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" A couple of hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin shared with the world the secret of his success. Never leave that till tomorrow, he said, which you can do today. This is the man who discovered electricity. You think more people would listen to what he had to say. I don't know why we put things off, but if I had to guess, I'd have to say it has a lot to do with fear. Fear of failure, fear of rejection, sometimes the fear is just of making a decision, because what if you're wrong? What if you're making a mistake you can't undo? The early bird catches the worm. A stitch in time saves nine. He who hesitates is lost. We can't pretend we hadn't been told. We've all heard the proverbs, heard the philosophers, heard our grandparents warning us about wasted time, heard the damn poets urging us to seize the day. Still sometimes we have to see for ourselves. We have to make our own mistakes. We have to learn our own lessons. We have to sweep today's po...

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Gue selalu bilang bahwa hari yang palling membahagiakan dalam kurun waktu setahun, adalah: 1. Hari lebaran 2. Hari ulang tahun Istilahnya kayak intermezzo setelah sekian banyak hari lo yang begitu-begitu aja. Flat-flat aja, di hari-hari bahagia itu, rasanya setiap detik yang lo jalanin punya arti. Gak mesti yang dalem. Yg jelas punya arti dan penuh harap. Tahun ini gue dapet sesuatu yang, secara moril, bikin pikiran gue ga mampu menjangkau esensi logis dari hal ini. Kalo hukum Lavoisier bilang bahwa produk akan selalu sama dengan hasil, kehidupan nggak akan selalu sepaham dengan dia. Gue kadang ngerasa kalo gue bukan orang yang tepat untuk diperlakukan sebaik itu. Apa sih yang udah gue kasih? Apa sih yang pernah gue lakukan sampe rasanya ruang antara gue dan hal positif bagai kutub-kutub muatan yang berlawanan tanda. Mereka nempel. Disaat tertentu, disaat itu, semua nempel sampe bikin lo mikir lo belom sebaik itu untuk bisa dapet hal-hal sebaik ini di waktu yang bahkan ga punya ja...
semangat.