“The world keeps moving, and sometimes the only way to survive is to keep moving with it.”
Saya menatap wanita itu yang kini duduk tenang di kursi panjang sambil menyesap ocha tea yang masih mengepul hangat.
Obrolan kami awalnya ringan, tentang Jerman dan bagaimana orang-orang di sana menghargai privacy sampai saya kembali bernostalgia pada masa kuliah.
“I remember when I lived near the border of Germany and France in Switzerland” Saya mulai mengenang. “I really didn’t want to learn German at first. It felt too hard and I thought I could manage without it.”
Dia tersenyum dan menunggu saya melanjutkan. “But in daily life… it demanded it. I had to deal with signs, groceries, neighbors and everything else that came my way.”
“Well… me and my friend from Africa once bought cat food by mistake. We thought it was meat for humans because it was written in German and ended up making pasta with it.” Saya tersenyum tapi ada rasa getir terselip di baliknya.
Dia menatap dengan sorot mata lembut tapi penuh arti. “Life doesn’t wait. Whether you’re ready or not, things keep moving and guess what, it hits you just like that, doesn’t it?”
Kata-katanya terasa seperti tamparan lembut yang mengingatkan bahwa dunia tidak menunggu kesiapan saya dan setiap kesalahan memaksa saya untuk menyesuaikan diri.
“Life doesn’t wait for us to be ready. It moves forward whether we notice or not.”
Part 9.
