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The Idea of Living Your Life to the Absolute Fullest

Live your life to the absolute fullest. Sounds like a commercial phrase? Indeed. But loong before I looked at the commercial, I had been trying to do so, hehe.

I had tried doing this and that, and sometimes without even really thought about the consequences! Let’s say that every time I had bits of doubts, this what I said to myself: Hey, you only live once! Chances don’t come twice! Come on, what are you waiting for? And so forth and so on.

At times, I looked back and laughed at some stupid and silly things that I had done :D Some of them are fun, yes. And a bit “crazy” too. Well let’s not ask about what I DID but just talk about how they made me, the person that I am today. Yes, I feel that to be spontaneous is indeed fun and to feel that jolt of adrenaline is…addictive muahaha. 

But then again, I realized that we should really make a difference between “stupid” and “gaining new experiences”. Because when I looked back, well let’s say there’s some things that I can laugh at, but there are also a few things that I…(let’s not say regret because it’s such a bad term)….wish I had thought twice before doing. 

Dear fellow readers, I hope that after I write this post, I can contemplate with myself about things that I WILL do in the future with more sense and sensibility (yes you have just read myself typing Jane Austen’s book title huehehe)…but still with the fun and thrill :D Whaddya think?

Hill and Grin

So, some of my resolutions from my last text post had been accomplished already! 

I went to beautiful beaches and finally hiked a mountain! I just got back to Jogja today in fact. 

I hiked Lawu, located near Solo and you gotta go to Tawang Mangu first.  But you can google the itsy bitsy details later if you’d like, and I’m not gonna write about the travel journey anyhow.

To be honest, hiking is not really my thing. I like doing outdoor activities, yes. But rafting and canoeing and stuff that can be done in water is more intriguing and I prefer those activities more, with no particular reasons. 

So even I surprised myself when I decided that: Yes, I want to hike mountains! So sudden and out of the blue and - again - with no particular reasons. It just popped out from my mind one beautiful sunny day. *plak*

And so, I had just realized that you can actually reveal people’s personalities from mountain hiking. You see, when we’re in the middle of nowhere, doing quite extreme things, you can make observations of what kinds of decisions that they will make, or what kind of food that they can cook (ga nyambung tapi bener sih)

Ze Lawu Team!

I had seen egos and emotions and decision makings and backgrounds and I had even figured out my own side that I may not haven’t realized before.

I can say that quite lots of things had happened in my 2-days-hiking and descending: some people got ill, emotional, and our team met another team that haven’t got their equipment ready! I had tell my stories to a friend, and she said that: you had so many dramas up there, right? YES, I definitely did!

But I also got so many fun things and shared great laugh. Let’s say that we can consider those dramas and stuff happened as lessons worth to learn :D

Cause hey, whenever you see a hill that you had to climb, you can totally forget the pain by enjoying the scenery and put that stupid big grin on your stupid messy dirty face :D - and I had tried doing that - literally.