Surrounded by the people who didn’t really embracing structure led me to grow up as an organized person in a way. It wasn’t easy facing uncertainty in schedule and what to do when I was a kid. Since then, I learned how to organize my own schedule, to-do list, and…

My understanding that reality is, sometimes, a different thing to dream has just gone stronger as I grow older. Reading an article I found on one of prominent business magazines has become my own wake-up call for the dream job that I have been long since I was in high…

After two-year exploration on academic and professional spheres, I finally come into conclusion to which would be best fit for me. The exploration came down to all the efforts for both worlds. I redid the tests for graduate school because it has been more than five years since I was…

The other night was kind of thought-provoking at the office. One of my colleagues was intrigued by the reasons people stay in relationship. This reminds me of my Instagram post that I wrote last year, just before the pandemic came. Only God knows how difficult emotional storm is for me…

It is indeed unprecedented time of every single human for last hundred years. We frantically see a million of death has been recorded due to COVID-19. It is deeply disturbing disease that, I guess, none sees it coming quickly. I asked my mom one day if she ever had experience…

How many times in each single day do we like checking on what other’s and comparing it to ourselves? It’s either something obvious like our bodies, our skin tones, our heights, our beauty, and all those sort of things, or something not-so-obvious like life, career, relationship, etc. After doing it…

Out of all things wasted in life, the only one thing that I used not to care much was time. I was so generous letting my friends occupied my weekend to hang out and to reconnect. Some people are worth to spend hours with and some are not. I was…

After years of receiving constant nag from my mom, few last weeks I eventually decided to see a therapist. I tried to manage my responses every single time she phoned me just to check on me and discuss the same thing over and over again. It was indeed truly exhausting…

“Lalu gimana bisa beneran tau kalau emang jawabannya ‘enggak’ kalau ga tanya? Itu kan cuma asumsimu aja,” ujarku malam itu kepada seorang teman wanita. “Kan aku udah ngode berulang kali, lalu responnya biasa biasa aja, ga excited juga. …