Few days has passed since i read a book about someone, but my mind couldn't just let it go. I must write it. Here. On how this someone could think so unusual, different, and miraculously at his era.

Here's Leonardo da Vinci,

whose famous for his 'Monalisa' painting. We all knew how brilliant his painting are, just take a look at the Monalisa. Today, it might be just some regular art to you, that make your brain wander, 'why this painting is so famous?!' but if you threw yourself to Renaissance era, especially 15th century.. damn, da Vinci is such a genius.

We didn't talk about who the true Monalisa is, or how mysterious the smile is. But what makes it genius, is how he combined art and science in his beautiful work. Ok, so let me explain in a simple way. He used mathematics to measure body and face proportion, geography for the background, and play with the real optic works, oh, don't forget how he paint the shadow so correctly! So that's what happened when a scientist paint.

Ok. So, if we dig deeper, Leonardo da Vinci already did a lot of things. One of the most shocking part is, he is actually an anatomist! Can you believe he drew anatomy (really detailed) of human body, and almost made that Sobotta-like if he finished it? He just simply collaborate together with cadaver and medical student. Can you believe he also drew the map from bird view when there's no camera nor google map at that time? No sophisticated measurement device. Just simply an odometer which he invented himself. How could that be possible, my mind cannot even think of how it works pemirsa.

And not only that, he's actually a technician too. War is still 'on-going' at that time, and he drew a lot about war machine, flying machine, bridge, also wheels, and invented musical instruments! There's a lot works that i don't mentioned here. But one that i can concluded is he learnt a lot and earn so many.

The big question that has come to my mind, how can? How can someone learn so many different subjects at that time and people still believe them?

As i went deeper, I think what happened in Renaissance is almost similar like what happened in Athene.

No one is actually professional in anything.

There's no professional judge, politician, nor artist. Anyone can do anything. Even a soldier writes poetry, and everyone enjoyed their work. No one will tell them "You are an artist, i don't believe you can calculate this machine accurately." Why? Because it's an ordinary thing, there's nothing yang "mengkotak-kotakan" keahlian like nowadays. Everyone can learn anything and there's no gelar that will put after his name.

So, don't be surprised that Leonardo da Vinci can be like that. He learn maths, physics, geography and medicines very deep, and no one will tell him that he cannot do that just because he didn't enter the faculty that focused on that major.

If we put that situation to this time, would you believe if there's someone who never enter faculty of law write a book about laws? Someone talk about medicine and didn't have a background from medicine?

We can call Leonardo da Vinci a genius because his era made him a genius. How about now? Who is the next Leonardo da Vinci? Is it Steve Jobs? or Mark Zuckerberg?

In this era, university became a big gate to categorize our focus, someone smart in math will take math as his major. And what happened if he became so smart in math? Would people call him a prodigy? Not always. Because his focus is math, and its common for people to be smart in what he focused on.

See what i'm trying to say?

Our era just give opportunity to call someone who invent something that give a big impact to our society and learn a lot of money, a genius. Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page, Jack Ma. Can you even mention someone genius other than them in this era?

I didn't want to say this era is bad and the past is better. But let's compare at what happened with Leonardo da Vinci and our education system today.

Leonardo didn't take a regular school, meanwhile we must complete our 12 years education.

Leonardo learn many subject, we learn many subject too.

Leonardo combine from what he learn to every single thing that he did, meanwhile we didn't.

Our 12 years education before entering university including math, biology, physics, social, economic, etc. is good enough to make us as the next Leonardo da Vinci. But since most people think learn a math while he want to be a doctor is a useless thing, our product is not like Leonardo da Vinci.

We need to stop saying that learn every subject in elementary school, middle school, and high school is useless. Like, what for i learn this pythagoras for? Why i have to measure the speed of a stone that fall from the sky? Why i have to learn this body system when i don't want to be a doctor?

We are far more than good from the past if we really combine that many subject (and of course develop it!) and implement it in our major. Trust me, if you dig deeply, there is always a part of many subject that you already learn that in your focus now.

Like maths, its not all about maths. Like medicine, its not all about biology, it includes physics, maths, geography, social too (i really hope i can say astronomy after this).

And its okay to learn deeply about another subject that didn't become your focus! Trust from people is second, your interest is number one. If you have interest in a subject, then go for it. Learn it, deep. No one will call you genius because genius is a gelar that people give and this kind genius in this era is different. See Tompi? a plastic surgeon that also a singer? People nowadays will call you unique.

Desember, 2019

Kami adalah manusia yang kehilangan arah

berjalan kesana kesini

tak menentu

tau tempat yang dituju

tapi terhalang maju

Kami adalah manusia yang kehilangan arah

agama melembutkan hati kami

buku menjernihkan pikiran kami

Suara kami bergelora

meneriakan ketidakadilan

meneriakan ketidakmanusiawi-an

tapi siapa peduli?

hidup ini begini adanya

Desember, 2019

Sebaiknya badut-badut yang berkeliaran di tempat bayar parkir mall dengan berbagai macam karakter setiap harinya, tidak usah mengeluarkan suara saat diberikan imbalan atas usaha menghiburnya. Badut hello kitty kalo dikasih uang terus bilang “makasih” pake suara cowo kan menghancurkan fantasi insan-insan yang berbahagia atas kehadirannya :”)

November, 2019

Gramedia adalah satu-satunya tempat

You said she was special

sama seperti 

masuk perguruan tinggi

saat ditawarkan tiga pilihan

aku tidak memilih

kecuali satu

karna bagiku

masuk fk unmul

bukanlah suatu pilihan

tapi tujuan

dan kali ini

juga sama

banyak cara yang bisa ditempuh

namun aku tidak punya pilihan

selain menjadi kuat

September, 2019

rejeki itu ada tiga.

Satu, 

rejeki materi,

yang selalu kita cari.

Dua,

rejeki kesehatan,

yang tak pernah kita sadari.

Tiga,

rejeki kebahagiaan,

yang guruku sedang cari.

Kata guruku,

orang berlimpah materi, belum tentu bahagia,

orang bahagia, tak perlu berlimpah materi.

Rabu, 28 Agustus 2019

saat orang-orang terlelap

langit-langit gelap

jalanan sepi sunyap

Lampu lalu lintas satu warna

kuning berkedip-kedap

lupakan kendaraan berasap

tak tau diri

tak mau mengalah

orang-orang nihil

kecepatanku delapan puluh kilo meter per jam

tak ada yang tersentil

(kecuali trotoar)

tak ada yang peduli

(kecuali mama)

aku bahkan harus memutar lagu dub-dub

agar aku tak jleb

terlelap

Minggu, 25 Agustus 2019

"Enjoy today"

Magic things

Waktu

bagi sebagian orang

terasa lama

bagi sebagian lainnya

terasa cepat

Waktu

bagi sebagian orang 

berarti

bagi sebagian lainnya

terlupakan

Waktu

bagi semua orang sama

dua puluh empat

tak pernah cukup

Minggu, 14 April 2019

Jadi begini rasanya

“Aku tidak akan menambah kata-kata yang sudah tak terhitung jumlahnya dalam sejarah kebudayaan manusia. Untuk apa? Kata-kata tidak ada gunanya dan selalu sia-sia. Lagipula siapakah yang masih sudi mendengarnya? Di dunia ini semua orang sibuk berkata-kata tanpa pernah mendengar kata-kata orang lain. Mereka berkata-kata tanpa peduli apakah ada orang lain yang mendengarnya. Bahkan mereka juga tidak peduli dengan kata-katanya sendiri. Sebuah dunia yang sudah kelebihan kata-kata tanpa makna. Kata-kata sudah luber dan tidak dibutuhkan lagi. Setiap kata bisa diganti artinya. Setiap arti bisa diubah maknanya. Itulah dunia kita.”

-SGA

Warga Athena punya kata untuk mereka yang tidak berpartisipasi dalam masalah publik: idiotes. Dari situlah, kita mendapatkan kata idiot. Tidak ada warga Athena yang apatis dan menyisihkan diri, setidaknya tak akan lama. 

Kenapa sih tukang parkir tidak mengadakan konferensi meja bundar

Akankah aku masih hidup esok

Apakah berbuat baik itu harus selalu?

Ternyata

Nantinya

Ceritaku panjang lebar
ibuku dengan seksama mendengarkan
ayahku mengangguk diam

"aku begini, dia begitu."

keduanya memotong kalimatku

kata ibuku
dia itu siapa

kata ayahku

sudah

jangan buang energimu

ingat saja

kata Sayiddina Ali

setelah pengkhianat

adalah ketidakpastian

bukan iya, bukan tidak

bukan hitam, bukan putih

bukankah kita hidup itu harus memilih?

sikap netral 

bukan berarti aman

kau dimusuhi pihak utara

kau dimusuhi pihak selatan

sikap netral

bukan tidak bertentangan

kau memang tidak salah

tapi kau juga tidak benar

Senin, 4 Maret 2019

Mencari kemana-mana

Minggu, 3 Maret 2019

Berdasar cerita fiksi yang kubaca

Kesuksesan dicapai tidak secara instan,

kita sering melihat bahwa orang tersebut begitu berbakat hingga dia bisa mencapai prestasi tertingginya,

tanpa kita tau berapa lama waktu yang dia habiskan untuk meraihnya,

disaat kita berfoya-foya dia belajar,

disaat kita tidur dia terjaga,

karna didunia ini cuma mie instan yang instan.

Selamat belajar farmako, wahai diri

Sudah berapa jam yang kau habiskan?

Jumat, 1 Maret 2019

Hidup itu memang seperti itu kan?

Aku tidak ingin

Di tengah ramainya kendaraan ibukota

Pada akhirnya,
kita memang butuh rehat sejenak,
dari segala berita yang simpang siur,
orang-orang mencari perhatian,
dan berkeluh kesah.

Bukan hanya tangan,
yang berhenti berjelajah.

Mata,
telinga,
hati,
jiwa.

Kita butuh duduk,
berbicara empat mata,
tanpa distraksi.

Agar yang lepas,
tersambung,

yang hilang,
ditemukan.

Minggu, 10 Februari 2019

Gunakan matamu

anggota gerakmu

ekspresi wajahmu

Anggukan kepala saat setuju

tertawa saat lucu

Jangan meluap begitu saja

ini bukan udara

tapi suara

yang keberadaannya membuktikan ada

Jangan berlomba-lomba

ini bukan debat lintas negara

tapi menambah wawasan semesta

Dengar,

dengar sebaik-baiknya dengar

Satu mulut

dua telinga

Senin, 14 Januari 2018