Letter to My Great Grandfather

Thaykong, I call to you every day in my heart. For some reason, I can only prostrate myself before you each day, even though I realize and firmly believe that you have been reborn and that I know where you are now. Yet I cannot explain this to you, for it is so difficult for me to tell you or prove it. I simply trust that one day, you will know the truth.

‎It is hard for me to speak words to you; I can only weep whenever I think of you. For some inexplicable reason, my inner self feels such profound sorrow and pain, only tears stream down my cheeks. Every time I prostrate myself in prayer, I can only say: If only you knew how much sadness and suffering fill my life. If only you could hear the deepest grief in my heart. How the tears of anguish flow in our family now, with siblings who are no longer harmonious, shattered and in ruins. Our family's economy lies in ruins, destroyed by a selfish and greedy leader who has wrecked every structure of our family life. My sacrifices have been squandered by the deceit and lies of a man who is so hard to call "father," for his attitudes, words, behavior, and character have never deserved that title. If you were in my place now, how should I live my life? If I could beg the Almighty, perhaps only my death would bring relief from this endless pain. But I cannot even say that, for you taught me to live with awareness, always remembering you to remain steadfast and patient amid life's sufferings.

‎Thaykong, I can only pray that you hear this prayer from the depths of my heart. I hope you remain forever in my thoughts and heart. In our past life, you suffered for so long, waiting for me after I departed first at the young age of 24 or 25, having to fight and die as a soldier born in another place. Though I knew you as someone else, I believe your deepest soul and inner essence remain the same, the one I have awaited and longed for since my rebirth, even from the age of two, when I already knew you had waited and suffered for me for so long. Thank you for your sincerity, boundless love, and affection. May we meet again someday, whenever that may be, and I hope you are always happy and one day remember everything about me.

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‎Written by: Kepik Romantis / PVA  

‎January 09, 2026

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Wise Dialogue between Monkey and Lion Dec 20' 2025

While Lion sitting relax in the cave because is rainy season, a monkey come by to have a meeting chit chat talk : 

Monkey : Hey Lion, how was your day?

Lion : Well well a Wise Monkey come to visit a Lion, i think you have a very much good question to asking me right now, is in it?

Monkey : Ha ha, thats why everybody tells that you are the Wise Lion in this jungle. 

Lion : Then tell me, what's bothering you sudden?

Monkey : Nah, i just wonder to asking you. Do you believe there is a demon? 

Lion : That was a good question. If you are asking me, than well i say yes, because every creatures have two minds, good mind and bad mind, which is can be a demon in our mind. 

Monkey : So, it's mean that will be no neutral mind? 

Lion : Umm, about neutral mind, it's also good mind because that's mind also did not want to think badly so it's still good mind, right? 

Monkey : Yeah, but how can be someone always doing good can be born to be a demon to tempted all beings? 

Lion : This is very hard question to answered. Because noone wanted to be born as a demon. But in case to help all beings can succeed to reach their new level up for own spiritual level, sometimes their have to be tested or being tempted by demon. So what do you think monkey king is a bad demon? Or good demon?

Monkey : Ha ha ha, such a great answer. But some beings always blame the demons are bad that tempted beings to be greed, hatred and ignorance. 

Lion : Ha ha, don't think about it, it's because they don't realize their own mind created that bad and even evil mind. I think you know what i mean that, you see that nowadays the real demons no need to work hard especially tempted beings, because they already being tempted by their own bad and evil mind with each other beings, they already being fell down in their greed, hatred and ignorance. Nowadays the demons just work for tempted the high level beings that they already reach a good higher spiritual level only, some of the high spiritual classes, they always fell down because being tempted by their own Ego to know more for understanding the truth that starting to fight or debated to seek the acknowledgement winner. This why the demons likes to follow them fighting each other opinon until become complicated and confuse. I know You know well about this situations.

Monkey : Ha ha ha, i cannot agree more. 

Lion : I know you so well, do you want to tempted me also as a Lion king? 

Monkey : Ha ha ha. I suppossed i have to skip that only for you. 

Lion : Ha ha ha, don't be so naive, I know what you are thinking now. Everyday, all beings have their own chance to choose their own path, whether to choose to be a good or the opposite way to be a bad. It's their own decision to make their own future ways to go through next spiritual level. 

Monkey : Yeah, sometimes they fell down to the Hell, it's because they created their own bad future. They choose what they have to responsible for their own choices. It's why demon always being blamed by them. 

Lion : Naaah, don't think to much about it, they also blame me as a beast, that would make them suffered and being harmed. There will always be those who disbelieve, blame, and even hate. Because they never realize their own mistakes.

Monkey : Uuumm, yeaah, you right. It's why everyone called you a famous great lion king. Because you know the truth is never being mistake.

Lion : Ha ha ha. You're too good at overpraising me. Naaah, actually i am just a small creatures, even the humans can kills me easily. And can eat and using all my body and bones for their souvernirs. I'm just a hopeless creatures now, all my brothers are being cages to make a good funny atraction to entertain humans satisfaction. And You are luckier than me because many humans like you very much and worship you as a god, a Monkey King, even made you a very great statues and offerings for your glory and greatness. 

Monkey : Naaah, it's just long story buddy. 

They love to get caught up in fictional stories with gossip and legends from ancient societies. You are the truth hero in the jungle. Everyone knows that. Don't underestimate yourself. I still have to respect you as The King of the jungle.

Lion : Naah, okey okey, alright, alright enough then, you just make me bluss again. 

Monkey : Ha ha ha, what a nice day to have a great talked and chit chat with you. Hope you have a nice weekend. See you next time buddy.

Lion : Okey okey, get off now, and take away all your banana from my cave, because i did not eat that. Before i get starve then tried to eat you. Ha ha ha. Just kidding buddy. Enjoy your weekend too.

Picture source : Lion and Monkey with editing application

Written by : Kepik Romantis/PVA

The Dreamer

Maybe i was a dreamer, seeking for the story in my dream, so silly...

But sometimes we love to dream about beautiful things, being in love, miss for loving someone. Something that we want to be, or want to be with the one that we love. 

It is naturaly being human, missing someone, lossing and being hurt. 

Scared something that it is not been same like we want to be in real life.

And sometimes the bad dream come true that we cannot resist to run away.

After that we still want to be dreaming again and again. 

Something different, but i just believe it.

Don't know why but i believe in my small thiny little inside everyone heart have the same voice to be happy, just like a happy dream. It is why everyone always love to dream big successful and happiness.

Sometimes some of people said that it is just delusion or illusion in our mind, that we just fall into the temptation of lust and desire. But people love to dream, because when human have a dream good things, the mind full of positive energy, then believe every good things is possible to attain a good goals in life. So why we have to stop dreaming? If the dream is give us positive energy for mind and our soul, even healing the hurt painful beeing sickness. Just anyone maybe ever heard that this life is also just a dream, the truth about life is when you wake up when we are already died. Died is the truth, and life is just a dream. So we are all still dreaming right, then so why we have to stop dreaming? If all this life is also just a dream either. 

010922 written by : Kepik Romantis / PVA

Impian Burung Nuri

Suatu ketika, seekor burung Nuri bertemu dengan seekor burung Elang yang terbang luar biasa serta wibawanya juga dikagumi oleh banyak burung lainnya. Burung Nuri berharap dan bermimpi jika suatu ketika ingin terbang jauh dan bisa pergi ke manapun dia ingin seperti halnya sehebat Burung Elang. Tetapi Elang hanya tertawa dan menganggap burung Nuri hanya mengkhayal, karena tidaklah mungkin burung Nuri kecil itu mampu terbang sejauh dan setinggi Elang, gumam pikir Elang. 

Karena cibiran hinaan oleh semua burung yang tertawa-tawa mendengar keinginan dan impian Nuri, maka Nuri pun diam-diam pergi di saat gelap, melewati hutan belantara, berulangkali hampir terjebak pemangsa yakni serangan ular-ular ganas yang mengerikan. Untungnya Nuri masih punya karma baik, berkali-kali ditolong oleh hewan-hewan lainnya yakni Burung Hantu yang bijak, Burung Bangkai yang menakutkan tapi baik hati, Tupai yang riang, Tikus yang pemarah, Kelelawar yang lucu, Zebra yang rajin, Gajah yang sabar, Monyet yang nakal dan Harimau yang tangguh. 

Tetapi bukan berarti Nuri selalu berhasil, terkadang juga sering tertipu dan hampir celaka oleh Kelicikan Kelinci, Kejahatan Ular, Kecemburuan Kambing, Kesombongan Anjing, Kerakusan Srigala dan bahkan Katak yang culas dan kikir. 

Kesemuanya tidak terlepas dari bahaya, tetapi lagi-lagi Nuri tetap berusaha terus dan terus setiap kali kehilangan bulu-bulu sayapnya yang hampir dihancurkan Ular. Dia berusaha bertahan hingga hampir mati, dia percaya suatu ketika dia akan menjadi Elang. Keyakinannya yang tidak pernah putus itu membuat Raja Rimba Singa berhati Mulia pun luluh dan menolong Nuri dari bahaya, semua Ular pun kabur setelah melihat Singa, dan hewan-hewan sehutan tunduk oleh perintahnya. Dibawah asuhan Singa yang Mulia dan berjasa di seluruh hutan dan pegunungan, Nuri belajar menjadi kuat, tangguh dan terus melawan ketakutannya.

Setiap hari Nuri dibimbing untuk terbang terus lebih tinggi dan lebih jauh, hingga sampai sayap-sayap Nuri pun berubah bertransformasi menjadi seperti sayap Elang yang kuat dan tangguh. Saat itulah Nuri harus berpamitan dengan Singa dan semua sahabat-sahabat yang telah menolongnya, bahwa Nuri ingin menuntaskan cita-citanya yaitu terbang hingga ke Puncak Gunung Es Salju Tertinggi di dunia, dan menikmati masa-masa kebahagiaannya sebagai satu-satunya burung Nuri yang berhasil mematahkan kutukannya sebagai burung kecil lemah dan tidak mampu terbang jauh.

190822 Written by : Kepik Romantis / PVA

Picture Source:

https://agrozine.id/mengenal-burung-nuri-bayan-burung-paruh-bengkok-yang-cantik/amp/

https://gembiralokazoo.com/collection/nuri-bayan.html

Hati Murni

Bagaimana menjernihkan Hati?

Apakah menenangkan Hati cukup?

Jernih sebening air tanpa noda?

Sucikan Hati menjadi Bersih kembali.

Begitu banyak prasangka buruk,

Begitu banyak kesal, benci, dan iri.

Bahkan dari cinta bisa berubah rindu,

Dari rindu pun bisa menjadi murka.

Apalagi jangan menaruh angkara..

yang berlarut-larut menjadi dendam..

Maafkanlah dan belajar menghapusnya..

Relakan dan ikhlaskan melepaskannya..

Jikalau kita ingin mendapatkan cita-cita,

Pertahankanlah ilmu kesucian Hati..

Hanya dengan kejernihan kesucian Hati,

Semua doa harapan cita-cita terlaksana.

Ibarat kita berusaha menjadi baik,

Seperti berharap baju putih kembali..

Perlu usaha kerja keras dan itikad baik,

Bila kita belum berhasil juga..

Mungkin itu bukanlah yang terbaik untuk kita..

Hati yang jernih dan suci,

Akan terisi ilmu-ilmu kebajikan..

Senantiasa akan menuntut kita, 

ke jalan yang terbaik..

Bersabar, bertawakal dan berikhtiar..

Semua masalah dan persoalan hidup, pastilah kelak akan ada penyelesaian..

Berserah bukan berarti menyerah, tetapi adakalanya manusia terbatas akan segala-galanya. 

Kuncinya hanyalah menjaga Hati.

Satu-satunya jalan komunikasi kepada

Yang Maha Suci. 

Semoga kita dapat selalu menjadi manusia yang baik sebaik-baiknya manusia.

270722 written by : Kepik Romantis/PVA

Picture Source: www.freepik.com/premium-photo/white-heart-white-background-pure-heart-concept_16124550.htm

Berdamai Diri

Setiap manusia memiliki dua sisi kehidupan..

Sisi terang dan sisi gelapnya..

Pada saat menentukan sebuah keputusan hidup, seringkali, 

kedua sisi ini berbenturan karena perbedaan pemikiran.

Bagaimana mengendalikan kedamaian di alam pikiran dan hati ini?

Biasanya setiap kali berada di persimpangan jalan,

dalam menghadapi masalah hidup, selalu terjadi benturan,

antara sisi terang dan kegelapan.

Banyak yang takut terjatuh, karena jalan kegelapan itu berulang kembali.

tetapi ada juga yang dapat berjuang, untuk mengendalikan sisi kegelapan,

dengan menyeimbangkan batinnya,

dengan penerangan yang penuh kasih dan kehangatan.

Satu hal yang dapat dipelajari dari seorang anak yang belajar berjalan,

adalah kegigihannya si anak itu,

sekalipun terjatuh berkali-kali, 

tapi dia tidak menyerah dan bangkit kembali,

belajar lagi, berlatih lagi, dan mencoba lagi,

tanpa terpikir berputus asa..

si anak itu terus berlatih berjalan hingga,

akhirnya mampu berjalan sendiri dengan sebaik-baiknya.

Terkadang sisi gelap bukanlah hal yang buruk adanya,

semua kegelapan juga memberikan kesempatan, 

untuk menemukan cahaya terang diri kita.

Tanpa kegelapan, kita mungkin kesulitan 

menemukan cahaya terang di dalam diri kita sendiri.

Ikutin saja alurnya, lalu perlahan-lahan

mempelajari setiap gerak-geriknya bekerja..

Sehingga lama-kelamaan akan,

memahami dan mengerti bagaimana,

cara mengendalikannya.

250622 written by : Kepik Romantis / PVA 

Picture Source : tools4innerpeace.org/tag/yoga-with-impact/

  

Kebahagiaan Itu...???

Seringkali kita mencari-cari kebahagiaan,

dari satu tempat ke tempat yang lain.

Bahkan tidak jarang melarikan diri dari situasi dan kondisi yang tidak menyenangkan, hanya untuk mencari kesenangan semata.

Apakah kebahagiaan itu benar dicari?

Ataukah kebahagiaan itu harus diusahakan, dengan menciptakan kebahagiaan itu sendiri?

Semua pilihan itu, jawabannya hanya ada didalam diri manusia itu sendiri.

Bilamana sudah lelah mencari-cari dan tidak menemukannya.

Berarti kembali ke diri sendiri, sudahkah kita menciptakan kebahagiaan itu di dalam diri kita sendiri?

Tidak mengharapkan semuanya harus mengikuti sesuai keinginan kita. 

Karena terlalu banyak berharap, malah jadi semakin banyak kecewa.

Lebih baik menciptakan kebahagiaan daripada mengharapkan kebahagiaan.

Tidak dapat memaksakan kehendak hanya untuk kesenangan sesaat.

Bukankah yang diinginkan adalah kebahagiaan yang seutuhnya? 

Bukan yang sementara apalagi sesaat.

Tentunya kebahagiaan itu tidak akan mungkin tercapai bila hanya sekedar berharap dan berandai-andai. 

Tetapi perlu usaha bahkan pengorbanan besar untuk menciptakan kebahagian yang sejati seutuhnya yang bertahan hingga abadi selamanya.

Tidak cukup bermimpi dan berandai-andai, tetapi juga harus ada tekad, niat, usaha, kerja, bahkan pengorbanan demi kebahagiaan itu. 

Jadi apakah masih mau terus mencari-cari? 

Ataukah kebahagiaan itu diciptakan oleh seluruh kemampuan kita?

Pilihannya ada didalam diri sendiri.

Kebahagiaan dari kenyamanan, ketenangan, kerukunan, keharmonisan, keserasian, kesehatan, sukacita dan kedamaian. 

Pertanyaannya adalah "Dimanakah itu?" Ataukah "Ciptakanlah itu?"

210522Written by : Kepik Romantis/PVA

Picture Source : 

https://foreverconscious.com/4-ways-to-create-happiness

https://www.quotemaster.org/making+own+happiness