Sunday, December 23, 2012

Kegemaran Sama.


Bila orang kata dalam hidup, menjalinkan hubungan tidak perlu sama semua benda, ada benarnya. Bukankah manusia tidak semestinya sama? Tetapi, ada kalanya, perlu juga ada benda yang serupa - supaya ada benda yang kita boleh perkatakan, berbual kerana ada kalanya itu adalah titik persamaan antara kita dan dia.

Beli buku.
Baca buku.
Sambil berbual isi buku.
Buat ulasan buku.

Hantar pesanan emel senarai buku.
Berpuluh ribu kilometer masih bincang buku.
Beratus kilometer, angkat telefon tanya buku.
Saling tak mahu ada sama buku.

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Selain daripada minum kopi, rupanya kami juga sukakan buku. Heh!

Buat Kopi :

“You should date a girl who reads.
Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes, who has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.

Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag. She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she has found the book she wants. You see that weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a secondhand book shop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow and worn.

She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author’s making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book.

Buy her another cup of coffee.

Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce’s Ulysses she’s just saying that to sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or she would like to be Alice.

It’s easy to date a girl who reads. Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas, for anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry and in song. Give her Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her know that you understand that words are love. Understand that she knows the difference between books and reality but by god, she’s going to try to make her life a little like her favorite book. It will never be your fault if she does.

She has to give it a shot somehow.

Lie to her. If she understands syntax, she will understand your need to lie. Behind words are other things: motivation, value, nuance, dialogue. It will not be the end of the world.

Fail her. Because a girl who reads knows that failure always leads up to the climax. Because girls who read understand that all things must come to end, but that you can always write a sequel. That you can begin again and again and still be the hero. That life is meant to have a villain or two.

Why be frightened of everything that you are not? Girls who read understand that people, like characters, develop. Except in the Twilight series.

If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are.

You will propose on a hot air balloon. Or during a rock concert. Or very casually next time she’s sick. Over Skype.

You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart hasn’t burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.

Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.

Or better yet, date a girl who writes.”
― Rosemarie Urquico

Tapi Kopi, awak patut kahwin sahaja dengan perempuan begitu.
Ya, saya rasalah.


14 comments:

anith chan said...

Setinggi mana perbezaan antara satu pasangan nie. Akan da jugak satu persamaan yg akan dikongsi sampai tiada noktah penghujung.. Cth : dia suka mkn western food, awak suka makanan kg. But both of u can get along together. Sebab da nya satu persamaan tuh. Prireless. @anithshasha

anith chan said...

Setinggi mana perbezaan antara satu pasangan nie. Akan da jugak satu persamaan yg akan dikongsi sampai tiada noktah penghujung.. Cth : dia suka mkn western food, awak suka makanan kg. But both of u can get along together. Sebab da nya satu persamaan tuh. Prireless. @anithshasha

♛ LORD ZARA 札拉 ♛ said...

Hahaha.

Kami tak kisah kalau tak makan pun.
Wee haa!

misz aisya said...

eh, awak suka tu jugak? sy ponnnn..

biasenye, itu titik awal sesebuah hubungan. :)

M. Faiz Syahmi said...

Aku dengan Puspawangi ada banyak persamaannya. Banyak maksud aku, 80% persamaan.

Siapa cakap banyak persamaan bawa kebosanan?

Tipulah!

♛ LORD ZARA 札拉 ♛ said...

Hahahaha.
Tak semestinya.
Tapi mungkin juga.

:)

♛ LORD ZARA 札拉 ♛ said...

Siapa yang cakap camtu?
Tipulah!

Lagi banyak persamaan, lagi banyak benda yang boleh diperkatakan. Lagi banyak benda yang boleh dikongsi.

:)

fieq said...

banyak persamaan ada orang cakap bosan...banyak perbezaan pun orang cakap bosan...
macam mana tuh?hehehehe

milah said...

Sukalah entri kali ni, tak tahu kenapa, memikat hati :)
Ada terfikir tentang ni beberapa hari lalu, tentang persamaan dan perbezaan, sebab selalu orang claimed yang perbezaan itu melengkapi, tapi kalau banyak persamaan pun apa salahnya kan? :D
Haa, lagi satu,
sis, boleh share font yang sis pakai ni apa? Tq. :)

♛ LORD ZARA 札拉 ♛ said...

Manusia ni memang caca marba.
Hahaha :D

♛ LORD ZARA 札拉 ♛ said...

Tak pasti sebab guna free template. Belasah.
Hahaha.

shandye. said...

perempuan/lelaki bimbo tak membaca is a major turn off tahu tak?

aku jelak duduk semeja, berkongsi dua cangkir kopi panas terlebih cas dan buka mulut untuk tanya, "eh, buku baru (isi nama penulis) itu bagus tak?" dan reaksi dia hanya jungkit bahu dan cakap dia tidak kenal.

rasa mahu simbah kopi panas terlebih cas itu dan keluarkan 1Q84 saya dari tas tangan dan sambung baca.

sungguh!

♛ LORD ZARA 札拉 ♛ said...

Samalah!

Menyampah yang amat. Nasib baik Kopi orangnya banyak membaca, bolehlah berbual tentang buku, review buku ke. Isk.

Mrs Poyo said...

Aku dgn Incik Bachok pun tak sama langsung..tp kami boleh brkahwin dan tggal bersama-sama wlaupun baru dua bulan kawin..hahahahahhahah..