You Want a Social Life, with Friends

Hidup ini sesungguhnya adalah segitiga, yang ketiga sisinya nggak bisa kita miliki sekaligus. Seddappp.

Contohnya, nih. Katanya, ada tiga unsur yang nggak bisa dimiliki perempuan secara sekaligus: kecantikan, kepintaran, dan keseimbangan mental.

Kalo dia kece dan emotionally stable, biasanya nggak pintar. Kalo dia pintar dan emotionally stable, biasanya kurang kece. Kalo dia kece dan pintar, biasanya psycho. Dulu gue tawa-tiwi aja denger teori ini, tapi setelah ngingat-ingat beberapa "contoh kasus", kok ada enelnya ugha.

(FYI, kata mantan gue di masa muda, gue kece dan pintar. Kalau kata T, gue pintar dan lumayan emotionally stable. Berarti gue dulu psycho, sekarang jelek. Lwar byasa.)

Dan menurut Kenneth Koch, ada tiga unsur yang nggak bisa kita miliki - perempuan ataupun laki-laki - secara sekaligus: karier yang bagus, social life yang oke, dan love life yang mantaps.

“You want a social life, with friends.

A passionate love life and as well

To work hard every day. What’s true

Is of these three you may have two

And two can pay you dividends

But never may have three.
There isn’t time enough, my friends–

Though dawn begins, yet midnight ends–

To find the time to have love, work, and friends.

Michelangelo had feeling

For Vittoria and the Ceiling

But did he go to parties at day’s end?
Homer nightly went to banquets

Wrote all day but had no lockets

Bright with pictures of his Girl.

I know one who loves and parties

And has done so since his thirties

But writes hardly anything at all.”

– Kenneth Koch (1925 - 2002)

Iya juga, ya *lalu depresi*