Seyogyanya bahan pembicaraan di dalam artikel ini bukanlah sesuatu hal yang baru. Penulis bahkan baru tersentil untuk mengangkat topik ini setelah secara kebetulan membaca dua artikel di situs http://sillystupidlife.com/2009/04/01/time-to-speak-out/ dan http://the-tao-of-marcell.blogspot.com/2009/04/mohon-maaf.html--hasil blog walking Penulis. Intinya, kedua artikel tersebut mengungkapkan keberatan mereka terhadap penggunaan kata 'Autis' di dalam daily jokes kita sehari-hari.
Ya, terkadang kita lupa atau tidak menyadari bahwa penggunaan kata 'Autis' itu bisa berubah menjadi sebuah makna negatif yang dapat menyinggung perasaan sejumlah pihak. Penulis mulai merasakan kejanggalan kata itu ketika penulis berkunjung ke kos-kosan seorang teman. Ketika mengagumi salah satu prakarya beliau (catatan: berbentuk bintang-bintang kecil yang terbuat dari kertas warna-warni), dia kemudian menjawab: "Ah, itu sih kerjaan gue pas lagi autis aja hel".
Belakangan, penggunaan istilah yang mengganggu itu terus menerus penulis dengar dalam percakapan sehari-hari. Ketika demam BlackBerry melanda sejumlah khalayak di mall se-Bandung Raya. Kita dengan mudah menggunakan kalimat seperti: "Aduh, autis banget ya kalo punya BB". Ketika salah satu teman kita menggumam sendiri ketika sedang mendengarkan musik, kita berkomentar: "Aduh, autis banget sih ini anak."
Padahal, Autisme bukanlah sebuah keadaan yang pantas untuk dijadikan bahan lelucon sehari-hari. Sebagai seseorang yang memiliki sepupu yang menderita penyakit tersebut, penulis rasa sudah saatnya kita mulai mengeliminasi penggunaan kata-kata tersebut di dalam keseharian kita. Masih banyak kata-kata lain yang rasanya lebih pantas ketimbang menggunakan kata yang hanya akan menyakiti perasaan sejumlah pihak.
Ya, mungkin terkadang kita tidak menyadari bahwa ada beberapa kata-kata yang sebetulnya menyangkut isu sensitif. Misalnya, istilah 'Kanker' yang menjadi bahasa keseharian untuk abreviasi 'Kantong Kering'. Bayangkan perasaan orang yang mengidap atau memiliki kenalan yang juga mengidap penyakit tersebut. Memiliki ayah seorang Oncologist membuat penulis juga kurang menyukai istilah itu.
Memang, sebagai manusia yang memiliki kemampuan untuk berpikiran obyektif kita seharusnya bisa menyaring mana kata-kata yang memang dijadikan sebuah lelucon atau serius. Sayangnya, kita sebagai manusia kadang lebih memilih untuk menyederhanakan masalah untuk diri kita sendiri tanpa menyadari bahwa kata-kata yang diluncurkan dapat menyakiti perasaan yang lain.
Yang jelas, catatan kecil ini juga akan menjadi sebuah input untuk diri penulis untuk lebih welas asih dan berhati-hati dalam bertutur kata. Ada kalanya sebuah obyektifitas bukan hanya dijalankan oleh mereka yang menerima informasi namun juga mereka yang memberikan informasi.
Godspeed,
Amahl S. Azwar
Juli 2009
In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into your heart where it spears its roots the answer and ask yourself; must I write? (Rainer Maria Rilke)
Kamis, 09 Juli 2009
Minggu, 28 Juni 2009
In Which We Meets Mahel, Someone Who Recently Failed
“Arthur Abbott: Iris, in the movies we have leading ladies and we have the best friend. You, I can tell, are a leading lady, but for some reason you are behaving like the best friend.
Iris: You're so right. You're supposed to be the leading lady of your own life, for god's sake! Arthur, I've been going to a therapist for three years, and she's never explained things to me that well. That was brilliant. Brutal, but brilliant.”
In case some of you don’t get it, that was a quotation from one of my favourite movie: The Holiday. The scene told us when the character Iris (played by Kate Winslet) were taught by Arthur Abbott (Eli Wallach), an elderly man, that she was supposed to be in control of her own life instead of hiding underneath someone’s shadows. The quotation came to my mind after I just finished reading the so-called book “He’s Just Not That into You” written by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo.
The book encourages the ladies out there to stop being so insecure whenever they lose their man: because maybe he’s just not that into you. Therefore, you need to take charge on your own life. See, at one of the pages Greg confess that he initially wanted to write a book entitled “She’s Just Not That into You” only to realize that it wouldn’t sell million copies. Well, that’s another story. Nevertheless, it showcases that the book could be apply on man and woman. Moreover, it’s not just about one the relationship: it also covers the rest of the so-called failure in your life.
Lately, there’s some sad news that I have to encounter: the last result of my thesis (I graduated, though), the resignation of my dear friend at the Coffee Shop etc. But reading the book and really analyze the hidden message behind it and concluded by the quotation I put above … made me realize that you are supposed to be the leading actors/actresses in your own life. About the last result of my thesis, it came to me that I should just shake it off and move on with the next steps of my life (Hey, I got too many A’s in the past. Some B’s won’t killed me). The resignation of my dear friend ought to push him in order to become the better person (He still lives in Bandung anyway, it’s not like someone written him out of the script).
Sometimes we got it the wrong way. When things don’t turn out the way we want it to be, we tends to blame others. When we fail, we thought that we are a failure. The fact is ‘failure situation’ only took two or three episodes from the entire series that God (only the best scriptwriter ever) written for us. My point is? Live life, love life.
XOXO
“Claire Colburn: So you failed. Alright you really failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You think I care about that? I do understand. You wanna be really great? Then have the courage to fail big and stick around. Make them wonder why you're still smiling.”
PS: This article is the first one for another blog of mine www.mcmahel.blogspot.com which basically more relaxed and not-so-political like the previous one www.amahlazwar.wordpress.com. Enjoy!
Iris: You're so right. You're supposed to be the leading lady of your own life, for god's sake! Arthur, I've been going to a therapist for three years, and she's never explained things to me that well. That was brilliant. Brutal, but brilliant.”
In case some of you don’t get it, that was a quotation from one of my favourite movie: The Holiday. The scene told us when the character Iris (played by Kate Winslet) were taught by Arthur Abbott (Eli Wallach), an elderly man, that she was supposed to be in control of her own life instead of hiding underneath someone’s shadows. The quotation came to my mind after I just finished reading the so-called book “He’s Just Not That into You” written by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo.
The book encourages the ladies out there to stop being so insecure whenever they lose their man: because maybe he’s just not that into you. Therefore, you need to take charge on your own life. See, at one of the pages Greg confess that he initially wanted to write a book entitled “She’s Just Not That into You” only to realize that it wouldn’t sell million copies. Well, that’s another story. Nevertheless, it showcases that the book could be apply on man and woman. Moreover, it’s not just about one the relationship: it also covers the rest of the so-called failure in your life.
Lately, there’s some sad news that I have to encounter: the last result of my thesis (I graduated, though), the resignation of my dear friend at the Coffee Shop etc. But reading the book and really analyze the hidden message behind it and concluded by the quotation I put above … made me realize that you are supposed to be the leading actors/actresses in your own life. About the last result of my thesis, it came to me that I should just shake it off and move on with the next steps of my life (Hey, I got too many A’s in the past. Some B’s won’t killed me). The resignation of my dear friend ought to push him in order to become the better person (He still lives in Bandung anyway, it’s not like someone written him out of the script).
Sometimes we got it the wrong way. When things don’t turn out the way we want it to be, we tends to blame others. When we fail, we thought that we are a failure. The fact is ‘failure situation’ only took two or three episodes from the entire series that God (only the best scriptwriter ever) written for us. My point is? Live life, love life.
XOXO
“Claire Colburn: So you failed. Alright you really failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You think I care about that? I do understand. You wanna be really great? Then have the courage to fail big and stick around. Make them wonder why you're still smiling.”
PS: This article is the first one for another blog of mine www.mcmahel.blogspot.com which basically more relaxed and not-so-political like the previous one www.amahlazwar.wordpress.com. Enjoy!
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