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Setiap kali berulang tahun, aku semakin mendekati tempat asalku: ketiadaan. Ibuku bilang, dunia ini sendiri pun lahir dari ketiadaan. Karena lahir dari ketiadaan, mengapa pula harus mencemaskan kehilangan?
Ketiadaan itu meluaskan, kata Ibu, dan mempertemukan manusia dengan banyak hal, di antaranya cinta. ‘Aku berharap bisa melindungimu dari patah hati. Tapi itu tak mungkin.’
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everytime i have my birthday, i feel closer to the place where i come from: nothingness. my mom said, this world was created from nothing. because we were born from nothing, then why should we worry about being nothing?
nothingness expands you, said mom, and makes humans encounter a lot of things, one of which is love. ‘I hope i could protect you from having your heart broken. yet that’s impossible.’
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*)taken from ‘bukan cerita cinta’ by @windyariestanty.
