#DearTomorrow by Maudy Ayunda

One of my most number one to-read-list book since so many many times ago has finally been fulfilled. I did try couple of times to order the books online but it was always out of stocks. This time, I finally got the chance to read it, special thanks goes to one of my friend who landed me the book. Finally, no more wait and imagine to touch and open the every page and absorbing everything written in the book. I finished reading the book just in one sit.

I will not give it back just yet, I still wanted to read it all through once more, or two or three, to properly grasp the ideas explained by the one and only Maudy Ayunda. As you guys probably can tell by the post feed on the book’s official instagram account, the books is not full of words, but images. It is beautifully arranged that it will put away such potential of making the readers bored with long sentence or paragraph. Though, I’m okay with full words, but this half book filled with illustration is kind of helping the readers to enjoy the book. Maudy is talking about several issues here in the book, categorized into four beautiful chapters.

The first chapter is about how to not being yourself nor finding yourself but more like get to know yourself. Maudy proposed her redefinition of self that seems to be one particular very important topic. We are the experiences we have been going through, we are all the things we have learned, we are so many things at once. That is why, before chapter one, she reintroduced herself, not as what we know her as what she had been famous for, but for what she wanted to be known for, she calls herself as a story teller.

In the next chapter, she talks about the dream, how to be a dreamer 101 sort of discussion. She provided the tips and the music playlist and the concept of success and accepting failures and forgiving ourselves in the lowest part of our life. I personally was a dreamer back in the day in my high school years, but not anymore, I call them plans now. My plans are not only one and keep changing every now and then, you know, the reality hurts sometimes, so we need a lot of adjustment. But, hey, I am okay now. Fight for your dream if you have one, okay? promise me!

After that, she will bring us to her perspectives about l-o-v-e. In the previous chapter, we were given the music playlist for dreamers, now we were awarded long list of brokenhearted songs to listen to, yeah I will definitely check them out later. What if felt like to love or something like that, my one simple line was when she said that do not forget to love yourselves first. Yes, I still try my best to love myself, I am trying really hard. Because how can I love other human while I'm still very much hate myself, right?

The last one is about the mindset. There are big amount of quotes I found so fascinating in this part. How do we know which are right or wrong and good or bad. They are all simple words yet resonate and relate to me in so many level possible. How we see others, how we think others might see us. Then, in the very few of the last pages she talked about herself being a feminist, that I know, here in Indonesia, a woman declaring she believed in such concept will be likely labeled as against the system or whatever. One thing for sure, being equal does not mean being the same at all. And, no, women do not want to rule the world or something like that, nothing wrong about it.

In conclusion, the book is beautiful. Other than because we got special photo shoots of Maudy Ayunda in it, the messages she tries to deliver is powerful but at the same time feels very soft and comfortable. Now, let’s talk a little bit of how I met Maudy ayunda, not like in real person, but when I got to know there is somebody that as beautiful not only the looks but also the brain. I saw her first on Perahu Kertas movie I guess, and I start falling in love with this soul ever since that moment.

I listen to her music and then following her latest activities and the amazing story how she is not only an actress or singer but also taking a bachelor degree in Oxford and recently got accepted in Harvard and Stanford but she prefers Stanford. Yes, she might not the only celebrity went school abroad, but for me personally, she is the most authentic and original. I and so many other of her fans will always continue looking up to her as an inspiration, simply because she is that awesome. Hopefully, some of you who read this can read the book sometimes, the last time I checked, some of its first pages are free to read as sample before buy the ebook.