The theories about time always
interesting.
Mulai dari teori waktu adalah
linear, waktu adalah titik 4 dimensi, time is an illusion, time is fluid. I think everything is make sense to me.
My second book this year is about
time-travelling. It’s from Japanese author
Toshikazu Kawaguchi called “Before the Coffee Gets Cold”. The book told 4 stories about 4 time
travellers, in which they going back to the past and the future in a coffee
shop. But series of rules follow
everyone who wants to try the time travelling experience. The rules are pretty hard; you must sit at
one particular chair – but you have to wait the ghost that always sitting there
to leave for a short moment on unpredictable time, you have to come back before
the coffee in front of you gets cold, and another series of rules. But the most important rule, you can’t do
anything that can change the present.
So maybe some of you asking what’s the
point of going back to the past if we can’t change anything?
Well, I wouldn’t mind…
If only I could turn back time to feel
a couple of things once again,
To say the words unsaid before,
To see someone you knew you could
never see them again in the future,
I think it worth the try.
Me personally touched by stories in
this book, I guess you can tell how the ending for each stories, but still continue
to read it. For me, I want to know how
they accept the fate and letting go at the same times.
And among those many theories about
time, I believe one from Sapardi Djoko Damono:
Yang fana adalah waktu
Kita abadi
Memungut detik demi detik, merangkainya seperti bunga
Sampai pada suatu hari kita lupa untuk apa
“Tapi, yang fana adalah waktu, bukan?” tanyamu.
Kita abadi.
