seni itu sesuatu yang kecil dan halus,
dekat dengan kebaikan.
Waktu kamu tak lagi bisa melihat hal-hal kecil,
hitung langkahmu.
Lihat seberapa jauh kamu berjarak dengan kebaikan …
(quoted from sundea's lines -Myra Fathira-)
There is a woman who loves ice cream so much. Her fondness of ice cream drives her to taste many different flavors of it from shop to shop. She refuses to attach to particular shop for she believes that no matter how good the shop in making a delicious one, it will just be ordinary and typical someday. Thus, she prefers to stop in one shop and after tasting the flavor then she finds another shop to taste a new one. She has ever tasted from the delicious to the bland kind of ice cream, she enjoys it all as an adventurous ‘exploration’.
One day after tasting so many flavors from one shop to another shop, she is accidentally invited to a house which served her a delightful ice cream she ever tastes. She thought, like many other delicious ice cream, she will just taste it once and find another ice cream that can compete this taste. Beyond her expectation, she becomes addicted to this ice cream that could only she have by visiting this house. This peculiar habit continues and she begins to break her rule in not tasting the same ice cream from the same place twice. What makes her taste this ice cream again and again is because the ice cream can accompany her in both discouraging and pleasing time. From this ice cream, she learns that tasting ice cream is not only about the delicious flavor or marvelous shape of it. More than that, she can have it to accompany her through certain kind of emotions. She can enjoy either her blue or lovely day accompanied by a cup of ice cream, this same delightful ice cream. Realizing this, she then desires to buy it everyday to accompany her through various emotions she has. Unfortunately, she cannot have this ice cream as she wants for the ice cream is not for sale since she gets it from a house not a shop. To have this ice cream, she has to wait until the owner of this house invites her, or she tries hard to find a way to be invited.
She finds so many ways to get into the house so the owner of the house serves her this ice cream. The more she tastes the ice cream the more she wants it, but she finds it hard since she cannot buy it … the ice cream is a home-made ice . It is possessed by the owner of the house.
One day she visits the house to have the ice creams that she falls in love with. She gets startled when she finds no one there and she is informed that the owner moves to another country. What makes her upset is she could not have this delightful ice cream anymore. Since then no matter delicious the ice cream she buys, the taste is just the same for her; plain. If only she could make that kind of ice cream by herself, but she is just too inexperienced to make one. The ice cream itself is too excellent to be made. She is also too afraid to ask the owner of the house to give this recipe of the ice cream to her. Once she has ever tried to reach the owner of the house to have the ice cream. It is useless, the place where the owner lives now is too far. She also believes that the owner will mind if she often comes to their house only to have this ice cream. Now she is broken, the ice cream teach her how it feels. Sadly, the ice cream cannot accompany her through it. Since then all delicious ice creams just taste the same for her; plain. -Myra Fathira-
