Entries from January 2005 ↓

The Mourns at the Turn of the Year

It’s been long since I last write down some of my thoughts. It’s never too late to start again, I guess. To start with an end of something. End of not one and not two, but too many lives.

I’ve read a book entitled Einstein’s Dream by Alan Lightman. In that book, Einstein’s Relativity Theory was explained as a series of imaginative world where time was literally, relative. Time was the key in each of the world. In one world, time stood still, still relevant with its absence. People enjoyed the stillness, everyone was cheering, taking their endless time. In other world, time swifted by so quickly that everyone felt being chased by it. Everybody always looked over their shoulders to see if their time was catching up with their pace. Everybody felt their time was running out. And thus, this time, at the turn of the year 2004 to the year 2005, time stood still in the north coast of Sumatera Island, Indonesia. Continue reading →