Broken Heart do Changes People.

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Akibat buah dari ketidaksengajaan, sampai sekarang aku jadi hobi menulis. Aku ingat waktu itu, ketika duduk di kelas 2 SMA (SMK sih), ada perlombaan antar kelas dalam rangka ulang tahun sekolah. Salah satu diantara lomba tersebut adalah lomba menulis artikel tentang teknologi.

“bisa ga kamu, Rif, jadi peserta lomba menulis?” Tanya Jaka, ketua kelas.

“wah, aku gak pernah nulis sih,”

“bisa aja deh. Soalnya dari kelas kita Cuma ini yang belum ada pesertanya. Lomba networking sudah diisi sama Farid,” tambah Jaka.

Waktu SMK, aku sekolah di SMK jurusan Teknologi Informasi.

“ah, sudah ya, aku tulis namamu aja. Lomba nulis hari Jumat. Tuh ada informasinya di mading,” paksa Jaka waktu itu.

Mau tidak mau, aku menjadi salah satu punggawa Tim Nasional XI TKJ 2 dalam perlombaan ulang tahun SMK Negeri 7 Samarinda.

Namun aku tidak pernah menyangkan artikel yang kutulis mengganjkarku menjadi juara pertama. Hadiahnya berupa uang 400 ribu dan piagam. 400 ribu sudah sangat lumayan buatku yang sangunya 10ribu rupiah sehari, waktu itu.

Semenjak itu, aku jadi hobi menulis. Apalagi tidak lama dari aku juara, kawanku memperkenalkan aku dengan novel-novel karya Raditya Dika. Kebanyakan tulisanku waktu itu jelas ter-influence oleh tulisannya Raditya. Waktu itu juga belum mengenal blog. Jadi waktu itu aku menulis di note facebook. Aku ingat tulisan pertamaku yang nge-hits waktu itu berjudul ‘cinta, trauma, thriller, dan lainnya,’ berisi tentang cerita kisah cinta (monyet)-ku dari jaman SD hingga SMP. Cerita dimana aku mengirim surat ke seorang cewek idola namun yang membaca surat itu adalah bapaknya, cerita dimana aku pernah nembak cewek di belakang kelas waktu kelas 4 SD lalu pipis dikit di celana saking gugupnya, dan ada beberapa kisah lagi disitu. Tapi aku lupa. Akun facebook-ku sudah kuhapus tanpa mem-backup note-nya terlebih dahulu.

Kenapa hits? Karena aku tidak menyangka dalam semalam aku mendapat 11 likes dan komentar yang positif dari teman-teman untuk tulisan itu.

Ya elah, 11 doang dibilang nge-hits.

Namun dari situ, aku jadi lebih confident untuk memposting tulisanku sendiri di note facebook, dengan nuansa komedi pastinya.

Lalu semua berubah saat patah hati menyerang. Ketika kelas 3 SMA (SMK sih) aku bertemu dengan seseorang yang boleh dibilang merubah gayaku dalam menulis. Karena orang yang membuatku patah hati itu, sampai sekarang aku kesulitan untuk membangun cerita komedi lagi, walaupun banyak kejadian lucu yang terjadi dalam hidupku dan itu cukup layak untuk diceritakan. Setelah patah hati, aku pribadi menilai bentuk tulisanku lebih ber-hati dan sok-sok filosofis. Kontras dengan cita-citaku untuk membangun novel dengan genre komedi romantis.

Mestinya dengan pengalaman patah hati itu, aku lebih bisa membangun tulisan komedi romantis, ya? Karena sebelum patah hati itu, cerita cinta (monyet)-ku boleh dibilang lucu bin bodoh kalau diceritakan.

Tapi, ya sudahlah. Broken heart do changes people.

Setelah patah hati, orang tidak akan pernah sama dengan yang sebelumnya. Mereka yang gagal survive setelah patah hati, akan menjadi heartless, alias tidak punya hati. Tidak peduli dengan orang lain. Namun apa yang kualami ketika patah hati membuatku sadar kalau aku masih punya hati, karena patah hati hanya bisa dirasakan oleh orang-orang yang punya hati.

Makanya, jangan pernah bermain dengan hati.

Terakhir: Apa yang kalian baca di seluruh blog ini adalah tulisan Arif Ramadhan versi 2.0, karena versi 1.0 dulu ada didalam akun facebook yang kuhapus itu. Namun ada satu hal yang sama dari versi 1 maupun 2 dari tulisanku, yaitu: aku masih selalu mencoba menulis apa adanya. Tidak kurang, tidak lebih.

UN Warns Indonesia Quake Needs 'Vast' As Toll Nears 1,400

Nearly 1,400 people are now known to have died in the quake-tsunami that smashed into Indonesia's Sulawesi island, with UN officials warning needs are "vast" for both desperate survivors and rescue teams still searching for victims.

Almost 200,000 people want urgent help, the UN's humanitarian office said, among them tens of thousands of children, with an estimated 66,000 homes destroyed or damaged by the 7.5-magnitude quake and the tsunami it spawned. Survivors are battling thirst and hunger, with food and clean water in short supply, and local hospitals are overwhelmed by the number of injured. "The sense from the teams all working there... is one of real frustration," Jens Laerke, from the UN's humanitarian office, told reporters in Geneva late Tuesday. "There are still large areas of what might be the worst-affected areas that haven't been properly reached, but the teams are pushing, they are doing what they can." In the hard-hit city of Palu, which was trashed by tsunami waves that swept away people, cars and houses, police officers fired warning shots and tear gas on Tuesday to ward off people ransacking shops. As survivors pick through the shattered remains of their neighbourhoods, they find more and more bodies. "The death toll is now 1,374, 113 missing," Willem Rampangilei, head of Indonesia's national disaster agency, told reporters in Palu on Tuesday. "And there are still a few bodies trapped under the rubble. We don't know how many. Our priority is still to find and save people," he added. - Body bag shortage - Authorities are expecting the number of dead to continue rising as rescuers make contact with previously cut off areas. The Indonesia-based ASEAN Coordinating Centre for Humanitarian Assistance said that more body bags were "urgently" needed as fears grow that decomposing corpses could provide a breeding ground for deadly diseases. Rescue efforts have been hampered by a lack of heavy machinery, severed transport links, the scale of the damage, and the Indonesian government's initial reluctance to accept foreign help. The Indonesian military is leading the rescue effort, but following a reluctant acceptance of help by President Joko Widodo three days after the quake struck, international NGOs also now have teams on the ground in Palu. International aid offers have picked up since Jakarta asked for help. Late Tuesday the UN's Central Emergency Response Fund said it was releasing $15 million in aid. "The Government of Indonesia is experienced and well-equipped in managing natural disasters, but sometimes, as with all other countries, outside help is also needed," Mark Lowcock, the UN's Emergency Relief Coordinator, said in a statement. On Wednesday, Australia also announced it was sending a medical team to the disaster zone and was providing an additional $5 million in aid. Despite official assurances, desperation was evident on the streets of Palu, where survivors clambered through wreckage hunting for anything salvageable. - 'We need food and water' - Others crowded around daisy-chained power strips at the few buildings that still have electricity, or queued for water, cash or petrol being brought in via armed police convoy. "The government, the president have come here, but what we really need is food and water," Burhanuddin Aid Masse, 48, told AFP. Queues to get a few litres of petrol lasted more than 24 hours in some places. Sanitation is also a growing problem. "People everywhere want to go to the toilet but there's no toilet. So we do it along the road at night," said 50-year-old Armawati Yarmin. Palu's port, a key transit point for aid, has been damaged. Berths for ships survived the quake but many of the cranes and equipment that would be needed to quickly offload supplies were toppled by the tremors, the UN said. There are fears many of the more remote communities are missing out on the immediate aid response which has focused on Palu. Along the road to Donggala -- a large town close to the epicentre of the quake -- there were more scenes of destruction. The town itself appeared relatively unscathed, but in the worst affected areas it was difficult to find a single vertical surface. Donggala resident Farid, aged 48, pleaded for help: "Don't centre all the aid on Palu," he said. "We in Donggala have nothing." Indonesia is no stranger to natural disasters. It sits along the Pacific "Ring of Fire", the world's most tectonically active region, a location that lends the archipelago stunning volcanic scenery and fertile soils. But its 260 million people remain hugely vulnerable to earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions. A massive 2004 quake triggered a tsunami that killed 220,000 throughout the region, including 168,000 in Indonesia alone. Read the full article