Adisa Manalu

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  • Facade

    Perhaps love is not what you were searching for Validation may be one Seeking when its convenient, not when it requires a commitment I said goodbye to you. Finally, I am walking toward my destination. To a real home. Not a facade. Not an endless airplane ride, no I was in for a one-way ticket,…

  • Hypothetically yes, theoretically (not) forever

    The famous Shakespeare stated, “Expectation is the root of all heartache,” yet too often, we build expectation without realizing it. The expected narrative is rooted in each subtle exchanges, somehow the expectation no longer centered around Another but rather, towards oneself. Time goes by and somehow, I find myself sitting, wishing, waiting for the hypotheticals…

  • Best Tried and Devoured 2020

    Sooo to begin with, I had the so-called writer’s block for the past few months, with various attempts to combat it by writing drafts that were left untouched. Well, not today I thought. I decided to just go with the flow while writing this one as the last few entries have been nothing but a…

  • More Than Meets the Eye

    “Your deepest desire,” he observes, “is the one manifested by your daily life and habits.” This is because our action—our doing—bubbles up from our loves, which, as we’ve observed, are habits we’ve acquired through the practices we’re immersed in. That means the formation of my loves and desires can be happening “under the hood” of…

  • On Friendship

    Imperfect? To the utmost, Yet vulnerable Is never a mere empty jargon when we are together Too loud, as we laughed Never still, as one weeps

  • Tentang Waktu

    Dalam bahasa Yunani, definisi kata ‘waktu’ bisa terbagi menjadi dua makna yang berbeda, yaitu ‘kairos’ dan ‘kronos’. Kairos berbicara tentang periode tertentu, kalau udah lewat ya gabisa terulang lagi. Sedangkan kronos itu ya arti waktu kayak biasa (as it is) dalam bentuk jam, menit, detik- either its for a short or long period of time.…

  • living, in times of corona

    Never thought there would be a sequel to the previous post I wrote, but I think it might be cool to make one. Here it is, a blog post series about things I learned (or attempted to) during a pandemic such as this one. Not long ago, I heard someone quoted Heraclitus, a Greek philosopher…

  • first entry

    Hey everyone! I’m Adisa. Welcome to my first post ever, which is basically a longer version of what I have written here. Growing up, I am always a lover of words, people, and… food. A little bit about me, I am a 20 something-year-old, born and raised in the hustle-bustle of Jakarta, Indonesia. Later in…

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