Stood and Stand

by Citra Maharani

Stood and Stand
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Do you like it to be here?
I do.
Do, anything, ever too much to ask from me?
They're just the right amount.
It's not ever too much or too little for you?
I said what i said.
Once you tell me, that you're all ears, but
somehow my brain lead me to not trust you.
You have your own option,
and choice.
And i chose to follow the rythm.
...
It is hard, you know,
I don't even know where am i now,
I don't know where this going to be,
it's swallowing me everytime,
I'm wonderiing if i could just quiet,
and do nothing,
will i ever be,
me?
...

Looking at tress, here, they change every season,
they do change,
they do grow,
they,
they exist.
...
I want to be a bee, instead of butterflies,
but bee dies once they sting,
and i,
I cant even regulate my anger.
...
I,
I,
...
Let's go, for a walk, up up.


...
...
Last spring, with the sunset,
there is lake,
comfy place.


...
I both confused and,
empty,
i always be happy,
i do my assignment well,
i do eat well,
i do sleep well,
i do socialize damn too well,
but why ya, i keep struggling in,
being me?
...
Why you always looking at me like that?
You love to talk, to me.

Am i dissapointing you?
that i, not like my looks,
is that why you always looking at me,
when i talk?
...
I know, im breaking your expectation,
everytime, 
i open my mouth,
i know ive been draining you,
with facing my problems,
i know. 
...
Outside, maybe there is someone that not fake as me,
vulnerable as me,
selfish as me,
individualist as me,
someone who truly fine,
and,
truly kind.
...
and i genuinely hope you to find that,
wherever you need
to find it.
Look, same street, different emotion.


...
...
I hate it when you be like this.
Don't you remember?
...
...
I was,
putting my hope,
yes, here,
last year,
how could you..?
...


I said, don't look me like that.
...
...
every emotion, everything in this world,
could always dissapear
at any single times,
we're human,
we make mistakes,
we can dissapoint too,
that's my simplest reason to be grateful
for being known by you.
...

Iya, everyone is having their own battle,
even cats.


...
someone like you, 
and me,
and that 'outside someone' you mentioned.
...
Human dont 'need' it,
I don't need it,
I don't need 'that' things,
In every option that im enable of choosing,
In universe that i can live without your talk,
In condition that i can handle without depending on you,
I, always, ever, chose to be here.
...
You don't even know, 
where you are,
yet, you still,
asking me,
whether i like to be here or not.


...
Every life of human,
is unique,
and here,
i want to find out why,
everytime, always,
why, my favorite human life is,
you.
But forever was never ours to begin with.
of course, that's why,
goodbye is unevitable,
...
Like, what are you so afraid of,
when nothing in this world,
belongs to you?
we must learn to proceed,
without certainty,
dont we?
yes, like,
if when we were 30 failures away
from our goal,
how fast would you
want to fail?
hmm, but life doesnt wait for us to be okay.
we'll find a way
to be okay?
silly.

Aku pernah menyatakan pendapat, bahwasanya suatu masa atau period of time tidak akan semudah itu mengubah orang yang udah hidup selama masanya. Katakan 3 bulan seseorang tidak akan semudah itu mengubah dirinya yang sudah hidup selama 20 tahun dengan state dan virtue yang dia yakini. Iya, virtu, hal yang aku pelajari di mata kuliah Keamanan Personil. Sudah kuduga, kalau dengan kelekatan kata personil di dalam mata kuliah ini, pembahasan perihal manusia sebagai rantai terlemah dalam sistem keamanan pasti ada. Hal yang menurutku lucu adalah ketika dosenku membahas soal integritas di dalam virtu ini.

Virtu seseorang menunjukkan integritasnya. Sebagai contoh, seseorang yang virtunya adalah orang yang social butterfly, 24/7 selalu tersenyum no matter what, make the room brighter, haruslah memang selalu begitu, sama dengan seorang koruptor. Hah, koruptor? Iya. Koruptor yang memiliki virtu dan integritas adalah koruptor yang senantiasa korupsi, atau dalam lain konsisten, konsisten dengan apa yang dilakukan. AHAHAHA, menurutku lucu sih karena somehow, virtu akan menjadi virtu ketika dia konsisten, entah konsisten di sisi yang tidak sesuai atau sesuai. 

Dari sinilah, walau waktu perkuliahan tersisa -10 menit, iya udah overtime, dan seharusnya kami melanjutkan kegiatan lain, otakku justru baru bekerja. Biasanya aku selalu memilih diam untuk kebanyakan mata kuliah, karena ya selain kadang aku merasa ngantuk, aku memilih untuk memfokuskan tenagaku untuk menyerap materi dibanding mengkritisi ilmu yang kudapat dan membandingkannya dengan prinsip-prinsip yang selama ini kupercaya. Mahasiswa ga kritis ya, gais. Maklum, 11 semester kuliah ini membuatku cukup jenuh dengan yang namanya 'kuliah'. Oke balik, dosenku menambahkan hal yang cukup kontras dengan virtu tadi. Bahwa, ketika berkoneksi dengan orang lain, orang yang udah mencapai puncak atau peak dari manusia sosial adalah mereka yang bisa ngobrol dengan siapapun. 

Emang di mana letak kontrasnya? Ketika beliau berkata bahwa hal yang aku sebutin tadi bisa diraih ketika kita bisa fleksibel sebagai orang yang menyetujui dulu apa pun perkataan lawan bicara dan itu berlaku ke semua orang, jadi jangan kaku, ketika sama A, ya kamu A, sama B ya B. Langsung lah aku, entah kenapa juga ya aku merasa tersindir karena seringkali aku juga melakukan hal itu, 'Bukannya itu bearti mencerminkan orang itu plin plan, tidak ada virtu di dalam dirinya dan hanya ingin memperbanyak relasi untuk memuaskan ego sosialnya?' Yap, itu pertanyaanku, pertanyaan tentang aku. 

Cukup terkejutnya beliau yang awalnya sudah prepare keluar kelas di dekat pintu, kembali masuk lagi ke tengah kelas kami. Beliau tertawa. 'Justru itulah manfaat virtu, kalau virtu kita jelas dan tembus pandang, di mana pun kita, apa pun itu, orang akan menghargai kita.' Aku masih tidak paham dan memasang muka tidak setuju. Beliau pun menambahkan, 'Dengan virtu, seperti cerita saya, saya bisa bergaul dengan orang peminum pemabuk dan tetap dihargai. Apakah ketika saya mengobrol dengan mereka, berdiskusi dan nyambung dengan mereka, menjadikan saya seorang peminum juga?'

Mungkin jawabanku tidak terlalu sesuai dengan pertanyaan beliau, 'Berarti di tahap apa kita tahu kita tetap bisa menyesuaikan kepribadian kita untuk membangun koneksi? Apakah tidak apa-apa?' Iya, pertanyaan kubalas dengan pertanyaan, beliau pun bertanya lagi, 'Orang berkoneksi, di tempatkan dalam keadaan yang sama, karna ada suatu tujuan, kalau dalam keadaan menuju tujuan itu dirasa sudah tidak sesuai, kan kita punya kontrol terhadap diri kita, iya bukan? Bisa distop atau dilanjut dengan risiko tertentu yang pastinya kita sudah memilih untuk menerimanya, setuju?' 'Kita bahas besok lagi ya, bisa 3 hari ini kalau lempar-lemparan, ahahaha,' tambahnya. 

Aku pun jadi teringat pendapat yang kusebutkan di awal tadi. Bahwa aku sepertinya harus merevisi kalimatku. Durasi bukan hal utama dalam suatu perubahan manusia. People change over time, sering kan kita dengar frasa ini. Untukku, seorang INTJ yang selama tes kepribadian di platform mana pun hasilnya tetap INTJ, aku merasa sangat INTJ bahwa aku memang tidak berubah-ubah sepertinya. Adapun kalau DISC, aku seorang D yang kuat dan aku setuju karena apa pun masalahnya, otakku pasti akan selalu speak out about the problems, bahkan saat aku udah membuatnya complicated. Iya, cukup berbeda dengan orang-orang I yang menangani konflik dengan express their feelings. 

Balik lagi, dua kali balik. Kalau bukan waktu lalu, apa? Menurutku, waktu masih penting walau bukan utama, karena ada apa di 'waktu' itulah yang paling utama. Diperlukan peristiwa atau variabel yang cukup besar, bukan sebesar Manhattan Project juga sih, untuk bisa memengaruhi perubahan seseorang. Mungkin kalau kalian membaca ini, kalian akan bertanya, 

'Lalu, apabila seorang manusia tidak menemui peristiwa atau hal tersebut, apakah bearti dia tidak akan berubah?'

Balik lagi, tiga kali, ke bagaimana kita memaknai perubahan, apa definisi perubahan menurut kita, karena balik lagi, empat kali, manusia itu unik dengan segala hal yang ada di kepala dan hatinya, dengan apa yang dia pikirkan dan rasakan. Pada dasarnya, dengan apa yang kupercayai, manusia itu tidak pernah berhenti berkembang. Setiap momen yang dilewati sapiens-sapiens ini pastilah melewati suatu titik di dalam dirinya, melewati 'waktunya'. Jadi ya, manusia 'bisa' berkembang di setiap waktunya. Entah dari peristiwa yang dialami di kesehariannya, pengalaman yang bisa dirasakan untuk dijadikan suatu pembelajaran, hal-hal ini bisa jadi pemantik untuk berkembang sesuai dengan apa yang didapatkan. Ingat, setiap manusia itu unik, jadi input yang sama, peristiwa yang sama, belum tentu berpengaruh sama ke orang yang berbeda, walaupun misal mereka berada di satu tempat, satu waktu, dan satu peristiwa yang plek ketiplek sama. Iya, dengan kata lain, aku berkata bahwa untuk mengubah suatu kumpulan manusia, itu benar-benar effort yang besar.

Hal yang lebih effort lagi adalah untuk menghargai manusia. Mengerti manusia itu dengan menghargainya dengan lebih baik. Menghargai seorang manusia tanpa melihat dirinya yang sekarang tanpa membebaninya dengan versi lamanya. Bagaimana manusia bisa terlihat berubah, berkembang dari sikap dan perilaku di kesehariannya, kalau kita melihatnya saja tidak netral? Kalau melihatnya saja, kita masih dengan pelabelan masa lalunya? Kalau kita saja memberikan ketakutan tak kasat mata itu?

Ya, memang kembali lagi, perubahan manusia bisa ke arah baik maupun buruk, tapi, siapalah kita, menentukan baik buruknya seseorang, seorang manusia yang belum sepenuhnya kita mengerti, bahkan diri sendiri pun masih selalu kita coba untuk pahami. 


*Mungkin kita bisa mempelajari Theory of Basic Human Values dari Shalom Schwartz tentang bagaimana dalam setiap keputusannya, manusia berupaya untuk menyeimbangkan ketegangan antara keinginan menjaga stabilitas diri dan kebutuhan untuk tumbuh serta berkontribusi bagi dunia luarnya


“To make the most of our human potential, we need to have as many varied experiences as we can.”

Imagination shapes our desires. We can have impressions of people based on our imaginations without knowing who they are. Stranger. Everyone new in our lives can be said as a stranger; even if we knew them previously, if we are away from them for a period of time, we become strangers to one another. It happens frequently as we dynamically introduce each other.

Yes, imagination shapes our desires, but in fact, we are both strangers to a miracle. Somewhat, somehow. In another way, we can break each other before we ever do such things. We're being funny in a foreign language as we have no idea or know each other. 

All of this shaped the way I thought about connections. I don't fully understand why some compliments exist in order to impress someone else, as I struggle with the existence of such compliments. The exposition given by the compliment is somewhat bothersome to me. When someone compliments you, it shows that your potential has already been exposed and seen by others. As a result, someone else knows of your experience or what you have been through as a whole, or at some point in your life. 

Trust won't be measured like a unit in physics laws. For someone who believes that love is never unconditional, admiration always comes with mystery. There is no such thing as easy when it comes to trust, because it exists or will exist in the way of your understanding of others. Almost is never enough. As Sapiens, we have experienced so much history that some argue that our DNA still remembers our past and is activated by such events when we are in survival mode. Yeah, although we know that this is all an illusion, at least I thought it was an illusion.

Then why? Why do some people prefer hurting themselves more than others, regardless of the fact that they want to have as many diverse experiences as possible? Rejection, loneliness, bitterness, and misery, all of them related? If you've already met such a person in your life, they would hide flaws as deep as the Pacific Ocean, manipulating their own feelings, in order to continue lying for their own system. They believed that 'knowing me more leads to loving me less'. Yes, indeed. Being known doesn't guarantee being loved. There is a part of us that believes something can be beautiful alongside suffering, as we have seen too much, or perhaps not enough. 

I don't have a conclusion for this question because I wrote it as a title. Some of you may have already read it, and they have their own conclusion or quote to answer this trap question. However, it is difficult for me to do so since I complicate things, and I was unable to uncover any wise ones. It's my comfort zone when someone only knows the idea of me, when I choose to make boundaries or, in extreme cases, keep someone at arm's length, when I decide not to express any truth for fear of being seen as too much for the mundane. 

It will stop by here since this question is bothering me in some way, as if it is just a piece of who I am. Love is a myth; it depends on who you are with, because it's quite sad when you've shared half of your life with someone only to learn that they're not the one.

sns

I hadn't imagined that I would be turning 22 in this kind of situation. I still find it hard to accept the fact that, in 2026, at the age of 22, my desperation to do my schoolwork and do well on exams keeps haunting me like ghosts and will continue to do so at least until next year, when I expect to graduate. In my time off, I came across a strong rain, which drove me to write, yes, this one. I'm not sure why, but I feel somewhat relieved that I will never stop learning because I spend a lot more time in "formal education" (read: kuliah kelamaan ahahah).

Even when I know exactly what to look for, I am always hard on myself, as I am honest with me. Living abroad last year was a truly provoking experience for me because I realized that although the world is so huge and I am so small, I have life and the opportunity to do anything as great as my God allows me. Lebarnya dunia terbentang, duniaku ternyata jauh lebih luas. Dreaming of something big that seems so strong and untamed makes me realize that no matter how bad things happen in this world, they seem meaningless in comparison to the thousands of opportunities that are waiting for me to turn them into reality, untuk menjadikannya ada menjadi salah satu dari realitas di kehidupan fanaku. Perhaps it's not just me, but when I think too much, I can't feel enough, and when I feel too much, I can't think clearly.

As humans with a high wall as a guard, some of us might feel hatred if others discover our vulnerability, as we continuously pretend to be strong and wise. But, darling, whoever you are that reads this one, believe me that maybe it's not today at this time, but someday, you will find someone that wants to know you more, someone that is always checking on how you're doing in life every now and then, someone that asks about your favorite food or where your favorite drink is sold, but most of all, you will find someone that will remember each and every one of your answers so well, even the most insignificant one.

Darling, you have to find yours and be grateful for them. Thank you for letting yourself be vulnerable in front of them, for hearing the stories you won't tell anyone else, for letting them see the side of you you won't show anyone else, and, above all else, for allowing them to understand your brokenness. I'm unsure how, but as I spend my time, think, and feel, maybe connection is what I need the most, and I can regain independence by connecting with my family, friends, or perhaps someone new.

In closing my prologue to my 2026 journey, I'd like to remind myself to enjoy the path, even if it has no meaning at times, and that everyone deserves to be seen. Also, for whoever that could be, I hope I can be mature and not choose to leave everything first, assuming that everything would leave me later, and to be someone who understands how to live as a human and for others.


ps. it's fun somehow since my prologue begins in early May

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