Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Heart of Diamond

Sunday afternoon, It was rainiy. Birds hide under trees' branches,just sound of water dropped from sky,no lightning,nothing.It was quiet afternoon where most people stayed at home. There was he, sit under one of those trees with his wet body and hungry face. His eyes were moving, he was like want to say something but he didnt see anyone pass by. He saw his old rugged watch stopped on 7, he knew it was 7pm. Rain still play with its business, it didnt stop yet. His name is sam,but it was his short called.Real name was Samsudin. He was selling "ketoprak". Ketoprak served with tokwa mixed with peanuts sauce with additional vegetables. Rain was getting heavier, he pulled out and stopped under the tree,he put down his carrier from his shoulder. He didnt get any costumer yet. He was thingking "should i go home now,? God was not on my side today". But he decided to stay because He thought about his wife and 2 children at home waiting for him to bring some food for that day. "Im going to get costumers and bring food to my family." From a far he looked someone was coming to the tree where he was hiding. Sam was very happy, "i know God will send me costumers," he said. It was an old woman walking very slow, she didnt have any umbrella,just some used clothes covered her head.Samsudin ran to her and tried to help her to walk faster because rain was getting harder and harder. Now both of them were there under the tree. Samsuding hoped for costumers,but he knew that this old woman wont be his costumer. He saw hunger in her face, she was shaking. And it was right, the old woman asked samsuding " can you give me something to eat?" she said. Samsudin inhaled,almost cried. Now he had to cook food for this old woman for free. But samsudin was a really good men. He said to the old woman "ok grandma i will cook for you." He was a good ketoprak maker. He started to fried the tohu and while waiting for the tohu he prepared the peanut sauce and vegetables. Here it came delicious ketoprak. The old woman ate it slowly but she really enjoyed the food and rain seemed tired playing now, it slowing down. The old woman finished the food and the rain stopped. Time to depart, she returned the dirty plate to samsuding and said "my son thank you for the food." Samsudin just smile and said " your welcome grandma." He knew he will not get any money from this old woman. The old woman said " i knew you didnt get any costumers yet but still you gave me free food to eat." Samsudin just smiled, "its ok grand ma," he said. "I dont have money to pay you but i do have something for you," she said. She opened her old bag and pulled out one small box and said to samsudin " open this when you arrive at your home." samsudin said "ok grandma." The old woman and samsudin went for different direction.After 10 steps of walking samsudin turn his head and he didnt see the old woman anymore, he thought " ah maybe she can walk faster after eating." He didnt think anything about the small box, but he just kept his promise he will open this box soon after he arrive at home. Samsudin arrived in his house, he took a bath, and told to his wife and children about his experience. He told them " we need to see what inside the box now. He opened the box slowly and shines burst from the box. He watched carefully of what really inside the box, he found that it was a small white stone called diamond.


Lesson Learned : Help anyone you can help, dont be choosy because you dont know you might help an angel.

Monday, February 25, 2008

Meet the Angel


I flashed my memory back in 1997 where i woke up in the middle of the night looking at my friend slept so peaceful. I knew he got sick that day. He transformed seeds of one plant called "kecubung" and made it became dangerous drugs. I remembered one time he said to me " i got bored with this life" Actually he not that poor. He came from middle family economic status but the obvious things different between me and him is that parents' attention. But i will not talk bad things about him. He is my bestfriend. I knew somehow my friend has this "advanced" sense. He got sick because he consumed his own drugs and made his body so exhausted and skinny. This kecubung drug works like this; When you consume it, it will attack your emotion, and you became uncontrollable. Often they used this drug to fight, but not this time. My friend used this for his own happiness.Actually i dont know what kind of happiness that he will get after consuming the drug. I liked marijuana before and i knew i got happy when i consumed it. But this kecubung, im not that sure. So after he consumed it with normal dose he felt not satisfied, so he added more doses and more until he got really really sick. His body weight down by 7kg in just one week.Can you imagine that?. He just slept in the room and every day i brought my friend food to eat. So one night i woke up, it was 1 am in the morning. I looked to my drugged friend and i was shocked to see someone was there. An old man seated beside him. I dnt know who was the old man, maybe ghost or angel. I starred to this old man for 20 seconds wondering who was he. The old man seemed so peaceful,he bowed his head, actually he looked sad, i can see from his face. But this old man didnt see me, im not sure he didnt want to see me or he cant see me. It still a mystery for me.So after 20 seconds of starring i slept again. At 7am i was shocked to see my drugged friend came from the outside and brought me some food. I knew yesterday he still cant walk, so weak. Now he was just like before but still thin. Question in my mind, who was the old man last night? Did he do something to my friend? did he heal my friend? i didnt watch whole scene.i believe i saw an angel,because i saw what he did to my friend.My friend healed.