B: Off course I'm afraid.
C: Don't you feel like "I'm really happy, but I shouldn't happy. Yet. Not now"?
B: Indeed. This will be a long way.
C: It even hasn't begun. *sigh*
Video ini jadi trending topic di YouTube, aksi Demian di tayangan America's Got Talent yang sukses buat keempat juri heboh dan membuatnya lolos ke babak berikutnya. Video di akun official AGT sudah mencapai 2 juta penonton dalam waktu kurang dari 24 jam. Aksi Demian memang memukau, tapi yang membuat saya tergelitik adalah membuka slot komentar di video tersebut. Ada yang nyinyir, ada yang bangga tapi yang pasti netizen Indonesia yang lebih banyak beradu argumen. Mulai dari yang mati-matian mencari celah trik Demian, mengkritik orang Indonesia overproud, macam-macam lah.
Sulap, dengan berbagai genre-nya, menurut saya tidak diciptakan untuk dinilai, dikritik & ditelanjangi trik-triknya dengan memutar ulang video berkali-kali. Ia adalah pertunjukan yang dinikmati secara langsung dan mengecoh satu atau dua indera kita sehingga membuat yang tidak mungkin menjadi (seperti) mungkin. Howie Mandel terperanjat, Simon Cowell tampak tak yakin harus bereaksi seperti apa. Juri-juri tersebut sudah menonton ratusan aksi lain, sehingga ketika mereka memberi reaksi positif atas aksi Demian, it's pretty validated right?
Enam tahun lalu, ketika Ciputra World dibuka untuk umum, saya cukup beruntung merasakan pengalaman menjadi volunteer untuk aksi Russian Roulette Demian seperti saya ceritakan di sini. Sampai sekarang pun saya tak tahu bagaimana Demian bisa "menggiring" saya untuk memilih paperbag yang itu, yang berpisau, dan bukan yang lain. But the thrilled is real, so what's wrong with magician doing tricks? It's an act that created to be enjoyed as a whole show, not a riddle to be guessed.
Alih-alih saya menghargai betul bagaimana Demian mengambil resiko dengan menyanggupi undangan produser AGT, seperti ia ungkapkan dalam berita ini. Saya yakin ia sadar betul bahwa langkahnya ini akan menjadi pro-kontra di dalam negeri, Pun dapat beresiko untuk karir yang sudah ia bangun sejak lama di sini. Ia bertaruh banyak hal dan mengikuti audisi sama dengan memulai lagi, babat alas. But for a headliner show at Las Vegas and a million dollars, I think it'll paid off. Jadi mengapa tidak kita nikmati dan beri semangat tanpa harus nyinyir panjang lebar?
C: May I speak? You could say that you just want to give her lesson, but it sounds like jealousy to me. No, you ARE jealous.
B: Me? I mean like she doesn't have any integrity and virtue to her own brain. She should look upon the truth and logically search the truest answer of the problem. I just show her the right way.
C: Please, don't make any excuse. You're not a Messiah. Just admit that you're jealous because she's taking side on your opposite. It's okay.
B: Perhaps I'm jealous, or not. But her attitude is not appropriate right?
C: It's her choice, though. Come on, let them go. Take the politic, maneuver and trick aside from your horizon. It's their problem if they wanna play dirty. If you jealous, it means you care. I believe you have higher capability, integrity, intention, et cetera. Don't let their moves take you down. Just raise your bar higher. For your own sanity and clarity. Will you?
Dawn, window opened and the fog just melt.
C: I’ve been thinking a lot, and on, and more, and for a
long time.
B: About?
C: About us, about you. Do you know when you’re really attractive
& cool to me?
B: When?
C: When you’re doing things that you love, passionately.
B: *smirk
C: So, this accident saddened me a lot not because of your
physical wound. I mean, yes it hurts you so it hurt me too but it’s not as hurt
as I saw you stare blankly from time to time. I hate that when you answered
nothing to my “what’s on your mind now” question. Obviously you’ve been full of
thought and not sharing ‘em just made me sad and scared at the same time.
B: Well…
C: So, my point is, perhaps, this series of low time are the
exact time where we should think over our purpose. Not only the career or
academic stuff like last time, but our life in general. Perhaps you should
really ask again, what’s your truest dream. What’s the thing that burning all
the time, you’d love them no matter what, through thick & thin? Making the
school, the boxing, and the chess? I’ve been so in love selling things since I
was elementary school and the knitting stuff made the love doubled. I want you
to do something as passionately as I am. I believe you won’t make me and our
daughter starved, until any time. That’s why, even I’m not suggesting you to
quit your job or back to square one, I want you to know as if you think you have
to do them, let’s do that. I’m okay & ready with it. Let’s live our dream,
together as ever.
Notes: Thinking to say the last 3 sentences just so scary
AF.
But after it’s been said, I feel free. Love is truly liberating, though.
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C: Why?
B: Because his wife couldn't match to John.
C: Which part?
B: Intelligence, perhaps? Like she's not the one he would talk to on several subject. She's just not understood.
C: If it is the problem, then it's definitely husband's duty to teach the wife, to expand her horizon, bring up to the level she's needed and not grumbling into his friend.
If there is one thing I should declare to be grateful after marriage, everyday and every time, it's how I really thankful to have a partner that I can talk to, in every aspect of life, in every subject that I could think of. From religion to sex, from philosophy to complete rubbish.
Thank you, Ciku. =*
Maria: "Wow. How many sunsets has a person seen in a lifetime I wonder? Quite a few, I imagine."
Scott Briggs: "No, the deal is, how many are left?"
(Wild Horses, 2015)
B: "Lately I paid attention to the gangs, and I finally got each specific 'weird' things that geniuses do. John won't be able to answer or response to anything once he focused on one thing. And George will..
C:"And how about you?"
B: "George will wander around non stop."
C: "No, this is important question to be answered. It's important to me, considered as a closest person to you. Ain't I?"
B: "I don't know."
C: "Try to answer it."
B: "I don't know." (shrug)
C: "Those hurtful words?"
B: "... Perhaps."
C: "No surprise then."
B: "Gina just told me that I am definitely too much when I said Hera's core problem is her intelligence."
C: "Why do you think Hera had that problem?"
B: "Her eyes when staring at me when we argued. Just a reflection of stupidity."
C: "Well.."
* a conversation between a person who love Carla Bruni's songs & a person who believe that the other person was only love Bruni's bikini body line, not the works.
