This one isn’t part of my usual body‑positive/fetish catalog — it’s something different.
At Least He Was Never Boring is a grounded, character‑driven story about memory, identity, and the strange ways we try to hold on to the people we’ve lost. It leans more literary and speculative than my typical releases, with a quieter emotional tone and a focus on human connection.
I wrote this one to explore a different side of my voice — something reflective, intimate, and a little unsettling in the best way. If you’re into near‑future fiction with emotional weight and a touch of ambiguity, this is the one to check out.
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Banyak orang percaya bahwa setiap manusia membawa “Gunung Everest”-nya sendiri—tantangan terdalam dan paling personal dalam hidup. Ia tidak selalu berbentuk pencapaian besar yang bisa dipamerkan pada dunia. Kadang, gunung itu hadir dalam wujud luka lama yang belum sembuh, rasa takut yang diam-diam membatasi langkah, mimpi yang terus tertunda, atau proses panjang untuk berdamai dengan diri sendiri.
Gunung itu tidak terlihat. Tidak bisa difoto. Tidak bisa diukur ketinggiannya. Tetapi keberadaannya sering kali terasa paling berat.
Untuk menaklukkan Everest dalam diri, kita membutuhkan ketenangan sebagai fondasi. Ketenangan untuk berhenti sejenak, mendengarkan isi hati, dan memahami apa yang sebenarnya sedang kita perjuangkan. Bukan ketenangan karena hidup tanpa masalah, melainkan ketenangan yang lahir dari keberanian menerima kenyataan.
Dari sana, tumbuh kekuatan dari dalam. Kekuatan yang tidak selalu berteriak lantang, tetapi perlahan menguatkan. Ia terbentuk dari kegagalan, air mata, doa-doa yang dipanjatkan dalam diam, dan keputusan kecil untuk tidak menyerah meski lelah. Kekuatan ini bukan tentang menjadi sempurna, melainkan tentang terus melangkah meski takut.
Namun, tidak ada pendakian yang benar-benar dilakukan sendirian. Di sepanjang perjalanan, kita membutuhkan orang-orang terdekat sebagai “basecamp”—tempat pulang ketika hati letih, tempat berbagi cerita tanpa takut dihakimi, tempat mengisi ulang keberanian. Kehadiran mereka menjadi pengingat bahwa kita tidak sedang berjalan sendirian di jalur yang panjang ini.
Pendakian ini tidak pernah mudah. Ada hari-hari ketika langkah terasa ringan, ada pula hari-hari ketika satu langkah pun terasa berat. Ada badai yang datang tanpa peringatan, ada jeda yang terasa seperti kemunduran, ada momen ketika kita mempertanyakan semuanya. Namun, justru dalam proses itulah kita ditempa, dipelajari, dan dibentuk menjadi pribadi yang lebih kuat dan lebih utuh.
Hingga suatu hari, tanpa kita sadari, kita berdiri di puncak versi kita sendiri. Bukan puncak yang selalu terlihat hebat di mata orang lain, tetapi puncak yang penuh makna bagi hati kita. Di sanalah kita menyadari bahwa gunung terbesar yang berhasil kita taklukkan bukanlah rintangan di luar sana, melainkan diri kita sendiri.
Dan dalam keheningan di puncak itu, kita menemukan sesuatu yang selama ini kita cari: kedamaian.
“Pada akhirnya, rindu bukan tentang memiliki kembali, melainkan tentang menerima bahwa pernah ada yang begitu berarti.”
Menahan rindu ternyata bukan sekadar tentang belajar melupakan, tetapi tentang berdamai dengan ingatan-ingatan yang pernah hidup begitu nyata di dalam hati, tentang menerima bahwa ada seseorang yang pernah menjadi tempat paling nyaman untuk pulang, tempat paling aman untuk berbagi cerita, lalu perlahan berubah menjadi nama yang hanya bisa disebut dalam doa dan diam.
Aku menyimpan begitu banyak potongan kisah yang tidak pernah benar-benar selesai: percakapan yang terhenti tanpa penjelasan, janji yang pernah terdengar meyakinkan namun akhirnya menguap bersama waktu, tawa yang dulu terasa hangat kini hanya menjadi gema dalam ingatan, serta harapan yang tumbuh terlalu tinggi hingga jatuh dan meninggalkan luka yang panjang. Di hadapan dunia, aku belajar memakai topeng ketegaran, tersenyum seolah tidak ada yang patah, berjalan seperti tidak pernah kehilangan, menjalani hari dengan ritme yang tampak normal, padahal di dalam dada, ada rindu yang terus mencari bentuk, ada rasa yang belum menemukan kata penutup, ada bagian diriku yang masih tertinggal di masa lalu, duduk diam sambil menunggu sesuatu yang tidak akan kembali.
Rindu itu tidak lagi berwujud keinginan untuk bertemu atau permintaan untuk mengulang cerita, melainkan berubah menjadi kesadaran bahwa aku pernah mencinta tanpa ragu, pernah percaya tanpa syarat, pernah menyerahkan hati tanpa menghitung risiko, dan keberanian itu, meski berakhir dengan luka, tetap layak dihargai. Kisah yang terluka panjang ini perlahan mengajarkanku bahwa kehilangan bukan selalu tanda kegagalan, melainkan bagian dari proses pendewasaan, bahwa patah bukan akhir dari segalanya, melainkan awal dari cara mencintai diri sendiri dengan lebih utuh, lebih jujur, dan lebih penuh kasih.
Dari luka-luka yang tersisa, aku belajar melepaskan tanpa membenci, mengikhlaskan tanpa menghapus kenangan, mengenang tanpa terjebak dalam penyesalan, serta menerima bahwa tidak semua yang kita doakan akan tinggal, tidak semua yang kita perjuangkan akan menetap.
Kini, aku menahan rindu dengan cara yang lebih lembut dan bijaksana, membiarkannya hadir tanpa menguasai, mengingat tanpa melumpuhkan, merindukan tanpa kehilangan arah, menjadikannya bagian dari perjalanan hidup, bukan sebagai beban yang memberatkan langkah, melainkan sebagai bukti bahwa hatiku pernah tumbuh, pernah hidup, pernah mencinta dengan sepenuh keberanian, dan meski sempat hancur, ia tetap memilih untuk bangkit, perlahan, setahap demi setahap, dengan caranya sendiri, menuju versi diri yang lebih kuat, lebih tenang, dan lebih damai.
I have not written much for this blog, but I promised I would write more to myself this year. I found myself stuck in a predicament I didn’t know how to carry alone, and more troubling still, I couldn’t find people who had carried it before me. When I came up short, I decided to write — and maybe someone who’s where I am will find it, and we can share in it together.
February 14th was looming. As a single woman, I felt that familiar societal dread — but something in me stirred. I would not be at home, wine-drunk and miserable. Self-pity be damned, at least for today.
I had already made a dentist appointment — a Saturday, perfect for my schedule — something practical to fill the time. And then I thought: my dentist is downtown. I’ll be my own lover for the day.
I needed something to do with myself, so I returned to an old love. I searched for a good book — something to bear witness to instead of being trapped with my own dizzying thoughts. I needed a crutch, something to have and to hold while I bambi-legged my way through the day alone.
I admit I am no longer used to doing things on my own. I have lost confidence in a thousand small ways. I would tell myself, “That looks fun,” and then wait for someone to accompany me. When they couldn’t, I resigned myself to not going at all.
Then, one beautiful summer day, I felt the chill of winter coming — yes, winter, not fall.
I decided to catch the last dredges of warmth and go to the beach by myself. It felt like resistance. My first step into it.
While gathering my things, I found a book tucked under a pile of clothes on the stairs: Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway. Serendipity at its finest. If you find yourself living with fear, I offer you this kindness.
I was lost — and my fear was that I would never be found.
The question haunted me, and maybe it haunts you too: Who am I?
That became my resolution for the new year: find yourself through the fear. Do things with yourself, for yourself — especially when you are afraid to do them.
Don’t hate me, reader, but I typed into ChatGPT asking for a plan for my big date, and a book recommendation based on others I’d loved. That’s how I found The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.
At first, I was put off by the title. What the actual fuck is a potato peel pie, and what does it have to do with a literary society? But like Sam-I-Am, I told myself to try it. Maybe I’d like it.
I had planned a full day, but after the dentist I realized my face was so numb I couldn’t feel my eyebrow. The fancy tea and baked goods would have to wait — my half-dead tongue deserved mercy.
A part of me said to pack it in and go home. At least I’d fixed my teeth. At least I’d bought the book. But a quiet, insistent voice told me to stay.
I ended up by the ocean, eating lunch — something I’d been too nervous to do alone the summer before. Back then, I felt every imagined eye on me. Not now.
I was resolute in my choices. I believe that when you are in alignment, the world offers signs encouraging you forward. Mine came in the form of a hungry gull.
He wasn’t one of the small white ones. This was a seafaring bird — not to be trifled with. Anything that can traverse the sea with nothing more than wings and flipper-like feet has more grit than I do. What I felt wasn’t fear so much as respect.
He made himself small beside me, staring expectantly at my lunch. I felt bad — mac and cheese can’t be good for seagulls. The thought turned into writing, as it often does, and I begged myself to remember it:
Seagull, I am sad that I have nothing to give you and I’m sure you’re sad there is nothing to get, but you sit here with me anyway. I try to explain, like you could understand, and from the way your head tilts, I think you do. The wind picks up, and you are gone with it.
I realized I was not alone in the world — connection could be made, even with a hungry gull. Then I opened my book.
This is where I met Juliet. If you read it, you’ll meet her too — and you’ll find yourself in her letters as I did.
I forgot what a good book does for the soul. I felt less alone than I had in a long time. Acceptance and grace — things I’d been forcing myself toward through mud and uncertainty — arrived quietly instead.
A great melancholy that had anchored itself to my soul lifted.
Juliet longs to be seen for who she is. She quarrels with herself, and I laughed, because 1946 or 2026, it doesn’t matter — fears are still fears, insecurity still lives in us all. She looks at the world the way I do, and in the turning of the universe, she finds her life. Or rather, her life finds her.
Even after all the darkness they had endured, something bright came after. I believe it has come for me, too.
The mournfulness I carried days before is hard to find now — not gone forever, but softened. Let us not pretend the skies will never grey again. But for now, the clouds have parted, and the warmth of summer finds me in the middle of winter. I hope it finds you too.
I was only 28, staring down a quarter-life crisis, convinced my life was already over. But as Juliet reminds us, it is only beginning.
I spent the whole day with myself, and I loved it.
The day didn’t go to plan. I ended up in a smoke shop, sitting on a couch, content to exist in the world. Later, I found myself at a strip club with my friend — she works there — and one of her coworkers asked if I wanted a private dance. I had never had one before.
Why? I was scared to ask. Scared to do it.
And reader — I did that thing.
It was an experience I wouldn’t trade for the world.
I owe thanks to The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society for giving me back to myself, even if only for a moment. It taught me that I am not stuck, and that I deserve to be seen — quietly.
I am not an intruder in this world. I am a witness to it. And so are you.
Being lost is nothing to fear — it means there is something waiting to be found.
Yours truly,
ad astra per aspera
P.S. This day was a small moment of grace in the storm of uncertainty I am still weathering. That is enough for now.
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Setiap hari adalah proses mendidik diri agar bertumbuh menjadi versi yang lebih baik.
Bukan dengan tuntutan yang keras, melainkan melalui kesadaran yang lembut dan jujur.
Sebagaimana kita menyapa orang lain dengan perhatian, diri sendiri pun layak diajak berbicara. Ia perlu didengarkan saat letih, dirayakan ketika bahagia, dipeluk ketika sedih, lalu ditemani dengan sabar untuk memahami cara menghadapi hidup yang terus bergerak.
Dalam perjalanan ini, penting bagi kita untuk benar-benar mengenal diri sendiri. Mengenali batas, menerima kekurangan, dan menghargai setiap usaha kecil yang sering kali luput dari perhatian. Bertumbuh bukan tentang menjadi sempurna, melainkan tentang hadir sepenuhnya dalam proses.
Semoga kita senantiasa mengisi hati dengan prasangka yang baik, menumbuhkan harapan yang jernih, serta menjaga tekad yang tenang namun kuat untuk terus melangkah. Bertumbuh pelan-pelan, tanpa tergesa, tanpa kehilangan diri.
Karena pada akhirnya, perjalanan menuju diri yang lebih utuh dimulai dari keberanian untuk memahami dan menerima diri sendiri.
"The journey of self-growth begins with understanding and embracing yourself."
Not because of the to-do list. Not because of the hustle waiting on Monday. But because of the pause. The breath. The quiet decision to begin again—with intention.
This week, I'm not chasing momentum. I'm choosing it.
→ To move with clarity
→ To create with care
→ To lead with presence, not pressure
Let this be the week we honor the quiet wins. The kind of progress that doesn't need applause to be honest. The kind that feels like alignment.
✨ What's one intention you're carrying into the week?