Sunday, July 21, 2013

insomnia

kali ini saya akan menulis dalam bahasa indonesia, karena post kali ini saya tujukan bagi remaja-remaja indonesia alay yang sering mengaku bahwa dirinya insomnia.
mengapa saya sangat tidak suka sekali dengan remaja-remaja ini? karena mereka menganggap insomnia seperti sesuatu yang keren dan happening, padahal saya sendiri mengalami gangguan tidur (bukan insomnia) dan sama sekali tidak menganggap itu keren. gangguan tidur seringkali merusak hari saya.


INSOMNIA
kalian dapat membacanya lebih detail di sini, tapi saya singkat di post ini agar kalian (mudah-mudahan) tidak malas membacanya.

1. insomnia adalah gangguan tidur yang membuat orang sulit jatuh tertidur, atau tidur selama yang ia harapkan.
jadi, orang-orang ini memang sulit jatuh tertidur, walaupun mereka sudah berbaring di tempat tidur, lampu mati, tempat tidur nyaman, dan lain-lain. pokoknya sekondusif apapun lingkungan tidur mereka, mereka susah tidur. jadi kalau kalian tidak tidur karena masih main internet, buka Twitter, kepo orang, main game, dan lain-lain, itu namanya bukan insomnia. selain sulit jatuh tertidur, bisa juga ia sulit menjaga agar ia tertidur selama yang ia harapkan, dengan kata lain, ia bisa terbangun sebelum waktunya. dan bila terbangun seperti itu, ia akan sulit tertidur lagi.

2. jam tidur yang bergeser sering disalahartikan sebagai insomnia.
mungkin kalian pikir, orang insomnia normal kalau bangunnya siang, wong mereka seringkali tidur pagi. nah, kalau seseorang tidur pagi tapi bangunnya juga siang, kemungkinan besar jam tidur orang tersebut bergeser (delayed sleep phase disorder). banyak orang yang sering begadang mengalami hal ini. menurut Wikipedia, perbedaan pergeseran jam tidur dengan insomnia adalah, orang yang jam tidurnya bergeser gampang tidur lagi saat pagi/siang hari, sedangkan orang insomnia tetap sulit tidur. nah, jadi perhatikan kalian termasuk yang mana.

3. penyebab insomnia
insomnia ringan (atau dapat disebut kurang tidur - sleep deprivation) umumnya disebabkan oleh stress. penyebab-penyebab lainnya sangat beragam mulai dari konsumsi kafein berlebihan, latihan fisik berlebihan, kebisingan di lingkungan sekitar, penyalahgunaan obat-obatan (stimulan, pereda nyeri, sedatif, dan lain-lain), hormon, rasa sakit/nyeri, penyakit syaraf, jet lag, sampai kelainan jiwa. jadi sekali lagi, tidak bisa tidur karena main internet dan lain-lain bukan penyebab insomnia.

ya, itulah sedikit yang ingin saya sampaikan mengenai insomnia. dengan post ini saya harapkan kalian yang masih sering beranggapan bahwa kalian insomnia dapat berubah pikiran dan tidak sembarangan menyebut diri kalian insomnia, apalagi hanya karena kalian belum bisa tidur pukul 1 pagi.

bila kalian merasa bahwa kalian mengalami gangguan tidur, jangan semata-mata menganggap kalian menderita insomnia. bisa saja kalian menderita rasa kantuk berlebih saat siang hari (excessive daytime sleepiness), pergeseran jam tidur (sleep phase disorder), atau bahkan narkolepsi (narcolepsy), atau mungkin gangguan-gangguan lainnya seperti sleep apnea dan lain-lain.


sumber: Wikipedia
*)note: bila ada kesalahan pengetikan maupun informasi, silahkan beri komentar kalian di post ini.

Sunday, July 14, 2013

a letter from your ordinary, quiet girl

uhm.

dear atheists,

look, i know that many of you is highly educated. you think a lot of things, yes. you try to match every phenomenons with logics and theories. and as you do so, you begin to question the relevance of God in our lives. and maybe you find God has nothing to do with this world. He is not creator; big bang theory can explain the creation of our Earth. He does not create humans; humans evolve from chimpanzees, at least that's what Darwin taught us. and there's your bio-genesis theory, explaining the origin of all living organisms. let's give applause for those people and their intelligence, shall we? thank you, scientists, for finding out those wonderful theories.
as for our lives, there's no explaining why we got our good and bad lucks, wonderful and terrible fates, right? it's just happening without us knowing why. and yeah... it's likely that we will have good things happening to us if we work hard and we have luck, and vice versa.
i still remember one of my friend said this to me: every man has to have something to believe in. oh wait, you believe in science? fellas, i do too. i believe in all things that make sense, i believe in all things that is scientifically proven. but you know, i also believe in Him, as all about Him is written in Holy Bible (i'm a Christian). to think about it, i don't even know what makes me believe in Him. maybe because my parents raise me that way? or maybe because believing God is ideal, they say? i don't know, but i keep believing in Him and His grace. i believe that life, world, galaxies, all phenomenons, things happened daily--all of it is controlled by something, and that thing has to be God. i believe that even those scientists can think about all those theories because God wanted them to.
i'm not a good disciple--not even close. i know sin will send me to hell, yet i still sin. nevertheless, i still need something to hold on and to believe in. don't you need one?
believing God would do no harm to you, so chillax. you won't lose anything even if in the end He does not exist. at least that's what your scientist, Pascal, said.

- from a not-so-well educated 19-yrs-old who does not read science books nor Holy Bible much


dear extremist who despise atheists,

why don't we make the world a better place by stopping judging atheists. after all every man has his own belief, and they occurred to believe in only science. but you people, i think you are delusional if you only think and act according to what's written in your religion holy guidebooks and, what's worse, God Himself.
first of all, just because a man does not believe in God doesn't mean he deserves all disgraces to happen upon them. after all God is something man made to ease all their curiosity and insecurity about hollowness left before they create a concept of God (at least this is what i know). it's man-made.
and believing God alone does not make you better of a human than an atheist is. remember, faith without action is death. what's the point of praising God if you still curse everyone who does bad to you? what's the point of saying God's name if you spread hatred towards everyone around you?
remember, they not believing God does not have anything to do with you. after all that's why it's called belief. let us make peace not war, let us spread love not hate. let's open up our mind and be anything but a bigot. let's tolerate difference more.

- from a girl who is pissed off seeing hypocrisy


Thursday, July 4, 2013

You Already Know

i love this song a lot,

Bombay Bicycle Club - You Already Know

the lyric is so good that i want to share it here...
check it out


the moment we forgot we were just good friends
i moved my arm her face went red again


one more bus home 
another silent weekend

said love was painted gold
like all things growing old
the paint peels and slowly falls
you already know

looking out the glass
always sit together
we both know we could be someone better
not with our heads like London weather

said love was painted gold
like all things growing old
the paint peels and slowly falls
you already know


i always feel so gloomy every time i listen to this song.
it reminds me that nothing gold can stay; good times cannot last forever.
and i remember all good old times with all good old friends i ever had.
now that i remembered, it all feels like it happened long, long time ago, in some period of my life that i thought never existed
and i miss those moments so much it began to hurt, it really do.



the paint peels and slowly falls, i know.