I was journaling and thinking of my future careers after graduation, complete with my latte and iPad when this question came to me: “What is your most memorable moment in these three years of university life?”
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Marcella Purnama
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Marcella Purnama is a blogger and author of What I Wish I Had Known: And Other Lessons You Learned in Your Twenties. She is currently obsessed with finding the best recipe for bread rolls and keeping her sixteen plants alive.
Two years ago, I made this poem to commemorate a girl who died on a car crash, way before her untimely death. Somehow, I remembered it today. Dedicated to all to you who have lost somebody.
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The pastor comes and done is done
The only child, yes, the girl is
and through the cries, weeps, tears and moans
The girl murmurs, “forget-me-not”
Then Death comes and asks her hand
“No,” she says, “I’m not done yet”
Death nods but says no words
“forget-me-not, I want them to do”
and Death is gone,
is found no more
Even with my better-than-average intake of veggies and fruits and decent cooking, I feel defeated. Deflated. Gone are those ambitions to become a better cook as I become independent. Now I’m slightly worried of the well-being of my future husband. I really hope he can cook.
Read more →I am graduating. And there is a possibility that I will become jobless. But being unemployed doesn’t mean that I will become a failure. And whatever I’ll be doing after graduation, I know they all will be worthwhile. I know they will become dots that one day, connect.
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I rarely do a video chat with my friends. With a partner is an entirely different case, but with friends? Almost never.
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On my previous article, I have talked about discovering your dream. Now, I would talk about how to finally get there.
Like, you know, dreams are not always to be found by trying new things. Sometimes they are to be found by searching your childhood and looking at what you are fond of doing.
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Over the past year, I have learned two important lessons about dreams. One, is about how to actually discover your dream, which will be discussed in this article. And two, is about how to finally get there, which will be discussed in the next post.
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As you perhaps know, last week, I offended a whole lot of people. I might not be able to get away with this issue, but that’s okay. Because I know one day this mistake of mine will be connected in the series of dots somewhere.
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“Time travel has not yet been invented. But 30 years from now, it will have been.” A brilliant, outstanding movie.
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Once I read that “Everything that can go wrong, will go wrong.” In a sense, it’s true. And letting go of the things that go wrong is sometimes the right thing to do.
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