the view of life

Gee... isn't it beautiful view (bon paysage--in french)? The spotlight of the city... the silhoutte of the buliding, and the vanilla-combined-with-dark-almost-starry sky.

Guess what, everybody... it's the view from Bisnis Indonesia office. I used to smoke and watch this from the smoking room, minutes after deadline.. when I'm alone or together with my seniors, while feeling sad, or happy.

Usually it's just an afternoon, not as beautiful as that day that make Kang Dedi, our photographer willing to took the picture for us.

I bet you people agree on how beautiful it is. But let me tell you, this beautiful view has a very big-dark-secret that makes... all the prisoner of azkaban tremble.. (hehe... the Harry Potter's part suddenly came in. Just writing it).

And this make my friend and I, in one side, and you reader at the other side, have a significantly different scale of depth meaning about the beauty of the view.

Let me tell you.. the dark big secret is laid in the dark part of the pic, the below one. They are cemetery. Yes... it's a spooky cemetery where a girl was raped an murdered years ago. If you see the cemetery and know the story, perhaps you will eager to get rid of the view. Hehe.. But since you don't see it, then the beautiful image you capture is bald as it served in the pic. No darkside.

But for my friend and I who everyday see the graveyard, the beauty of this view felt special and deeper. Because it appears, contradictorily, in the middle of the graveyard, like a flower bloom in the dark mud.

I think it is like us, when facing the world. Some choose to take the bald picture of it, accepting the beautiful part and (intentionally) not-knowing the bad one.

Some other choose to accept both of it. So when the beauty appears in the middle of the gloom situation, it felt more special and meaningful, and deeper.

This is life is. What make life meaningful and beautiful is; it's dynamic between positive and negative part. Without the dark part, you will never know how to thank the good part. On the opposite, without knowing the good part, you will never motivated to leave the bad part.

Have you tried to stop awhile and watch the high trees' tips of leaves, waved by the wind? And realize how beautiul the world we are in? If you have, then good for you... cause you have find how to feel the rhyme of life, not only passing it and regretting it when you die.

Happy new year, everybody... let's make a better chapter of life...