Even if I don’t have a certain dream. “I just want to be myself in every conditions, do the things I love”. When you live as yourself, you can pursue your dreams without carrying punctured nail on your body. Even if we are different in many things, people my get the succesful now, but we don’t know what happend on the next day. Don’t be jealous of other people’s life because it will never end! If you just dream and dream and never wake up from your dream, how could it be? I always remember what Pablo Picasso said “everything you can imagine is real”. I mean it as a motivation, all the things that I imagine must be real! I also have a soul healing that I make by myself “calm down in every situations, if you panic, it doesn’t change anything”. People like sharing their life too much when I remember “Everybody no need to know how your life is”. Come on, what do people still care about other people’s life now? However, even if human being has no respcet at all, it doesn’t mean that we are the same as them. “Carrying each other is a must, even if I hate someone, I still care if the one I hate is in starving condition!” During my life, I find many characters of person and sometimes I feel they bother me, but “you can't force someone to be the same as you, and if they are annoying, it doesn’t mean you should hate them”. Even if people compete to get the succesful, more educated in the good education, and then they forget, they are not alone! Beating people is a habit but the only thing that you have to know “If you want to plant the roses, doesn’t mean that you have to destroy the jasmines”. Remind that.
Pembahasan akan dimulai dari berita yang lumayan hangat akhir-akhir ini, yaitu tentang bullying terhadap mahasiswa di salah satu universitas di Jakarta. So far, thanks untuk salah satu akun di Instagram(you-know-who) yang telah memposting video tersebut. Cukup memberi gambaran pada masyarakat bagaimana cara bertindak dan memberi kesadaran bahwa bullying itu hal yang kuno dan tidak berkeprimanusiaan.
Sebenarnya, masalah bullying bukan hal baru lagi di Indonesia karena sudah terjadi berkali-kali bahkan sudah pernah menelan korban. Jadi ceritanya, dari video itu terlihat sekitar 3 mahasiswa bercanda dengan meledek-ledek mahasiswa yang berkebutuhan khusus, dia dikelilingin dan setelah itu tasnya ditarik oleh salah seorang dari mereka. Si korban akhirnya melakukan perlawanan dan kemudian meninggalkan tempat kejadian. Disini saya sempat berpikir, kalau yang dia lawan adalah petinju sih oke-oke aja satu lawan tiga atau yang setara sama kekuatan mereka, bukannya menghakimi orang yang berkebutuhan khusus, gak punya nyali? Kalau kata Sherina sih jangan beraninya melawan orang yang lemah. Yang mirisnya lagi dari video itu adalah 'hai itu ngapain yang liat-liat cuman liat dan ketawa bukannya bantuin'. Menurut saya candaan yang mereka lakukan gak ada lucunya sama sekali dan malah mengganggu mental si korban. Kabarnya bukan hanya itu saja, kejadian bullying itu sudah terjadi selama setahun belakang seperti disuruh nyayi di depan kelas. Tetap pertanyaan besar saya tertuju pada orang-orang disekitar si korban di kampus, 'itu gak ada rasa mau menolong atau ngelindugin si korban yang inisialnya FH?' Dalam kasus itu pihak kampus/dosen sebenarnya juga bertanggung jawab menjaga stabilitas kampus terlebih ada mahasiswa disabilitas. Kementrian Sosial sudah mengeluarkan UU tentang bullying. Pihak universitas seharusnya sudah siap untuk memfasilitasi disabilitas di kampus dan jangan sampai lalai terhadap hal ini.
Jujur, saya sudah banyak nonton film-film bertemakan high school dan college yang ada bumbu bullying orang, dan ciri khas si pembully adalah orang yang terkenal atau ditakuti di sekolahnya. Saat SMP juga pernah liat semacam bullying tapi tidak separah kasus ini. Dari situ bukan berarti saya belajar bahwa membully seseorang adalah hal yang keren especially yang berkebutuhan khusus. Artinya kembali lagi pada empati. Kurangnya empati banyak penyebabnya mulai dari kurangnya perhatian dari orang tua atau lingkungan yang tidak bisa diikuti, dan menurut saya empati ini lebih cenderungnya ke atitude jadinya. Masalahnya adalah dari realita yang ada secara logis tapi gak bisa masuk ke hati, contoh sederhananya ada orang jatuh, bukannya ditolongin malah diketawain dengan alasan itu konyol. Dia tau kalau jatuh itu sakit tapi gak ada tindakan. oke, you can laugh but help first. Mahasiswa itu seharusnya pemikirannya sudah matang, sudah mengetahui mana yang baik dan mana yang buruk 'seharusnya'.
Dari yang terbully juga harus dibelaki dengan keberanian dan perlawanan sebelumnya. Karena kadang para pembully bisa saja berhenti membully kalau yang dibully melawan(melawan dengan cara yang wajar). Ibaratkan kata film Black Hawk Down 'jangan tembak duluan sebelum ditembak'. Jika yang terbully merasa terusik sah-sah saja dia melawan. Hal itu pun juga telah didukung oleh berbagai organisasi di Indonesia, salah satunya Kementrian Sosial.
Meskipun saya belum punya pengalaman secara langsung satu kampus atau berteman dengan disabilitas, tapi at least kita punya awareness dan cara untuk berhadapan dan besosialiasi dengan disabilitas. Secara logikanya, orang kesusahan ya manifestasinya pertolongan. Don't look any background of them, mau mereka siapa saja tetaplah menolong sesama adalah tindakan mulia. Buat semua orang, terutama 'maha'siswa yang tingkat pendidikannya sudah berada diatas on the way strata satu dan seterusnya, kuliah itu diperuntukan untuk membuka pikiran, tergantung pikirannya terbuka seperti apa jenisnya, terjerumus ke arah positif atau ke arah negatif. Yang pasti, jika ingin menanam mawar bukan berarti kita harus menebang melati. Sekian dan terimakasih.
Have you ever listened to the songs like "we are the champions?" or "we will rock you" at many moments in your life? Yap, it’s from Queen. However, did you know who is the masterpiece behind this band? He is Freddie Mercury. He was born as Farrokh Bulsara and had been living in India since he was a kid. After moving to England, he changed his name as Freddie Mercury. Well actually, I don't want to talk more about his past life here because I'm going to talk about his songs and his band.
So the story begins in 1986 when two students from London's Imperial College Brian May and Tim Staffell wanted a band and they made ads to promote it,they were looking for drummer and Roger Meddows Taylor succeed joined the band. They started SMILE as the name of the band but in 1970 Tim Staffell left from Smile and joined another band (you deserve a regret man). After Tim left the group, Farrokh Bulsara from Ealing College of Arts joined and changed SMILE into QUEEN,John Deacon joined as the youngest member. After graduating,they started to more active in many events like in the school or other places.
Freddie changed his name after joining QUEEN. He was very talented, he made the logo of Queen by himself,he designed the clothes for all the members and he almost all of Queen's song was made by Freddie. I'm not wondering, he graduated from art school and that was very good. He could do everything about arts. He better was known as a flamboyant man with eccentric style and adoring yellow as the favorite color(you can see his clothes). He liked Cats ohh cats everywhere and sometimes he talked to his cat. and the weird thing he did, he called his cat in the telephone for 3 hours.
Despite his attractive style, in other condition, he was a taciturn and talk less person.
(Wembley Stadium 1985 with the iconic jacket)
In the 1970s, Queen was not good as another band like Led Zeppelin before,especially in America they were nothing. But Queen didn't give up easily,Freddie created 'Bohemian Rhapsody' as the real evidence of his interest in Opera. Some producers underestimated the song. They thought that the song was weird and too long(but hey jude also too long!). The philosophy of this song also unknown as general,and when people asked Freddie what is the meaning,he said "you can mean it by yourself,it is up you".
There is also 'Love of my life' as one of the greatest hits from Queen. The history of this song is very sad I think. Freddie had his love of my life named Marry Austin. He swore to love the girl for the rest of his life. But they separated because of Freddie's bad habits(wasting money,drinking and smoking). He was very sad and made that song. But they still are close friend until the end of Freddie's life.
(Marry Austin and Freddie Mercury)
In 1985, Freddie diagnosed with HIV aids, he decided to keep it as a secret and kept going with Queen. It happened because of Freddie's bad lifestyle. Some medias said that he was a bisexual. Freddie decided to stop the treatment and wanted to enjoy life. His last appearance was in 11th Brit Awards held on February 18,1990.(He was gravely ill at that time! and other Queen's members knew it). This rumors had swirled since 1986 but Freddie denied it.
Queen took the stage at the Brith Awards to accept that year's Outstanding Contribution to British Music honor. In fact, it was May who had spoken on Queen's behalf, stepping up to the mic to offer thanks. "everyone in the industry and,perhaps more importantly,outside the industry who stuck behind us all these years" with giving the band a lot of freedom to pursue what we loosely call our art to any extent we felt like at the time," and after May's speech. Freddie leaning briefly into the mic to say simply "THANK YOU... GOODNIGHT" he exited with his bandmates.
(Last appearance of Freddie Mercury)
the final footage of Freddie is on 'These Are the Days of Our Lives'. In the final scene, decicedFreddie sits down the steps and he did very gingerly. Freddie decided to make the video in black and white so his illness was invisible. (saddest moment). 6 month after making that video, Freddie died. November 22 in 1991,he confirmed his diagnosis and a little more than 24 hours later,he was gone.
(making These Are the Days of Our Lives video)
As the flamboyant from man of Queen, HE IS THE GREATEST MUSICIAN EVER. I was not born in Queen era,actually I know Queen from my uncle's CD tapes and I began listening to Queen's song. My favorites are Bohemian Rhapsody,Radio Ga Ga, Love of My Life, To Love Somebody, We are the Champion,We Will Rock You, Don't Stop Me Now and others. First thing tha I confess is, I don't like rock genre,but when I listen to Queen, it sounds infinite and everlasting. Their music is very impressive and evergreen. Especially the man of the match, Freddie Mercury. Even if his life is shorter than we wish,but his existence is still here. Even if his teeth were not as perfect as the other teeth, oh damn it's not a big problem at all. The man with the perfect teeth in this world is nothing when you compare with Freddie Mercury.