Life being what it is - a series of intersecting lives and incidents
when i saw benjamin button movie last thursday, i got this long long quote, and i know that quote is exactly true about life!
Benjamin Button: Sometimes we’re on a collision course, and we just don’t know it. Whether it’s by accident or by design, there’s not a thing we can do about it. A woman in Paris was on her way to go shopping, but she had forgotten her coat - went back to get it. When she had gotten her coat, the phone had rung, so she’d stopped to answer it; talked for a couple of minutes. While the woman was on the phone, Daisy was rehearsing for a performance at the Paris Opera House. And while she was rehearsing, the woman, off the phone now, had gone outside to get a taxi. Now a taxi driver had dropped off a fare earlier and had stopped to get a cup of coffee. And all the while, Daisy was rehearsing. And this cab driver, who dropped off the earlier fare; who’d stopped to get the cup of coffee, had picked up the lady who was going to shopping, and had missed getting an earlier cab. The taxi had to stop for a man crossing the street, who had left for work five minutes later than he normally did, because he forgot to set off his alarm. While that man, late for work, was crossing the street, Daisy had finished rehearsing, and was taking a shower. And while Daisy was showering, the taxi was waiting outside a boutique for the woman to pick up a package, which hadn’t been wrapped yet, because the girl who was supposed to wrap it had broken up with her boyfriend the night before, and forgot.
When the package was wrapped, the woman, who was back in the cab, was blocked by a delivery truck, all the while Daisy was getting dressed. The delivery truck pulled away and the taxi was able to move, while Daisy, the last to be dressed, waited for one of her friends, who had broken a shoelace. While the taxi was stopped, waiting for a traffic light, Daisy and her friend came out the back of the theater. And if only one thing had happened differently: if that shoelace hadn’t broken; or that delivery truck had moved moments earlier; or that package had been wrapped and ready, because the girl hadn’t broken up with her boyfriend; or that man had set his alarm and got up five minutes earlier; or that taxi driver hadn’t stopped for a cup of coffee; or that woman had remembered her coat, and got into an earlier cab, Daisy and her friend would’ve crossed the street, and the taxi would’ve driven by. But life being what it is - a series of intersecting lives and incidents, out of anyone’s control - that taxi did not go by, and that driver was momentarily distracted, and that taxi hit Daisy, and her leg was crushed.
scene ini menggambarkan moment-moment yang menjadi satu dan mengakibatkan sebuah kejadian. apabila satu moment saja terlewati, maka mungkin saja kejadian akhir yang dihasilkan tidaklah sama. tapi, siapa yang tahu? toh kita tidak akan bisa mencoba ‘alternative destiny’.
terkadang gw memang suka mem-back-tracking beberapa kejadian dalam hidup. sebagai contoh, yang masih segar dalam ingatan, momen Sidang kemarin. Andai saja pagi itu tidak hujan sederas-derasnya, jalanan di pondok cabe tidak macet, gw ga dateng ke kos rizki untuk bawain payung, gw ga ketemu bambang dan danny di lift, atau gw lupa meminta satu doa dari sekian banyak orang yang gw minta doa nya, mungkin hasil akhir gw bukan A. mungkin berbeda, atau mungkin sama.
atau momen besar lainnya dalam hidup gw, ketika ato (tante) gw meninggal 1 tahun 2 bulan yang lalu. andai saja pagi di bulan desember itu gw tidak membicarakan akan menjenguk dia di jogja kalau liburan dengan papa, andai hari itu gw tidak memakai baju hitam yang tandanya orang berduka tapi baju merah misalnya, siang itu gw ga ke kos ichan, ga main kartu disana sama temen-temen, papa ga makan siang pas jam 1 itu, mungkin gw ga akan nerima telpon dari mama yang bilang ato meninggal.
gw percaya kata-kata benjamin button benar. hidup itu adalah sebuah seri dari kehidupan yang saling memotong dan berhubungan. diluar kontrol siapapun. suatu potongan-potongan peristiwa kecil yang jika dirangkai akan menghasilkan suatu hasil akhir yang besar. dan semuanya, tentu, adalah rahasia Tuhan.
