"I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live." ~ Martin Luther King Jr.
Big ideas are awesome. Big ideas give life meaning. Big ideas make us look and feel good about ourselves. After all, we are what big ideas we stand for; the sacrifices we make, the time and dime we spend.
Whether it is in the name of love, or freedom, or God, or Benjamin Franklin.
Big starts small.
Practicing big ideas flickers every day, and fizzles every night. Big ideas are tougher to stand up for when it's sheathed with dailiness. Ordinariness. Mundaneness.
Like unappreciated work, and loving the same person even if they're so average, even though you secretly think you could've done better than dying obscure.
Kinda sucks, huh?
But does it have to be big? Do you have to be famous and rich and married to have access to peace?
That is the core to the stories in these blogs(dalam bahasa Ibunya and in English). Take a big idea, pluck its plumes and see it among the mundane. Accessible to the ordinary John and Jane. So that the mundane regains its shine, and Jane can love John again. Even though and even if.
Now that's kinda cool.
About the Blogger
Alia Makki. 1981-born. Saudi. Indonesian. Female. BA in Psychology. Can be funny. Hermitic. Terrified of heights. Refuses to get upset about things she can't change.What she does: Write. Yoga. Tell stories. Massage. Sort money. Cross-stitch. Smoke kretek cigarettes. Audiobooks and serious food & beverage consumption.
You can stalk her on Twitter, Facebook and Email. And Formspring. Sometimes. The point is, she's pretty approachable, even if you prefer to remain anonymous.
Just be nice.
Featured in other places- Interview with American Bedu
Fatih A. Syuhud’s Blogger of the Week- Divan Magazine.
About the images:
From Feb 2010, some cheekiness can be found hiding behind the images accompanying the posts. HOVER over them to see the cheek. CLICK on them to be redirected to where the images were stolen borrowed them from.