SWORDS

“I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth, then I ask myself the same question .” - Harun Yahya I showed my father the quote above about seven years ago then told him that the quote has really motivated me. I wanted not to be like those birds, I wanted to go away, experience and learn lots of things and this and that and everything. My dad smiled and said that maybe it wasn't supposed to be understood that way, maybe the quote wanted to tell us that you should stay. The birds were just some anecdote to tell us that nature wants us to stay. I didn't understand, or maybe I didn't want to. My wings were too big, they wanted to spread. "Rantau" is one of the old words in Bahasa Indonesia that I can't find in other languages and thus explains not only the activity that almost only the Indonesians do, but also the Indonesian culture itself. This word means leaving your home with the purpose to have a bett...

Who invented the idea to write names on the coffee cups you order? This idea is the most terrible idea one could have ever invented, thought a 27 years old white man named Sean White. Sean couldn't spell names right, except his and his mother's name. There was a gap in his developing phase which wasn't optimally supported, which plays a role in his lack of intelligence in spelling names or words at all. Sean was never good at languages. He speaks his mother language fluently, but he doesn't write. Writing is the worst. Sean can't spell right. He even spells "spell" with one L. That would be tolerable for some kid, but Sean isn't some kid. He has finished school, although not as the best, but he has finished school. He doesn't go to college, because he ruined the motivation letter with a lot of misspelled words. Instead of an acceptance letter, he got a recommendation letter to apply to some language school. He ended up working in a cafe, which is...