Marahban Ya Ramadhan...
The fasting is tomorrow. Good bye breakfast, good bye warteg and hello kolak and huge evening meals.
Hello to the youth walking the narrow streets near my room, at three in the morning, shouting
SAHUUUUR so every hungry soul can wake up and fill their belly before emptying their appetites for the day to follow.
I'm not a Muslim. I'm probably more of a feral Taoist, or the disciple of a love child between Confucius and Nietzsche.
It doesn't matter, today is about forgiving. That's what everybody says around here.
Mohon maaf lahir dan batin, 'I beg you to forgive me, body and mind'.
Past the dull exchange of formalities any seasonal greeting turns into, I actually enjoy the ritual.
What did I do that could have offended you?
Ah, you didn't say, rascal! And now I feel bad. But hey...now, if you mean it, all is forgiven, and thank you for that.
If you think about it, a lot is to be forgiven.
Take a look around the web, and see all the hate toward... well... toward too many, from too many places, under too many flags and too many faith.
I think it's the right time to see what we've gotten into and again, this year, turn the page and forgive the hate, start over an empty tab and with it won't ever get filled again.
To wish... don't I write foolish words? To endeavor so that tab, the great
buku dosa of mankind, stays blank.
So to all of you people, I beg for forgiveness, body and mind.
Now let's go eat a huge lunch while we still can :D
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