Elang yang Luar Biasa

Ternyata, Elang adalah unggas yang umurnya paling panjang didunia !
(copas dari milis)

Umurnya dapat mencapai 70 tahun. Tetapi untuk mencapai umur sepanjang itu seekor elang harus membuat keputusan-keputusan yang sangat berat pada saat umurnya mencapai 40 tahun.

Ketika berumur 40 tahun, cakarnya mulai menua,...paruhnya menjadi panjang dan membengkok hingga hampir menyentuh dadanya. Sayapnya menjadi sangat berat karena
bulunya telah tumbuh lebat dan tebal, sehingga menyulitkannya pada waktu terbang di angkasa.

Pada saat itu, elang Cuma punya 2 pilihan, yaitu menunggu kematian atau mengalami
proses transformasi yang sangat menyakitkan sepanjang 150 hari !

Jika ia memilih untuk melakukan transformasi, maka ia harus berusaha keras terbang keatas puncak gunung lalu kemudian membuat sarang di tepi jurang dan tinggal disana selama proses transformasi berlangsung. Pertama-tama, ia harus mematuk-matukan paruhnya pada batu karang sampai paruh tersebut terlepas dari mulutnya, kemudian
berdiam untuk beberapa lama menunggu tumbuhnya paruh baru.

Dengan paruh yang baru tumbuh itu, ia harus mencabut satu-persatu cakar-cakarnya dan ketika cakar yang baru tumbuh, ia akan mencabut bulu badannya satu demi satu.
Satu proses yang panjang dan menyakitkan yaitu ia harus menunggu selama lima bulan, baru bulu-bulunya tumbuh kembali. Lalu dengan paruh dan cakar dan bulu-bulu yang baru, elang tersebut akan menjalani 30 tahun kehidupan barunya dengan penuh semangat!
…..Kiiiiiiiiieeeeeee..ee..e.e.e.e..ee……KKkkkkk …...!!!

Sahabat, seperti keputusan elang tadi. Begitu juga dalam kehidupan kita, kadang kala kita harus melakukan suatu keputusan yang sangat berat untuk memulai sesuatu proses pembaharuan. Kita harus berani dan mau membuang semua kebiasaan lama yang mengikat, zona nyaman kita. Kita harus rela meninggalkan perilaku lama agar kita dapat memulai terbang lagi menggapai tujauan yang lebih baik di masa depan.
Atau kita lebih memilih untuk "mati" secara perlahan karena prilaku2 usang yang akan menghambat seluruh proses perbaikan untuk masa depan kita, semuanya ada ditangan kita masing2..

Tetap semangat dan menyemangati :)
Kiiii…iiiiiii..i.i….eeeeeeeee..ekkkk…kkkkkkk..kkkkkkkk ………….!!!!!!!

Beautiful Rainbow as the marvelous present for 8 hours at Jogjakarta

Oh my gosh! What time is it? 2am? Ups, are you kidding? This is the world record that I woke up at 2am and could not go back to sleep again. Is it because I was nervous that I could be overslept and be left out by my Lion? Hahaha… I guess so. And yes it was the earliest time for me to wake up in order to prepare myself to catch up my morning flight.

With a little error condition in my stomach and very sleepy eyes, finally I arrived at the airport and wait for the plane at the boarding area. I almost fell to sleep again but I could not and just enjoy the situation around me. I wonder how people can still choose early flight; because it’s cheap? For some persons yes, because sometimes the cheapest flight will be the early morning and the late night flights. When we do online booking to get the cheapest promo ticket, not much that we can choose ^_^ But for me, it’s just because I need to arrive at Jogjakarta at earliest time so I can finish my issue and still have some time to meet friends before go back to Jakarta.

Well, I did it ^_^ I am still quite amazed how I woke up that early, then had the short 8 hours at Jogjakarta, and go back to Jakarta in the same day without any tired feeling at all, the trip was safe, everything run as what I expected, and just thank God for beautiful rainbow ^_^

The rainbow accompanied me on the way back to airport with Liana who was taking me at the back of her motorcycle. Thanks a lot for the ride, Li, I’m so glad that I had the meeting with you during my short trip at Jogjakarta ^_^ I hope we can share more stories at your boarding house ya, not because you have offered your room for me to stay (thank you in advance, Li, glad to hear that hehehe…) ; but also because I can learn lots of life lessons from your stories; I appreciate your time to meet me, Li ^_^

I almost cried seeing the rainbow; not just because it’s so beautiful beyond words, but also because I was so overwhelmed by the greatness of God. Also some sentimental feeling that I was on the way back to Jakarta when I wanted to stay longer at my hometown to see my brother and his family that I could not meet yet because of the limited time. Ups, hehehe… I’m so sorry for that :( The rainbow was very close that I thought I could touch it even grab have those colors and put them in my body as my jacket…hahahahaha what an imagination! :D Because I don’t have any camera and the situation that time didn’t support me to take a picture, so I looked at the rainbow quite long, took a picture of it with my eyes, and keep it in my brain ^_^ Thank you, God, for the marvelous present! You are awesome!

*picture taken from country living website