A NOT-SO-PERFECT-DAY

I really wanted to go home and finish my book after Sunday Service today, but I ended up spending my whole afternoon surveying and checking out unfinished studio apartment units, ruko, hotel’s rooms and halls in an area near Malioboro today while listening to my parents’ conversation with an old friend who last met my family twenty years ago.

On the top of that, I was wearing the wrong outfit (cause who would’ve predicted that we were going straight to this ‘pembangunan wilayah’ right after church, no time untuk ganti baju!) and there were unpleasant smells, dust, mites, holes and scratches everywhere. Plus this lady friend constantly talked about topics I honestly have no real interest nor expertise in (property management, agriculture, international trade, old memories she shared with my parents; memories and stories my sister and I know nothing about).

But then I started to accidentally spot beautiful little things here and there (shadows, plants, carpets), and our talks shifted from practical to intuitive ones (we switched from criticizing the imperfectness of the site to envisioning how the site will turn out in few years time), plus the more the lady spoke and interacted with me and my family, the more I felt some kind of warm, motherly, and familiar vibe from her I just couldn’t help to enjoy her company and today’s visit to this peculiar site.

Today could’ve turned out to be a not-so-perfect-day, yet reflecting on how things actually turned out, today’s meeting really does seem like a divine appointment.