Showing posts with label if only. Show all posts
Showing posts with label if only. Show all posts

Sunday, August 25, 2024

About Failure

Gw mau sharing tentang kegagalan atau failure.

Tahun ini gw sudah 5x mengalami kegagalan. Kegagalan-kegagalan ini came in many form, semuanya ga sama. Gw akan menjelaskan satu per satu tentang kegagalan itu di sini secara implisit. Siapa tau pengalaman gw bisa jadi pembelajaran buat kalian.

Failure #1
Target Desire Level: 5/5
Alasan Gagal: Kurang Persiapan

Ceritanya gw amat sangat menginginkan target ini. Eureka buat gw ketika pertama kali mengetahui bahwa gw diberikan kesempatan. Kenapa gw sangat menginginkannya? Karena jika dapet, akan sepenuhnya mengubah nasib. Akan membuat gw berpindah dunia lain ke (insya auloh) yang lebih baik karena berada di tempat yang lebih aman dan melakukan sesuatu yang lebih bermakna. 

Sayangnya proses menuju target tidak berjalan mulus karena persiapan kurang maksimal. Hanya diberikan waktu 3 hari, tanpa weekend, sehingga tidak fokus. Bekal kurang. Amunisi kurang. Nervous total di hari H. Buyar semua.

Akhirnya, gagal.

Ingin sekali menyalahkan pihak sana. Tapi gw sadar gw sendiri ada salahnya juga. Harusnya ada pengorbanan. Harusnya ada yang diprioritaskan. Harusnya bisa lebih siap. 

Failure #2
Target Desire Level: 5/5
Alasan Gagal: Expecting Too Much 

Target kali ini sangat menyenangkan. The idea of the kind of life I will be living if I achieve it, is exciting. Kembali bertemu dan berinteraksi dengan orang-orang asing yang berpikiran maju. The land of opportunities. Promising businesses. 

Tidak ada yang salah dengan prosesnya. Mulus. I remember I was smiling at the end of it. 

The only problem was me expecting too much. Ternyata kita hanya berkenalan. Tidak lebih dari itu. 

Failure #3
Target Desire Level: 3/5
Alasan Gagal: Technical Issue

Sungguh alasan gagal yang tidak keren. Siapa yang salah? Gw salah karena tidak membaca petunjuk dengan benar. Tapi pihak yang sana juga salah karena tidak notice bahwa gw melakukan kesalahan, dan tidak menotifikasi gw akan kesalahan tersebut. 

My guess is I was just one of many. So notifying me wasn’t the priority.

Failure #4
Target Desire Level: 4/5
Alasan Gagal: Bad Timing

Target adalah sesuatu yang natural buat gw. Sudah ada chemistry. Easy win. Proses berjalan mulus tanpa halangan. Although I gotta admit, I was being an a-hole couple of time during the process.. Huhu sorry, guys. 

But that didn’t stop them, I still made it. 

Hanya saja, bad timing. A very bad timing. 

Gw dihadapkan pada pilihan: target atau keluarga gw. Of course gw pilih keluarga dong.

Jadi, target pergi begitu saja, tanpa melihat ke belakang lagi.

I didn’t regret my decision though. There’s something bigger than materials. 

Failure #5
Target Desire Level: 5/5
Alasan Gagal: Overqualified

Secara background, target #5 mirip dengan target #2. 

Sudah belajar dari pengalaman sebelumnya, gw datang lebih siap. Ada pengorbanan, dalam hal ini waktu. Ada latihan dan gladikotor. Gw sebisa mungkin meminimalis segala risiko.

Eh, ternyata gw terlalu tinggi buat pihak sana. Gw menyaksikan sendiri momen “kaget” pihak sana ketika mengenal gw lebih jauh. IDK I have to feel good or bad about myself after that. Haha~

Well, begitulah 5 kegagalan dengan 5 alasan yang berbeda.

Ini rekor ga yah? Setaun 5x (padahal masih Agustus). I feel like tahun 2018-2019 itu zaman baru pulang dari Melbourne kegagalannya lebih banyak deh..

Apa yang bisa gw pelajari dari sini?

Well, yang pertama pasti acceptance. Bahwa sekarang belum waktunya, bahwa roda gw tahun ini memang berada di bawah karena tahun-tahun sebelumnya udah di atas. 

Bahwa alasan kegagalan itu beragam dan nggak semuanya salah diri sendiri. Ada faktor kegagalan tidak bisa sepenuhnya kita kontrol karena melibatkan orang lain juga. 

It's okay.

Lalu mencoba mawas diri, mungkin gw memang belum maksimal, harus bisa improve ke depannya.

Satu kata yang selalu gw ingat-ingat terus, selalu coba aplikasikan ketika sedang gagal, pun kasih advice orang2 yang sedang gagal, dan kemungkinan besar menjadi next tattoo gw: perseverance

Coba lagi, lagi, lagi, dan lagi. 

Jangan nyerah. 

Nevertheless, there's always light at the end of the tunnel. Mengalami kegagalan berkali-kali membuat gw lebih menghargai & mensyukuri kemenangan-kemenangan kecil/small wins.

Good health.

Reuniting with friends.

Good laugh.

(Another) teaching opportunity.  

Free stuff.

I'm still blessed. :)

Bonus foto sumber kebahagiaan gw minggu ini:


 

Thursday, June 6, 2013

Dementor's Kiss

Hai. I finally get my feet on the ground after almost 5 hours of sorrow.

Hari ini sebenernya hari yang bagus banget. A well-deserved public holiday. Perfect leisure that everyone in busy schedule needs. Everyone like me. Gw sudah merencanakan hal-hal menyenangkan yang bisa gw lakukan hari ini: gw mau ke salon, potong rambut, creambath, whatever yang bisa bikin gw seneng. Gw mau shopping, kebetulan nyokap yang minggu lalu baru ulang tahun dapet banyak banget voucher diskon belanja di store2 ternama. Gw mau nge-YouTube, my favorite Asians got a whole bunch of new videos that i haven't checked out. Dan gw mau ngeblog, tentang pengalaman2 menarik minggu lalu yang belom sempet gw ceritain di postingan sebelumnya.

See? Those are interesting ways to spend the day, right? I'm completely ready to rock this day, until they announce that 2NE1 will perform at July 3rd. 

NO.FUCKIN.WAY.

You see, I can't be there in July 3rd simply because i have works to do. This has been planned out for almost six months. But suddenly they announced this Mnet thing and everything's just screwed up. That's why I'm losing my mind immediately. I can't think straight. I'm depressed. Even worst I'm dying inside.

Seriously, how could this happen???? Or why????

All this time i'm being really sure that they're not gonna perform there. Simply because, it's not their time yet. If any YG artist has to perform, it has to be Lee Hi or Epik High, not 2NE1. For these past few days, when they annouce the line ups, i'm having a good feeling about that. Names after names, nothing scares me because i never thought they're gonna get 2NE1. But they made it! All impromptu! How did they do that????

Gw bener2 kehilangan semangat untuk menjalani hari ini. All the plans are ruined. I prefer to stay home, in my room, thinking and thinking. I seriously think about everything, about possibility, about risk and all that, and the more i think of it, it becomes even more nonsense. I let my mind wanders and once it stops at the memory of Harry Potter. It's the Dementor's Kiss. I feel like i'm having a Dementor's Kiss effect right now. I'm losing my soul, i'm turning into an empty shell. I can feel my sense is struggling to keep me away from doing anything stupid. I can feel the other side of my mind trying hard to get me back on the ground. 

It takes hours, you know. Those painful hours. Things just can't get any worse than this.

But after more and more struggling, i finally can think clearly again by looking at the bright side of the situation.

Look, i don't blame anyone for this unfortunate event. I don't blame my job that gave me the responsibility for July 3rd. I don't blame the organizer because i know they're only doing business. I don't blame myself for being unable to do anything.

I'm just very very disappointed because i can't be there. But that's completely normal. There's always a lesson behing everything, right? This is probably a part of that grown-up thing to make me more mature. It's about accepting and believing that there's always another time.

Right now i think I'm happy enough that they will be here, finally. I'm happy enough to know that Dara can meet Thunder backstage. I'm happy enough because i don't have to spend any money. I'm happy enough for Indonesian Blackjacks and i'm counting on you guys for HQ fancams. :)


Thursday, May 5, 2011

The Session – Something To Say Before


It’s almost 12 AM and it’s raining outside my home here in Pondok Gede. Twitter just reports that Jakarta is also raining in many districts, so i guess it’s the more reason to stay home today.

I went to campus yesterday to take care those ‘printilan’ thingies for my session next week and i gotta tell you it’s sucks!

Having the session earlier than others means you gotta take care everything by yourself because apparently everyone are doing it for your sake, so you gotta do more, it’s natural, way of life. But it also gives you some kind of privilege(s) which will judges you as an oppotunist person at the same time.

Honestly, i can’t understand why i wanna make it fast, all i want is to get it done as soon as possible ‘cause i’m getting really sick of it already for the past two months, and i see no point to postpone it any longer, to procrastinate, ‘cause it’ll make me stressing real hard i’m gonna blow up~

But i think all of these crazy stuffs i’ve been through are just a part of my deadlines. I used to make self-deadlines everytime i work on something. Just for you to know, i broke my deadlines already. If everything worked exactly like what i was planning to be, i would have had my session by the end of March. None of my targets accomplished on time.

But as you can see, of course there’s a lil bit of this and lil bit of that, which cost me delay, delay, delay. I was so fuckin’ slowly finishing it >> 8 fuckin’ months! While everybody else have enjoyed their new lives already, doing their new jobs, wasting their money and time having these mighty holidays, raising their glasses and said ‘i’m graduated, bitches!’ I was still sitting there, in front of my laptop, cluelessly trying to write something to keep up~

My parents, they keep asking me ‘how’s your final project’ or ‘when will you session happen’ everytime they got a chance to ask, and i was like ‘next month-next month’ ‘don’t worry’ ‘i have this under-control’ blah blah blah. In fact i am worry and i do not have this under control. But to explain the fact to them, God knows any idea how difficult.

I’m not proud of this achievement. People say it’s cool to finish early, to have your session early. It’s a congratulation i receive every single day until next week. They don’t have any idea how hard i put a smile on my face everytime they asked, ‘cause i’m not proud, at all.