hard to believe, awesome, etc. You will find
someone shared their experience and you’ll be amazed by that, terrified,
disgusted, touched, and so on. It’s fun to read something different from others
perspective.
Some of the comments from this article are
making me sad. For example that ‘Do not
let your wife and kids ride on the taxi’. This words could hint about an
accident, right? Like this person tried to warn himself 5 years ago to tell his
beloved ones not to take taxi because an accident will happen. I feel sorry.
And also that one about fire accident. ‘In 2 years, there will be a fire report at
a green house at 3AM. It will not look like there are people but check again.
There will be a young girl hiding under the bed’. What do you think
happened to that young girl?
And one of the netizen commented, ‘January 3, 2014, midnight. Your dad doesn’t
have an upset stomatch. Call an ambulance’. I don’t want to know what
happened to his father.
But there are also funny comments that made
me smiling in amusement. Like ‘It doesn’t
look cool to write lyrics on Facebook status!!!’. Hahaha that’s so
relatable, that was me :’) . Or ‘You
can’t hold your poop on October 12, 2012’. :) :) :).‘It’s OK to walk out of the wedding!’, something
embarrassing must have happened, lol. And also ‘Ciel Phantomhive isn’t a real person... start crushing on a real
person.. like So Ji Sub’, I was once obsessed with Sasuke Uchiha...
And that lottery ticket one, haha.
Some of them also made me asdfghjkl because I
can relate so much. Like ‘You will be too
emotionally invested in korean boys dancing in sync, but that’s not the
problem. You should speak up more and stop being such an awkward pickle’, well
yeah.. talking about future. ’11 May
2012, dont come home late. Your cat is suffering and wont make it pass 10 pm’, :(.
Highlight to ‘Don’t study last minute, the last time we had an exam I still did
it anyway.
Reading this discussion makes me want to list
all of those things I want to tell to myself 5 years ago. Because honestly
theres SO MUCH TO TELL and I would like to text her advices if it’s possible.My
old self was suffering a lot and suffering even more now. God will punish me
for this. Mom always tell me to love ourselves and take care of our selves
because God will be angry if we don’t.
So like, if only we could turn back the time
I would’ve warned myself before something bad happened. But it’s not possible.
So I’ll just list them down and text my old self later when an ability or a way
to connect with older generation is available. We never know science and its
shits.
Send Text To Yourself 5 Years
Ago
1)
Please eat a lot, take care of
your body.
2)
Don’t tell your bestfriends
you have a crush on one of your classmate at course.
3)
It’s okay to not follow what
your parents tell you to do, it’s okay to be against them.
4)
Stop following your crush.
5)
Take social class, don’t
follow your parents wish.
6)
In 4 years you will have a
crush on someone four years older than you and you’ll embarrass yourself a lot.
7)
Don’t read in a sleep position
and in a dark place, wearing glasses is horrible.
8)
Raise your hand if you want to
answer a question or voice out an opinion, don’t be afraid.
9)
In 2011, you’ll get a second
chance to registered in your favorite high school, take it.
10)
You’ll find Kpop in 2011 and
you’ll fucked.
11)
Be pretty.
12)
Don’t lose your contest
ceritificates, I warn you.
13)
Finish your writings and
publish it, make people appreciate you.
14)
Take your second chance to
join SBMPTN in 2015, don’t miss it.
15)
You’ll be in biology class
doing exam and you’ll take your friend’s paper and copy her answers in the last
minute and you’ll collect your paper without hers and the teacher won’t accept
her paper anymore when she frantically begged the teacher to accept it.
Apologize to her.
That’s not all of them, but ¼ of all are revealed. People full of
regrets, so am I. But something like discovered korean music is not something
that I’m really regret at. It’s a blessing, honestly. We live in a place where
people think that those who listen to kpop are alay and those who listen to western music are cool as fuck. That
was me before I found kpop. And seems like I got karma. But it’s a beautiful
karma, excuse you. Listen to other type of music other than westerns and get to
know people with the same taste of music teach me how to think more open about
music and human race. I’m not an music expert but it helps me expand my music
dictionary, how music is not always about
language, what’s more important is how you get the feels of what the singer
try to tell you through their music, how you could enjoy the music even though
you still don’t understand the meaning of the song, and there are many talented
people in Asia who could compose and produce music as beautiful as the western
people do, with more meaningful and deeper lyrics, and a total dedication they
give to their music. I’ve found a lot. And I feel blessed for finding them.
Imagine if I keep that narrow perspective of mine, I would’ve missed a lot of
good things.
My once narrow perspective about Asian music was gone after I listened
to Korean musics and learned many things from both the artists and fans. And I
feel so thankful for that??? At least I don’t have to judge Asian music and the
people again without actually know what I judge and make myself look stupid,
lol.
Damn, did I just write short essay about kpop? Sorry, the spirit is on
fire. I would’ve written longer but that’s not the only topic here, is it? However,
that was something that I really want to say since long time ago and glad I’ve
finally got time to write about it.
My 15 things that I want to text to myself 5 years ago are there. If
you have one, what would that be?
