By: Isma Hadiatmaja
“You will die -maybe not today, but later, you eventually will- but if you write, your soul will last forever.”
If we put it into metaphors, motivation to do something is like a motorcycle that needs a starter to run the engine; the quote above works as that engine, the energy that ignites my motivation to write. As human we probably has already got the idea that we aren’t mean to live forever, that we’re gonna die and this world is temporary anyway, we will be no more than bones buried inside the grave after we dead. I’m sure we don’t fancy the idea of being left and forgotten from people’s memories. We’d like to live to be remembered, to be slipped in people’s mind, stay in their mind’s eyes. And the only thing that keeps us breathing over our dead bodies, is writing.
