stanley dirgapradja

Friday, March 04, 2005

a magazine last month wrote that the only key to live longer than anyone you know around you is just a simple laugh. a really down hearted laugh, a big laugh, just a glimpse of a smile, and u will feel it. i always know that laughing will make u forget some temporary things going around your head, yet, that things which going around in my head never really walks away anyway, unless i really manage to solve it. thats it human. thats the thing. most of menkind tend to escape from their problems. this way a laugh wont work to escape ur burdened mind. but well, a research is a research. i agree that laughing is simply the cheapest medicine to erase ur blues. i remember that last night i had a big laugh with some wittiest girls i ever know this past years, introducing memes and sandra (as usual). we shared jokes on people around, yes darling we really love to talk about people, wondering when we eventually tired of making laugh of people. well, there was a worst case scenario of 'what if an exhibitionist encounters you on a mid day?' that was the biggest laugh yesterday.
about the article on the magazine, i did not really read it thoroughly, but the laughter should be accompany by 8 moderate stuffs or methods that will help you to see sunshine-inside ur heart-everyday. i am going to be synical here, all books of 'how to...this, how to that' never really work well for me, since they determine us to do something that they (the author) believes will work on us. its a one side judgement on people should really react to things happening around them. do u think its fair to let other people think that they really know whats happening to your life. you are the only person who know what happen to ur life. this way the life is creating some pretty good advantages for some people calling themselves experts on problim solving. well, lest just discuss it. i need to make a posting here anyway. hahahahaha.
8 steps toward a more satisfying life (they say):
1. count your blessings, from the mundane to the magnificent.
lets see what happened to my life this far, today:
-i have felt starving, thank you God, i learned that starving is torturing and that i need to prepare myself for future starvation.
-tyo thank God u lent me the money (which put me on the top list for great debtor of this year)
-i could seep my fave cold latte
-i decreased my debt level by returning edi's money
-i could write this posting...
2.practice act of kindness:
-mmm, i helped the parking man to park a cute girl's motorcycle...
3.savor's life joy:
-i could feel the AC here
-the afternoon sun rays was warm just now...
4.thank a mentor:
-i thank my brother budi for making me pleasant with all tortures that my surroundings created against me, possers, and fakers.
5.learn to forgive:
-i dont really hate people, but there are some out there who never really quit bugging me, i forgive u...
6.take care of ur body:
-this means that i really need to decrease the level of my nights out, clubbs, and getting high...i need to excercise, sleep more, stretching my fat bellies more, smile more, and laughing more...sigh.
7.invest energy and time in friends and family:
-i am going to pick my sister up from campus
-i always spend some quality times with my brother budi in kedai kopi
-i always chit chat around with the girls while having dinner
8. develop strategies for coping with stress and harships:
-mmm, i still try to find the answer for this one, since i never really (that) powerful to cope with my stress...i run here most of the times...