Please, lead me away to
Cinangka, Abadi’s grocery. Would you?
“Okay,
take on my bike and we go right now, dude”, said a man.
“Here
we go”, said Jony with pleasure.
We
have been on the location, dude.
“Thank
you sir and this is the cost for my favorite man who always be loyal to wait me
in front of his Motorcycle every
my coming home,” Jony accosted. He is so friendly to
everyone whom he meets, especially in his village.
First
he arrived in home, he always go to his parents’ grocery before coming in home,
it is intended for greeting. His parents more often stay in the grocery than in
home, because they are a merchant. The grocery is near their home.
There
is somebody wanted to buy five boxes of Indomie
and Kapal Api, and take them in the
back of stockroom, shouted Mrs. Bachtiar
to Iyan.
“I
copy mom, I’ll be back in two minutes with picking up them so fast” said Iyan
loudly with a joke while being smoking a cigarette and drinking a last drop of
coffee. He picked up the orders very late more than in two minutes
“Are
you okay? This is order, and I’ll stop you smoking cigarette if you are slow” said
Mrs. Bachtiar
“Yes
mom, I am okay and I still keep my smile even these unfriendly things attach me” Walking with his
burden feet and panic expression.
When
iyan walked with his panic face, he looked Jony stood with laughing at him
beside an iceboox, he just had awared of Jony’s appearance. So Jony give him a
big hug because he is happy that Jony worked in Mrs’s Bachtiar’s grocery, not
being unemployment again after graduating from his senior high school. Iyan
himself is so close with Jony. They had been friend since they were children
till now.
Iyan
has a sad childhood with his family. His parents get divorce when he was a
young child. Actually Iyan’s childhood is only grown up with his mother even it
is most terrible for his own life.
Iyan
never wants to stay for long at home. He feels like If he was at home, he just
gets a hostility because of his abhorance toward his father who has asked his
mother responsible of family’s burden alone. But, his dislikeness to the family
because he really loves his mother too much. Therefor Mrs. Bachtiar has
regarded him as her own son, he is so close with Jony’s family.
“Iyan,
this is time to close the grocary” said Mrs. Bachtiar. Iyan Immadiately closed
the grocary, helped by Jony.
After
Isya Praying, Jony and Iyan met in Warung
Mak Entin, with an old habit, drinking a cup of cofee for togerther with
telling eachother stories. Jony called it as a ritual in the village with his
friends to share informations about what’s heppening in the village. Actually,
the ritual is often held with Iyan and Hafidz. The ritual has been initiated
since they sit in senior high school.
“How
is your study in university?” suddenly asked Iyan.
“my
study?, yup, certainly I am still in doing the research, and it is so boring
and really surfeited for me.” Said Iyan clearly. Jony asked Hafidz to Iyan
“anyway where is Hafidz?, actually such this time he has appeared and came to
this place”. Jony tried to phone Hafidz but before it worked, Hafidz came with
a depressed face and sit silently with us.
“what
happened with you, hafidz?” asked Iyan.
Hafidz
replied “no, there is no matters, maybe I am just tired after working in Posko
corporation”
“your
eyes can lie to o me, and I don’t see the truth on your face” Jony tried to
find out the main problems. “what wrong
with you, Hafidz?” asked Jony.
“okay,I
will tell you the truth about me, actually I am really confused with my
position as a youngest son in my family” said Hafidz.
“what
are you confused of?” asked Iyan.
“I
try to help my family’s economy to increase my parents’s burden. I have given
the apllication to all coorporations in Cilegon and Serang but it doesn’t work
out. Certainly, I decide to keep helping my father in his repairshop and
sometime I work in Hawai hotel and Posko Corporation project as a project
worker. However,sometime I want to look for the job in another regions. Unfotunately my parents
don’t let me to do my intention for work. What must I do if you in my
position?, I try to help my parents and look for new experiences , but they
don’t support me.” Hafidz explained clearly.
“So,
how about your story, Iyan” asked Jony.
“my
mother is not in home again for two years. She decide to become a foreign
worker in Saudi. And I have to survive for my own self and my little brother”
replaid Iyan.
“I
observe this village has changed, not like really our village as we live in a
strange place. I recoganize the farmer is not rich of his rice again, the
childeren don’t have a traditional game again in their life, there is no youth
activity, such celebration of Nabi Muhammad saw days, mutual aid, and praying
activity for the children in the mosque”
Jony
realized that the racial culture, and the modernism changed the people identity
of this village. Jony thought the bad situation happened because the new system
of new culture, modernism, industrialist, and the social institution had
contaminated our people. Jony explained his observation to Iyan and Hafidz.
Reference:
-
the short prose based on my friends’s experience in my village
-Accros
The Universe’ film
