Berkat kebaikan seorang teman, saya bisa mendapatkan buku Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love.
Saat membaca halaman yang berisi pujian atas buku itu, saya menemukan kata yang membuat saya tertarik. Kata itu adalah: funny, humor, laugh � out � loud humor.
Bagaimana sebuah buku yang ditulis oleh seorang yang menanggung kesedihan bisa berisi rangkaian kata � kata yang akan membuat kita tertawa?
Namun, ternyata memang demikian. Di halaman 33, ketika bertemu Ketut Liyer, Elizabeth menulis berikut:
Our yoga teacher had told us in advance that we could each bring one question or problem to the medicine man, and he would try to help us with our troubles. I�d been thinking for days of what to ask him. My initial ideas were so lame. Will you make my husband give me a divorce? Will you make David be sexually attracted to me again? I was rightly ashamed of myself for these thoughts: who travels all the way around the world to meet an ancient medicine man in Indonesia, only to ask him to intercede in boy trouble?
Ha ha ha ha. Tampaknya penderitaan batin malah membuat Elizabeth menjadi lucu.
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