Sorry for No Sorry
We believe in fogiveness.
We do believe that everyone is entitled to a chance to be better and better, and so-called mistakes are just events we sometimes encounter to get there.
We are aware how diference we are one from another. That’s a thing that make us individually unique.
And we believe that we all were essentially created to be good.
For those stances, we wholeheartedly accept others’ imperfection, as we’ve also been forgiven for our imperfection. We open our heart for forgiveness when ones hurt us or others, believe that the door for a change is always there.
Are we really that kind and holy?
Well, not really.
There are some bits that we can’t easily ignore. We dont mind any flaws, but we hate hypocrisy; the mask of ‘deity’ covering hidden selfish agenda. We hate the greedy who steal someone else’s right for their own glory. We can’t accept ceremonial pretentious apology without any sincere willing. Worse, we loathe arrogance not to admit own mistakes, who even feel themselves as the only most holy truth guardians. And, perhaps some more sort of stuffs.
Those above mentioned hurt our conscience, and the scars may remains.
We always try hard doing our best to apply the stance we believe in love and forgiveness. For those above cases, if we possibly fail to do so, we are really sorry for no sorry.
The Joy of Sharing and Giving
A human being with greediness, self centered, materialistic driven life. Are they really exist, in such one dimensional personality? Perhaps.
There is such really good feeling and satisfaction when you are able to give . Much better when it is done without any pretension. We are definitely sure about that.
Along with our fight to just pass day by day survival, giving and seeing ourselves as an offering to the others is one of our longing. It is a need that not so easy to be fulfilled, especially when we after the ‘big’ one, the one when we able to collaborate with bigger community for a bigger impact.
Recently, we managed to get one stage of simple project done for Peace One Day, one of many organisations who declare their dedication for good cause.
It just feel good to do an ‘offering’, it just feel good to share and do something for good cause. We feel fortunate and privilege for such chance, and looking forward to do something more.
Love and Hate Relationship with Technology
We love to embrace technology. In fact, that’s how we believe the world of arts works, by using technology as tools and medium, from the simple piece of pencil and paper, acoustic music instruments, to much advance computerised technology.
However, facing the fast evolving digital media and its related computer technology, there is some kind of unpleasant tiredness. We sometimes feel that we’ve drawn to the wrong side, where the medium is all matter, not the essence how we use it.
On one side, we have to admit that we ourselves is the one to blame. It usually starts from the curiosity to explore, then transforms into eagerness to mastering a latest technology as new medium. (Yap, the mastery is what believe as the essential beginning before we can smartly wander the new playground and build new work on it). Unfortunately, the development of digital media tends to be fast evolving, and well-known endless. Catching up with the latest one can be exhausting. Yet, it is simply something we have full control, and we have no problem at all to drive the pace.
On the other side, it is a matter of commercial demand. As technologies become attached to man’s life, they very often are part of trends and lifestyles need to be fulfilled. And, in the world of economy, these may be exploited. Then, mastering the latest technology is part of competitive skill of survival. On this side, then we sometimes have to let ourselves drawn to this stream, a ‘must’ to adapt it as a new tool.
We don’t really see our selves a technician (no offense at all to all call themselves as technician). We only see the technology as an extension, medium, and sometimes the playground, but not as its own interest. It is more about how we use it for, if necessary.
For sure, in general we never fully comfortably with the feeling so attached and depended with our tools. Unfortunately, it is a kind of must, since that’s the tool we use. But in essence, we don’t like being the slaved of it and dictated by them. The matter is about our relationship with human being we live for, not about our life with the technology.
Well, this is just another note of our love and hates relationship with technology as we try to embrace it, a complex relationship that can’t be decided by just ‘love it or loathe it’.
One Farewell
It was just a job, a mean of survival.
Then, it naturally grew being part of our days, the early morning routine that its effect last much longer, accompanying the rest of our activities to reach some bigger dream.
Time goes by, and thing become so neutral. But not at the goodbye, which sparks immediate memories, emphasizes more how real the presence has been such meaningful company, the space and friends who make things possible.
Indeed, thank you very much for the farewell, the card, the gift and the good luck wishes. More important, thanks for all laughs and smiles we shared through out years, when not every day was presented to us in an easy joyfull pattern.
*Dedicated to Moorgate’s Pret A Manger team.
‘Comedy’ of Hope and Faith
We laugh at ourselves. it is a kind of funny how we dare to share the near future to other; our hope,plans, expectation that may (or not) happen, the state we’d like to progress to. It is a bit of comedy since it has some contrast with the fact how we live at this moment.
The truth is no human being has full control of the world, so don’t we. What we have is only hope along our best ‘fight’ for the moment and the future. Then, we might as well share them to brighten the days.
Thankfully, it somehow works…we guess. Some good things happened, being neutralized by and accompanied by some unexpected ‘bad’ stuffs. However, in sync with time, we make a little tiny step, bit by bit.
Today, we share some other hope, lay on our faith that the best will happen in its own time. With hope and faith, we walk our days…and honestly, sometimes, smile over the bitterness of its comedy.