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Life is a million random occurrences happening at the same time all the time, and by another random factor, multiple random occurrences would collide with each other and create another random shit.

If you think about life like that, life gets easier.

But just because it's random, doesn't mean you can't try to maximize your odds.

When taking a freekick, training will make you better, but at the end of the day, there are other factors, mostly random. The wind, minutes of the freekick - the latter it is the more tired you are, and harder for you to maintain the form and technique necessary to take the freekick.

Control what you can control, don't drink and drive, text and drive, oral sex and drive, just drive.

Make sure your car/motorbike is on good health.

Follow the traffic rules.

Have a crush, hell, have a crush so so so hard you're okay not watching your Premier League chasing team to go with her - oh please don't laugh at me Lun.

Do your bits, because even after you make sure you do everything right, there are other factors: other people, and random shit.

But at least it won't be your fault.

The random shit, is what religious people called "His will", I called it "universe playing jokes on us"

Fyre

So I've been watching Fyre Festival documentary on Netflix and Hulu, and how stupid and pathetic the whole hype marketing is.

It's easier now to trigger that FOMO feeling, thanks to Instagram, you won't post the shitty part of your life, they'll call you attention seeker, post the good part of your life and only the good, it's fake, post boring shit, well, it's boring, and if you're not posting anything, well you're not existing.

But 90% of our life is boring, commuting to work is boring - and agonizing, for us Jakartans.

We need to embrace boring, living a life in search for constant high is not a good way to live.

But we can try to enjoy the boring part: setting up fire playlist for commute, or like me last Friday, just appreciating the fact that my bike works just right, the clutch felt good, the acceleration was there, I felt like Kamen Rider for whole ride, and the music was fire - watch Swing Kids by the way, 10/10 - and suddenly 30 minutes traffic wasn't so bad anymore.

I guess growing up as an outsider does have its virtue.