The Movement Against Hunger #2 - Be Grateful

I saw a documentary film at church about the movement against hunger in earth. Began with set in a fast food restaurant, and then turned to a group of teenager who were chatting while eating. Not too long after that they left the restaurant with the leftover food on the table. Then the scene focused into the restaurant kitchen, especially the trash  where the rest of the foods that had been consumed by the visitors located, and then there came a feeble old man with a rubbish basket, he took the rest of the junk foods and choose the parts that are not too dirty and still left quite a lot. He arrived home and was welcomed by five children poured out of the house with a face full of joy. And they were his children, the father opened the basket and the children scramble to take the leftover food restaurant. And they ate it. They ate the rest of the foods with a great happiness that glows from their eyes that night. And the most surprising part is the father didn’t forget to lead the prayer before the dinner and He said to his children to always give thanks for the food that they get. Then this film ended by the family laughter and smiles during the dinner…

"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread."
-- Mohandas K. Gandhi

Heartbreaking, really.

Pathetic to see some people couldn't realize how lucky they are compared to people like the garbage picker man. Many people always feel dissatisfied and insufficient with what they currently have; they continuously compare their lives with people whose standards of living are much higher than theirs. Don’t they remember? There are many people whose life is far beneath the poverty threshold, who live under the bridges, survive with a bit of hopes and skills to obtain a bite of rice. Don’t they realize? Life would be better if they begin to be grateful for their lives; for what they currently have; for the things they get without asking; for convenience that anyone else don’t get; for excess food that they could afford.

Be grateful for your life now, for everything that affluent even excessive.

Change your view of life; take decision to be a better you. For those who suffer from hunger which snatched their happiness; for those who are in pain because starvation; for those who already taken; for those who keep smiling even though skin is the only thing that left overlying their bodies.

'The war against hunger is truly mankind's war of liberation."
-- John F. Kennedy

When you decide to help the hungry people by giving food that was formerly part of the food that you dispose uselessly , it mean you played a role in the movement against hunger. 13 million children are in hunger around the world and 40,000 people die every day from hunger. Make a change and be a part of few people that helped the starving.

"Why should there be hunger and deprivation in any land, in any city, at any table, when man has the resources and the scientific know-how to provide all mankind with the basic necessities of life? There is no deficit in human resources. The deficit is in human will."
-- Martin Luther King, Jr

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The Movement Against Hunger #1 - Day Minus 5

"Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough."
-Oprah Winfrey

I’m a big food lover. I’d love to accept anyone who invites me for a culinary tour. I stand for hours to see TV show about food and cooking. Basically, I love eating. I frequently spend time with some of my friends hanging out to go eating. And often, I saw they are wasting foods in vain. Especially, rice. I don’t know is there any special reason behind that. Some of them just ate one or two spoons, and then the rest is wasted. Maybe they don’t like it and decide to not eat it. I thought they shouldn’t ordering food that they don’t like, do they? I really don’t like those types who love to throw food, not only because I’m a foodie, but also there is something extremely crucial behind a bite of rice that being wasted.

Far out there, somewhere, there are hundreds or even millions people drenched in sweat toil every day, against the heat of afternoon sun in the middle of the street selling newspaper, busking, scavenger, fight tooth and nail don’t considering the mounting tiredness, or maybe stealing or picking pockets up, until the worst is willing to die for a dime of money for a bite of rice. Noticeable difference. Social gaps that is so pathetic. People throw away foods that easy and the other sides there are people who scavenge food from the garbage can.

"When we work to end childhood hunger, we are giving our love to kids who need it so much they will never ask for it."
-- Beau Bridges

I grew up with a strong embedded self consciousness about appreciating foods, about how grateful that we are able to eat without working hard. Sometimes some people forget how it feels struggling or had never feeling a hard life thereby making them forget to be grateful. Or at least show their appreciation for their parent hard work to earn money by being wise in ‘throwing foods case’. I didn’t mean to offend anyone, let alone patronizing you. I just expressed what had been jammed in my mind; write what I think needs to be written and tell what I think you all need to know. No more, no less….

Help those who is in hunger with small things like stop wasting food.
-- Hana Novita Hasan

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"We know that a peaceful world cannot long exist, one-third rich and two-thirds hungry."
-- Jimmy Carter

"We need to stop the dying and start the living; stop the hunger and start the hoping."
-- Penelope Cruz

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Deep and truthful

Unending love

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times…
In life after life, in age after age, forever.
My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs,
That you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms,
In life after life, in age after age, forever.

Whenever I hear old chronicles of love, it’s age old pain,
It’s ancient tale of being apart or together.
As I stare on and on into the past, in the end you emerge,
Clad in the light of a pole-star, piercing the darkness of time.
You become an image of what is remembered forever.

You and I have floated here on the stream that brings from the fount.
At the heart of time, love of one for another.
We have played along side millions of lovers,
Shared in the same shy sweetness of meeting,
the distressful tears of farewell,
Old love but in shapes that renew and renew forever.

Today it is heaped at your feet, it has found its end in you
The love of all man’s days both past and forever:
Universal joy, universal sorrow, universal life.
The memories of all loves merging with this one love of ours -
And the songs of every poet past and forever.

~Rabindranath Tagore
Translated by William Radice

Actually I'm not in the mood of writing anything, due to my pilling up assignment I found my level of fatigue is on the highest level... So I copy this incredible writing to my blog. 

Bonne nuit

Beaucoup d'amour

Hanna

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Random thought...

S H E

Teach me right from wrong.

Teach me to see everything in every different point of view.

Teach me to stop hating.

Teach me to stop holding grudges; life is too short to spend in vain.

Teach me to let go of something that suppose to gone.

Teach me to forget anything that isn’t worth to stay.

Teach me to forgive anyone who did mistakes; cause I did mistakes too; people did; everyone did; no one never do mistakes; mistakes are there to give us life learning; to differ the right from the wrong one.

Teach me to feel thanked in every life condition; because life itself is a blessing.

Teach me to surrender in God; because when there is no one that able to help me, remember that I will always in His reach; whenever I needed Him, all I need to do is fold my hands and close my eyes; then pray.

She is the first person that tells me that nothing is impossible; I thought she was right because the word ‘impossible’ itself say: “I’m-possible”.

Don’t be surprised if most of my blog post contained about my mom. Since she is everything and mean the world to me, I’ll just write about her… again and again. I love her more than anything.

"It's not easy being a mother.  If it were easy, fathers would do it." – Unknown. 

Thanks for the love mom

Much love from the distance

Your little badass girl

Hanna

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Mommy and September

Recent song on played: Wake Me Up When September Ends – Green Day

 “Here comes the rain again…falling from the stars…drenched in my pain again…becoming who we are…”

Wake me up when September ends is the perfect theme song on this time if my life were a movie. Umm I know what is in your mind right now. It is my second blog post tonight & I just wrote this within half and an hour from the previous post, I’ve told you before…My mind will explode if I don’t write something up, got too much thought in my head and feels like I want to write it my heart and brain out tonight…but my eyes and hand won’t have enough strength to overcome this. So let’s get started…

October 1^st, 2011

*feels like diary tehe*

Time goes so fast. It flies in a speed like a Concorde flew. Silent and genuinely fast. Goodbye September, Hello Beautiful October…I’m knocking on your door. Give me your sweetest welcoming and let me in by the time goes by. The first and always my number one wish on every month is Jesus please bless, guide and keep my parent save. Please, give long life and health to the two people I loved the most in this world after You, would You please give them protection and guidance to always be under Your protection and Your way. Then keep my family that hundreds kilometer apart from here. Mommy, Daddy, Lil sister, my dog, my grampa & nana there.

 Second, I want God to always be with me in every decision on my life that I make. Decisions in university matters, life and romance. I wish every decision I take won’t make my parents disappointed but proud of me, because I believe that my parents let go off me away from hometown not with cries and tears but with a lot of hope. Hope that one day their little girl become someone they can be proud of and carry the family name, because I don’t want to carry even one bit of disappointment from here. I want every single thing that I do make them proud.

Two wish that have included the entire wish that I wishing right now. Actually I got something to tell, that I should’ve told here in early September. I know this is late, way too late indeed.

Happy belated birthday to half of my soul, my favorite, my mood booster, my love and my wingless angel that is Mommy. I would not be here right now if it is not because of you. Thank you for seventeen years ago when you insisted on giving me birth even though your life is in danger. Thank you for the choice that you took that moment to keep fighting to get me out when I could not barely get out because I was born with feet first and my head stuck up, then all over my body turned to blue because I was almost out of breath. Thank you for the first nine months that was so precious, as a baby.

Thanks for the infinite love that you gave me; for the most sincere and unconditional love; for the incredible patience; for every door of forgiveness; for the opportunity you let me see the beauty of the world; for every strand of prayer you sent that you put my name into. Mommy, you are my role models because you are the strongest person that I have ever met in this world, maybe not in literally or physical sense but your heart. The one that is incredibly immovable and steadfast; yet so delicate and affectionate.

I want you to know that I love you as deep as the ocean, as high as the sky, as wide as the wide open ocean, somehow I regret old time when I did stupid things that lead you to anger, I’m sorry for that old times when once I act like I don’t care and make you angry. I really don’t want to. I really am. Sorry. You know I love you, even though I never say it through words but I show it through action not words. I know you can see that, I know. Thanks mommy, you know you’re always being my best friend like forever. I love every second that I spent with you, every talk and chitchat that we made, every late night phone call that we made, every joke that we turn into laugh, I don’t know is there any word that can express my feeling right now that more than thank you and I love you. Everything that you did; every word that you said; every hugged and kissed that you give me; will stay forever in my mind, brain and heart. For everything, thank you mom. You are the best. Ever.

"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness."  -Honoré de Balzac

"Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible."  -Marion C. Garretty, quoted in A Little Spoonful of Chicken Soup for the Mother's Soul

"A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts."  -Washington Irving

Dedicated to the one and only the best mom ever: Dahlia Lukito Retno

Long life mommy :)

 Don't ever make your mom cry 

Cause without her, there would be no 'you'

Tons of love

Hana

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Start it within ourselves

Damn. Feels like ages huh? I've been away from blogging for a week & my brain couldn’t stop to make so much thought inside my head. I don’t know where to start *again* I got so much ideas inside but it’s a little bit hard to write it out. Maybe this is the side effect of too much self torturing for my mid test. Oh anyway I just finished my mid test last Thursday, it spent four days and I hope I’ll got at least good mark on it. Emm well should I tell you this or not? Okay, I’ll tell you.

I start to love this new whole beginning. Well, seems so cliché right? Menyehehe I warn you before. Didn’t know what had happen but…I feel bounded with them, feels like I belong here, and fitted perfectly here. I really am enjoying this new neighborhood. New friends, new place, new condition, new environment, New Year and also new experience for being a university student. Isn't it feels indescribable adorable right? You told me. As most of you feel when you stepped for the first time on University…that feeling, when you feel so missed high school time and start comparing high school time with your new premises in the University that in fact the people inside the community has a high degree of individuality.  Isn’t it feels much better now is it? Thing doesn’t get worse now right? You got friends that just like you lately right? Everything need time, much less time to adapt. Adaptation is needed in some case and condition. But you have to be you, adaptation mean changing your way of doing something, but not the whole you. You don’t have to be someone else to fit in some community. You don’t have to be ashamed and afraid of being different. In some way being different is good. You know, no one is better than you to be you. If they don’t accept you for who you are, you don’t have to change, but they are. It’s not your loss to lose something like them, it’s their loss. If you choose to change in order to fit in someone wants you might losing someone who love you for who you are. So, don’t.

Being different is beautiful. There will be no beautiful word if there was no difference in this world. Imagine if all of people are blue-eyed, blonde and all tall. It is definitely would be extremely boring right, living in a world full of similarities. Remember there is no one that has the right to force you to be someone else but yourself.

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself". - Harvey Fierstein

“First, you have to love yourself in order to love others.

Start it within ourselves

and the universe itself

will love us

for return.” 

–Hana Novita

I'm different and I'm  proud of being me,

Much love

Hana

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