
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)
“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*
9 comments:
KZL bangetttt bacanya! ((:
bener ih gue kece dan pintar dan sycho wkwkw
nice writing sis
It explains why I think I'm not good-looking. Ternyata akyu emotionally stable dan pintar toh...... #kibasjilbab lol
Oh tintaaa, bagiku Kak Lei cakeup,pinteL, dan emotionally stabLe...tp kadarnya saja mungkin hanya dua yg dominan..kalo cakeupnya kakak dominan, Yaya dikali dua ajah lewatt...
Oooooh... pantesan gw emotionally unstable.. soalnya cantik dan pintar.. #kesyel
Kalo tiga-tiganya punya tapi sedikit-sedikit gimana, Kaakk?? #indenial #teteppengensemuanya #berartiakuemotionallyunstabledong #berarticantikdanpintar #complicated
Kalo RaisaxIsyana, itungannya yang mana ya? Cantik ya banget. Pinter? Minimal pinter maen Musik dan nyanyi. Mari kita anggap mereka berdua emotionally unstable aja ��
-fk, yang selama ini setia sebagai silent reader di let the beast in ���� -
aku bukan tipe orang yang emotionally stable, ohh berarti aku cantik dan pintar *baru tauu.
LOL
so true! manusia nggak ada yang sempurna kan hahaha
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