Live a healthy life and die gracefully

I get sick easily, so I try to live a healthy life as much as my big appetite allows. You know what the doctors say: eat more fruit and veggies, less red meat, and exercise regularly. Now, even though I’m doing all that in my quest for a healthy and fit body, I fully realize that it will not prevent me from dying. I don’t understand the scientists with their study on dying. I can appreciate when they are trying to comprehend the mechanism of a disease and as a result devise the treatment and hopefully the cure. But the cure of dying??

Humans are mortals, period. As much as it is hard to accept, we will all die. What matters is how do you want to die? Do you want to die of diabetes? Heart attack? Or just dying in your sleep? Take your pick.

I think that’s the point of a healthy life. Instead of spending the last 10 years of our life being incapacitated, or worse, in a vegetative state, because of a stroke, we could wean ourself from all those meaty oily dishes and start eating more greens. And hopefully, we’d die gracefully.

congrats

Dulu aku bingung setiap mau mengucapkan selamat ulang tahun/lebaran/wisuda ato apapun. Ngomongnya apa yaa yang lucu tapi keren tapi bermakna juga dan orisinil, de el el de el el. Jadinya kalo dapat sms yang bagus disimpenn terus tar pas ultah temenku dikirim (ini mah udah gak orisinil ya ).

Lama-lama, seiring berjalannya waktu, kebijaksanaan bertambah (huekcuh) I no longer saw the point of cute sms or witty sentences. Apalagi capek juga nyimpenin sms, inbox penuh bow sampe-sampe sms baru susah masuk (nasib punya hape jadul). Kurasa yang penting adalah doanya. Mau pendek pun kalo kita dengan tulus mendoakan (mudah-mudahan) akan lebih terasa. Jadi teman-temanku, harap maklum ya kalo ucapan dariku pendek. Tapi yakinlah kalo aku tulus mendoakan.

Tenses, tenses

Bahasa Indonesia tak ada tense. Bahkan kata untuk tense pun kurasa tak ada (ato aku yang tak tau?). But after my father’s death, I realized that tenses is kinda cruel. If I speak of my dad now, I’d have to use the past tense. And that kinda hurt. Speaking in Indonesian helps me avoid facing the reality. Apakah ini berarti bahasa Indonesia tak mau menghadapi kenyataan?