Love and Egalitarianism

Last week, I got flowers from someone that I had never expected to. Twice! Despite I never fond of flowers, this romantic-should-be-flower became kind of joke among my Kos friends. There were very long long out load laughing. Again, twice! This flowers sender was no other than used-to-be our landlord driver. He was such a careless driver that my landlord fired him after one-month work like two years ago. Our landlord called him a careless, crude, unbelievable driver he ever had in his life.

My Kos friends comments were exactly like my questions, why me, why now, after years? Apparently, he was our neighbor that we never realized and he was the one who teased me impolitely almost every night lately across our boarding house. One of the girls said, he chose me simply because my life style and my gesture seem very modest and reachable for him. Oh geez.

It seems the chit chatting shifted to the class of economy. We don’t need the Hindu caste system to feel, to see the caste created smoothly by the capitalism. The question is what’s wrong if he is a driver and a careless-uneducated-lack of wealth buddy? The girls accused me for not being egalitarian for turning down the dating offer.

SEMOGA PANJANG UMUR DAN MENJADI ANAK SOLEH

Seminggu yang lalu saya mengucapkan sms ucapan selamat ulang tahun kepada seorang teman. “Selamat ultah ya, semoga dengan bertambahnya umur, kualitas hidup jadi lebih baik”. Lewat messenger, sms saya berbalas, “ucapan selamatmu berbeda dengan yang lain”.

Hari berikutnya saya menerima sms kabar bahwa istri seorang teman di luar kota baru saja melahirkan anak pertama dan mengharap doa saya semoga anaknya menjadi anak yang soleh. Saya membalas smsnya dengan ucapan, “semoga kamu dan istri menjadi orang tua yang solehah”. Dia membalas, “kok malah aku yang kamu doain?”

Begitu seringnya kita mengucapkan selamat, sampai rasanya kita tidak benar-benar mendoakan dan tidak berpikir lagi apa yang kita ketik dalam ucapan-ucapan selamat kita.