“Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a new way to stand.”
Oprah Winfrey
“Mbak Sarah, aku terjebak di Shanghai.” Mbak Patsy memberikan kabar singkat pagi itu.
“Setelah Nanning dirimu mampir Shanghai dulu yah, mbak Pats ?” Saya mencoba mengkonfirmasi karena susah untuk tracking jadwal pindah negara masing-masing.
“Aku memang mampir Shanghai dulu, tapi stuck di Shanghai lagi mau balik Indonesia.” Mbak Patsy menjawab dengan santai tanpa nada panik dan saya pun menanggapi dengan reaksi yang sama.
“Mbak Sarah, kapan meet up , aku ada banyak story seru dan lucu.” Mbak Patsy berkata dengan nada ceria.
“ Yuk, anyway, proud of you, tidak panik saat tornado, Mbak Pats.”
“Sudah terbiasa, mbak Sarah.”
Percakapan singkat pagi itu membuat saya merenung kembali. Setiap terjebak badai, kami dipaksa untuk mampu menghadapi hal yang beyond our capacity to handle things. Namun kami bukannya jera, sebaliknya tetap traveling dengan segala konsukensinya termasuk storm yang bisa datang menerjang kapan saja.
Sudah setumpuk pengalaman mencekam karena terjebak di aneka storm mulai dari cyclones, twister, tornado hingga blizzard. Selain itu saat hurricanes di America, typhoons di Manila, Hong Kong and Macau and one thing they share in common is that they’re all scary and deadly as hell.
Oh well, I cry, curl and fold in sadness and is on the brink of breaking down but then the survival spirit within me gives me an unknown power to rise again , overcome and ready to take on new challenges.
Dear me, even though any challenges in life are not fun, don’t give up and always trust Allah to get you through them.
“You have two choices: You can come down from the mountain and spend the rest of your days thinking it was so beautiful there, or you can create a vision, look upward, see the next mountain, and start the climb all over again.”
Oprah Winfrey
