embracing the ordinary

Hello there,

It's Sunday afternoon, and here I am, forcing myself to sit in front of my laptop and write something.

I think it's been a while since the last time I write properly, though. And I'd like to list many excuses for this, but none of them are good enough, so welcome back.

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For the past few months, it seems like the world is a little bit slow down for some of us (but maybe even much busier for the rest). And by these past few months, we haven't even reached a half journey of the year. What a strange time, I thought. But surely, we hope there will be a silver lining behind all of this.

I don't know about you out there, but this is the third week of me doing social distancing as much as I can. I still have to go to work once a week, but for the rest of the days, I'd work from home. Honestly, it's pretty draining to have all these works done just by staying at home. The never-ending conference calls and chats (through so many applications), because we're all struggling to keep our job done. Even for someone introverted like me (you won't believe but yes, I'm not that good at socializing), I found it pretty difficult to maintain communication with my colleagues at work, just through chat apps.

It's crazy but it makes me realize how we have taken all these things for granted, just because it's ordinary.

How ordinary it is, 

to have a handshake with people you just met; 

to go to work/school every day;

to kiss your loved ones when saying goodbye;

to see your family at home;

to gather with your closest friends;

to embrace someone you miss;

to have a cup of coffee with your lover;

and to do many things we always feel like, it's ordinary.

Isn't it interesting how those little things become extraordinary for now? We miss doing the daily ordinary things that make us even more grateful for the life we have.

Right now, I feel like the earth and the whole universe is taking their break. It might be a little chaos down here, for humans always need something to blame. But hey, the earth is probably sleeping, because she's tired, and she's recovering.

A few days ago, my sister texted me, "I couldn't believe that the sky is so blue this morning."

Well, I couldn't believe what I saw either. Jakarta is always a busy city. But the streets are never more vacant than these days. It might be too early to say that these are the positive sides of everything that happens. It's just a rare thing to see, so I kinda have mixed feelings about that.

When the world seems like slowing down right now, it's also interesting to see that life keeps going no matter what. Even when sometimes we feel like the world stops for a second, it's not. By the end of the day, we're all only humans trying to survive for a living. No matter what happens.

I hope we could survive this time,

and when everything's back to normal,

may we never ever take anything for granted anymore.

For this too shall pass.

Hope you all have a great weekend.

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