The Beauty of Letting Go

It is never easy to find a place we can belong to. It is never easy to find people we can feel comfortable sharing stories of our joys and tears with. It is never easy to finally open the doors & windows of our hearts then take a seat in relax letting everything coming in & out. When we have found them and finally have opened them, we just don't want to lose them. We strive our best to have the firmest grip ever upon them.

The problem with such factual concept is ideally, life doesn't work that way. We plan and design it like a building, but it has never been within the possession & jurisdiction of ours even though we follow all of the theoretical guidelines. For everything in life is conditional, they all have the limit of time period; just like life ahead is there death. Thus, the place & the people will someday have to be gone. The doors and the windows will have to be shut off again. And we, are alone again.

The Cage We Choose

"Look at the birds!
Although
we’ve opened the cage
trying to release them
to the open nature,
still they don’t
fly outside
liberating themselves from.

Isn’t it just like us,
that although
we’ve been shown
the pathways of liberation
from this infinite wheel
of suffer,
we anyway choose
not to be freed?”


—Marcelina, Home Affairs of IKMAB UNS 2014, at Qing Ming Festival in UNS Boddhisasana Temple

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“或生而知之、或學而知之、或困而知之、及其知之、一也。或安而行之、或利而行之、或勉強而行之、及其成功、一也。”

"Ada orang yang sejak lahir sudah bijaksana, ada yang karena belajar lalu bijaksana, ada yang karena menanggung sengsara lalu bijaksana; tetapi Kebijaksanaan itu Satu juga. Ada orang yang dengan tenang tentram dapat menjalani, ada yang karena melihat faedahnya lalu dapat menjalani, dan ada pula yang dengan susah payah memaksa diri untuk menjalani. Tetapi hasilnya akan Satu juga."

"Some are born with the knowledge of those duties; some know them by study; and some acquire the knowledge after a painful feeling of their ignorance. But the knowledge being possessed, it comes to the same thing. Some practice them with a natural ease; some from a desire for their advantages; and some by strenuous effort. But the achievement being made, it comes to the same thing."

—Confucius, Doctrine of Mean, Chapter XX: 9

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"Komunitas yang baik adalah komunitas yang anggotanya saling mendukung satu sama lain, yang membahas hal-hal yang berguna, yang mengupayakan hal-hal yang benar, yang penuh dengan semangat, dan yang bersama-sama berlatih mengembangkan mental"

"A good community is a community of which the members support each other, discuss useful & worthwhile matters (Dhamma), strive in efforts for righteousness, are full of spirit (Viriya), and of which the members practice together for mental development (Meditation)."

—Gerry Susanto (Paduma), Chief of IKMAB UNS 2014, inspired by Sramanera Tenshin Wangel (Steven Basuki Sasongko)

Meet The Inspiring Senior of AMSA-Indonesia: Adhitya Sigit Ramadianto

http://issuu.com/amsaindonesia/docs/arbor_vitae_7th_edition

Link attached is the arbor vitae 7th edition of AMSA-Indonesia. For the "Interview with AMSA Figure" section, I made an interview with Adhitya Sigit Ramadianto, MD., a senior in AMSA-Indonesia. (The interview was done before he got the title "MD" on his name, though). Due to some reasons, I make up my mind to create this post for showing my abundance of thanks to him for all inspiration he has given about being in AMSA.

I believe this will also be inspiring more of juniors in AMSA-Indonesia. Questions about why AMSA, why must become active, etc., you may find in his answers. Speaking of which, Congratulation to Adhitya S Ramadianto to have become a medical doctor and thus you enter AMSA Alumni Club. May your dreams in AMSA be shared more and more.


Here we go the interview:

The Better Version of Ourselves

"you realize how you're never good enough of person for people around you, for people who care for you, and for the one you dear most. and you're ashamed of it, of how you are yourself that way.

Then there is this person you meet, and he is all you wish you were, all you wish you had been, is all you know would be the answer for all of your mistakes & regrets if he were to replace your existence. Thus all you can feel is a big amount of enviousness, high respect to the person, and more hatred towards yourself.

And you wish your existence could be replaced by that person, and you wish you could erase yourself."

As we grow up into a better version of ourselves bit by bit, we sometimes contemplate of what we used to be to make sure we're not the same as what we were. We feel the need of ascertaining that we have changed, and we don't want to see that very person from our past whenever the mirror reflects the human standing before us into our eyes.