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I grew up in a Christian family. My dad is a gospel musician/evangelist, mom is a housewife making cookies for dessert, and we lived with two other little ones. If you guys are already wondering where this is headed…No.This is not a post about shoving religion down your throat.This is just me sharing a tiny bit of my life. As much as Christian religion encourages to speak blatantly about faith, I think there is more about speaking than just merely ‘speaking’ through mouth and words. Anyway, I been living life 23 years now and I have been living through His grace. My family wasn’t the ‘saving up’ or nabung type. Mom was mostly at home or taking us kids to school; and dad was a hardworker whose income are of different day-to-day varieties, no fixed office-job income. I grew up with this. I am used to this. For some, this looks like a disaster waiting to happen, but it’s rather a natural thing to my senses. 7 years after ’92, I grew up to be a kid wishing to be the best session drummer in Indonesia. I knew exactly when I was 7 even the word ‘session drummer’. I knew if I’m a session player, I’d get paid per-job, playing for solo artists or bands without permanent drummers. I don’t have to worry about making my own originals, just play the recorded materials/arrangements as it is. But better (so bias, i know) than any drummer can. That way I can help my family’s financial gain. As time runs, by 13 I made my first album. Then the 17-years-old-makes-album and my-dad-sells-car-to-make-my-album stories you’ve probably heard from the media. By 19 I have paid my own college tuition and bought a car for transport. Life has gone fast, and I am still living by His grace. You probably have heard a lot about all these stuff from the media. What the media doesn’t tell you is my unfiltered life. Hopeless days.Religious days.Questioning-God days. Wanting-to-stop-making-music days.Cursing-on-life days. Stopping-a-suicidal-parent days. Everything that is inappropriate according to media standards. Don’t get me wrong, I am not blaming them. It is their system to work like that and I have learned that it is not quite possible to change or undevelop (and re-develop) such a huge works-well-for-everyone system. I just can’t agree with the ones that provocate readers by twisting words and facts. And of course not every media, but most that I know of, are as I mentioned.I have been a musician who doesn’t like being gossip-ed about. I hate ‘using’ gossip for fame. It’s the least thing I want to be known for. My dad just got married for the second time now and this post is the first time that I am actually publicly talking about it. I have been ‘no comment-ing’ any tv/magazine/paper interviewers because I don’t want them to get it wrong. I don’t want my statement to be a gossip.
An uncertainty.
I want it to be my exact words.
Being married is hard. No, I have never been in one haha. But at least I see it happening on a daily basis.
Oh wait.
See what i did there?
‘Happening’
Marriage did not only ‘happen’ once in that beautiful white wedding day;
It is happening,
and happening,
and happening,
until you die.
Supposedly.
But life is not always a fairy tale, or a Bible verse about two people being inseperable. Sometimes no matter how much I know the Truth, I can only
accept the facts,
say what I need to say,
and pray.
If you look again to the beginning of this post, you’ll understand how frustrating it must be financially without having the only one person generating most of it. Yet, I am used to it. I am used to living life on the edge. I am used to not having family investments or savings. I have been and still believing that His plans are better than mine, for the bigger picture that I can’t see. The biggest picture.
I still am maintaining a good relationship with my dad, living with my mom and the two little ones providing food on the table (and fucking expensive school tuitions). I love
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