Anchor

Everybody can writes hours on hours. Sometimes you know what you want to write. Sometimes you don’t. You decide your mind to think, your heart to feel deep inside yourself, and let your fingers spill it out on your blank page.

Here’s an example. At 04.00 pm sitting on the porch, with a laptop device and some ginger tea, starring to the houseplants that I just bought from the Garden Shop while listening to State Line from Novo Amor and waiting for Tumi, a stray cat that always comes to my place every dusk. Thinking all of the things that I wish I could be. Like become a federal agent FBI, try to find a killer in a murder case, chasing a drug dealer.

Or to be a White House Executive Chef, become the first woman ever from Indonesia that holds the post.

Become a kindergarten teacher because I love kids. Hearing them laughing, watching them playing around, answering every single question that somehow can make me smile. Their pureness is solace to me. Even though it might be not an easy job, but I would like to take the chance if I have one.

Above all, I always wanted to be a florist. It would be an honor to be a part of someone else’s happiness. Making a bouquet of red roses and deliver them with my Vespa with a basket on it. Perhaps with a Beetle if it is a big red roses bouquet.

Because I believe that every living thing has a soul. So do flowers. Flowers are a representation of an earth’s lips, spoken without sound. That is why when flowers bloom, there’s happiness inside us that comes along with it. That is why when someone gives you flowers, somehow you feel loved.

Buddha says “ If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our life would change.” And I’m with Buddha.

One big thing that we can learn from flowers is flowers don’t worry about how they are going to bloom. They just open up and turn toward the light and that is what makes them beautiful.

The question is, can we be like flowers?

At the end of the day, I realize that it is so beautiful what I have in mind. And it is still beautiful though if I don’t have them in a real life.

It is amazing about how one moment can do to your life. As simple as riding a bike and suddenly you fall down. Buy something at the grocery shop and realize that you left your belongings there accidentally. Meet someone you couldn’t imagine you’d fall for, unexpectedly.

Sometimes one moment can change everything. Change your whole life.

Do you believe that everything happens just by an accident?

Here’s a thing, like Master Oogway says “ There are no accident. There are no coincidence”. Everything that happens, cross our path for a reason.

Someday, and indeed every day, your life will be judged, but understand you never chose any of this in the first place. Your choices are everything, but upon realizing this, it is utterly important to embrace the reality of decision-making you cannot possibly take every factor into account.

It is okay to not know what to do in life. In fact, perhaps it’s even preferable for a time.

It is okay to be rough round the edges.

To be bruised up, and broken, and scarred.

To be happy. To love somebody and to be loved. To be hurt.

It is okay because we are too complex. You might not be a star that lights the darkness, or a bird that can teach us to soar. But you can be you. You just have to find an Anchor inside yourself.

What is an Anchor?

And why?

Anchor made from a metal used to connect a vessel to the bed of a body of water to prevent the ship from drifting due to wind, current, and waves.

Take a moment to understand the real meaning of an Anchor. I already did that and here’s what I can tell…

Anchor is something strong and it is indeed a part of yourself.

It is your soul.

It gives you roots. It is something that grounds you in yourself, your mind, and your body. Something you can hold on to when you feel overwhelmed. And something that makes you more at ease, and makes you, YOU.

If you find an Anchor within yourself, no matter how strong the wind, the current, and the waves take you, your “ship” will remain there.

I hope you can always find where your own Anchor is. By then, when the roots are deep, there is no reason for you to fear the wind, the current, and the waves but laugh at them.