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#tentang aku yang offensive, defensive, dan stubborn Some people may think I am offensive and defensive (and stubborn).... Akhir-akhir ini mulai kepikiran lagi, apakah gue perlu berubah? Well, semua orang perlu berubah untuk jadi versi yang lebih baik, tapi sejauh mana? Jadi, di suatu kesempatan, gue ngobrol ringan, dan entah gimana gue secara spontan memberikan argumen yang mungkin terkesan meng-counter dan akhirnya gue merasa kalau pendapat yang gue berikan membuatnya tersinggung... Mungkin, karena beberapa waktu belakangan lebih banyak ngobrol dengan mereka yang yaudah dan ngga masalah kalau gue punya pendapat beda. Gue kemudian lupa memposisikan diri, sesuatu yang biasanya gue lakukan kalau gue berada di situasi yang baru, karena gue pikir dia udah kenal gue dan pribadi gue yang sering argue. Sebenarnya, gue seneng banget untuk having discussion. Tapi, pengalaman membuat gue menyadari kalau gue punya potensi (yang besar) membuat orang lain tersinggung. Gue kadang (ngga sih serin...

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#tentang kompetisi I was asked, do I have instagram? This question then continued to a discussion about how people decades ago kept sane without media that give them space to express their feeling and get responds from it. These days you have various medium to express your emotion, you can tweet, make stories in instagram or whatsapp, make vlog, speak at podcast, write a blog (?). Even tough, it can't solve your problem  most of the time, but you feel a little bit better after doing so. Also, an addition of comments,  replies, or notifications usually make you happy, give you a pleasure feeling that you are noticed. You check phone all the time and sometimes get an empty feeling if there is no notification pop up, no chat, or no likes, especially from someone the most you'd expected. But, this was different with people decades ago, they don't have access to such media and they were looked fine. I've just read about paradox, they said, the easier our live, the ...