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Disamperin aliran di Korea

Salah satu pengalaman yang gw dapatkan selama trip sebulan lamanya di Korea selama musim gugur ini adalah disamperin cult atau aliran tertentu. Jadi memang di Korea itu seperti jadi surga buat aliran-aliran agama baru tumbuh, mungkin udah pada pernah juga nonton dokumenter salah satu aliran gereja di Korea yang lumayan terkenal sesatnya. Gw gak tau kenapa pastinya banyak aliran-aliran baru atau aliran sesat muncul di Korea, ada beberapa hipotesis tapi ya masih hasil pemikiran gw aja. Dari jaman dulu sampe sekarang kayak masih gak berubah aja. Sebagai catatan, dulu salah satu aliran sesat sempat masuk ke lingkungan kampus tempat gw pertukaran pelajar di Korea. Di situ mereka emang nargetin mahasiswa asing. Modusnya adalah sebagai mahasiswa asing kita diajak volunteer, ada kelas bahasa, ada kunjungan ke panti jompo, dll. Nanti selama kegiatan itu kita akan pakai atribut tertentu, dan mengucapkan yel-yel terselubung yang dianggap bagian dari dokumentasi saja. Hasil dokumentasi berupa foto...

Let’s talk about the unimportant thing: I wrote an album titled BYE2020

 As a commitment to myself to just create and do things as it is, I challenged myself to make a ‘fun’ album for this year. This 2020 year, where everything I never imagined happens is happening (in a bad way, what else is there) A quick reminder to a quote that I really love and resonates with me really deep, sculpted to the deepest wall of my heart.  “ You are not required to save the world with your creativity. Your art not only doesn’t have to be original, in other words; it also doesn’t have to be important .“ - Elizabeth Gilbert And as I reduced my passive consumption towards medium like twitter and Instagram and all that time-and-brain-sucking activity, I increase my intentional leisure activity. Following the tips from ‘Digital minimalism’ book that I read while doing my ‘no twitter challenge’, I made my version of a seasonal leisure plan. Basically a plan about things I want to do to fill up my time so that it is not filled up with negative activities. And creating thi...