Dialah Pertiwi. Ia punya kebanggaan, ia punya prestasi, ia punya jati diri, dan ia percaya generasi mudanya akan menaklukan dunia. - Biarlah api menyala lebih lama lagi, seperti harapan dan keinginannya yang selalu bertahan lebih lama dibanding orang lain. Karena ia adalah Indonesia Pusaka.

"Ganesha, kalau sudah besar, kamu mau jadi apa?" Ganesha bingung, kemarin gurunya juga menanyakan hal yang sama. Apa memang orang dewasa suka menanyakan hal itu? Kemarin Ganesha menjawab ingin jadi presiden, karena presiden fotonya selalu dipajang di ruang kelas. Gurunya tertawa. Dia bilang kalau jadi presiden juga harus memerintah negara, mengatur supaya masyarakatnya aman dan sejahtera. Ganesha jadi ragu, dia tidak tahu caranya memerintah negara, mana bisa ia jadi presiden. Hari ini, dengan pertanyaan yang sama, Ganesha berpikir lebih keras. Mau jadi apa kalau sudah besar nanti? "Dadi polisi?" Ganesha suka main tembak-tembakan. Polisi bebas main tembak-tembakan setiap hari. "Jadi polisi, Le?" tanya ayahnya, mata pria itu berkedut, bibirnya membentuk senyum simpul. "Iya. Polisi." [cover by peachspit]

[note : dilarang membagikan atau merepost cerita saya di menfess base twitter.] connected [ kuh-nek-tid ]: having a connection Alfian Djanuar Nandiardji is my first love. He is the only person I wish I could pass the future with. It used to be like that. Without knowing anything, I thought everything is fine. I will have my own perfect life soon... Until that night changed everything. "Maaf, sebenarnya rasa itu sudah lama nggak ada lagi, Na." I believe that I have laid my heart on a man who deserves it. But not with that all of the lies and what he had hidden behind me--behind the things that we called as a 'relationship'--when I have to admit that for all these years I'm just the extra person in his life. And then, it happened again, without realizing anything I have found someone... from my random lunch invitation. "Until he's gone... On the day when people told me that he's not here anymore... they don't know... for both of us, deep down in our hearts, we're both know..." ... that we're still connected."