A Choice's

Mandatory Duty

Mr. Fadhil, Salsa's father who worked as a coal miner in 2005-2006 who was not far from his village. Because he did not really understand how to farm and also did not get the idea of farming what is about much in demand by consumers. At that time Salsa was 8 years old and he did not understand how difficult it was for his father to find money to meet the needs of his family, which he loved so much.

His mother who also works to help finance looks very enthusiastic. His mother grows vegetables such as spinach, cucumber kale, long beans and others. Planting vegetables is not easy, when the dry season arrives Fitri mother must transport water from the river to water her plants. And at harvest is not necessarily the price that he can match the sweat he put out when planting and watering. But that's life, must remain grateful because there are still many out there whose life is far less than Mr. Fadhil's family.

When he returned from work, Mr. Fadhil never showed a facial expression complaining of fatigue when he was near Salsa. His father looked very strong in Salsa's eyes.

“father father. Want Salsa not?” salsa asked her father who was lying on the prayer mat because he had just finished praying magrib congregation.

“Emang Salsa can mijit?” ask the father.

“Yaa can dong dad, said ustadzah Ifa if Salsa mijit delicious, I want to try not?”

“ya already here daddy” shoulder massage replied Mr. Fadhil by pointing at his shoulder which is actually in need of a massage.

At the end of 2008, Mr. Fadhil and his small family were given sustenance that will never forget to be grateful and endlessly pray for everything to be okay, Fitri's mother was pregnant. Fitri's mother's pregnancy was only discovered after 2 months, and somehow Salsa and her family felt after learning of the news from a midwife who was also her friend Bu Fitri at the time, happy and also very grateful because soon there will be a figure of a tiny child who every day will take care of Salsa.

“mother, mother. Later if the sister has come out of the stomach of the mother let Salsa alone guard! Anyway if Salsa goes home from school Salsa directly want to play with sister”.

“iyya, now you should always pray for your mother and sister-to-be so that everything is healthy and well” replied Fitri's mother gently to Salsa.

“So you can't take care and play that sister??” salsa's father asked in a mocking tone to Salsa who was excited about having a younger brother.

“ah father will be his job to make money for the feeding of his sister later if you have been born” Salsa replied as if no one can take care of his sister except him.

After 10 years Mr. Fadhil and Ms. Fitri look forward to the presence of the second child finally Allah answered all his prayers. How happy the little family is because the members of the family will grow. And this happiness is not only felt by his small family, but the whole family of his father and mother Salsa was happy and held a big family thanksgiving and invited some close neighbors.

During the hot day, Salsa and her father were busy eating pineapple.

“mom don't eat pineapple? Usually you like to eat this” Ask Salsa to her mother who is just busy peeling the pineapple fruit that we will eat.

“mom you can not eat pineapple dear” replied Salsa father briefly.

“lah why? Kan fruit is healthy for pregnancy” asked Salsa who still needs a more detailed explanation.

“iya, pineapple is good for pregnancy, but if consumed a little, if pregnant people eat pineapple excessively can result in miscarriage”.

“wah so pregnant people can not eat a lot of pineapple, Salsa new tau bu” replied Salsa who already understood with the explanation of her mother.

Now Mr. Fadhil works as a farmer, he was invited by one of the families who came from Java and married the natives of his village, his name is Indra sir. Well Mr. Indra invites Mr. Fadhil to plant large chilies that Mr. Indra said will be asked by many buyers.

"Sir Fadhil, how will lek (if) we plant chilies? Inshaa Allah the result is not detrimental" bargained Mr. Indra.

"Well I do not understand planting soan mr. le (call name to Mr. Indra)" replied Mr. Fadhil still doubtful.

"Wes calm ae, I Nek kampung ku wes ever planted chilli koyok ngono, (remember, I've been in the village chili kayak garden), the results are good" Mr. Indra tried to convince.

"Keep roughly how much funds to plant the chili sir?" Mr. Fadhil is becoming interested.

" Lek problems cost us ae joint venture, we work together, will be light lek work both".

"May also le, than I work in the mine, it works very hard, not to mention health so bet if there" Mr. Fadhil finally agreed

"la Iyo's. Wong kerjo mine is not good (mining work is not good), mending our own business,". Reply Mr. Indra with his jaw log which is still thick.

Planting chili peppers is not easy, especially in terms of cost. This job requires a lot of funds because it must buy seeds, polybags, and then will be fertilized after the plants are about 1 month old. And the fertilizer to be used is various2. After Mr. Fadhil raised funds, because Mr. Fadhil did not understand how to plant it, they finally cooperated in planting the chili.

After 3 months of waiting, finally arrived when harvesting the results, because the results of the plant has not been known by the buyers, initially Mr. Fadhil and Mr. Indra msih sell per kilo to the market, the result is Alhamdulillah return capital doubled.

The following year, in May 2007, Mr. Fadhil and Mr. Indra again planted chilli for the third time, this time there are tomatoes that are also his new business. And after planting several times finally Mr. Fadhil found a contractor who Alhamdulillah did not harm. The cost per kilogram is almost the same as the market price. And the contractor does not feel a loss because the plants of Mr. Fadhil and Mr. Indra are indeed good quality.

From the hard work of Mr. Fadhil to plant chilli, finally can be used to renovate a house that is old age.

“Bu, what if this father's harvest money in the tube for us to build a house?” ask Mr. Fadhil to his wife who is stroking his stomach because it is getting bigger.

“wah, that's a very good idea sir. But the prophet is not in the bank, because if the bank is afraid to run out because it has to pay tax”. Not that Fitri's mother is stingy, but his wife is indeed very selective in making decisions and also full of caution without forgetting to think about how in the future.

“iyya. How do we put it in mom? I'm really pinter save money” Pak Fadhil expressed his idea.

“by sir. We better put it in mom only safer”. Because they have both trusted their mothers, each of them finally the money is deposited on the father-in-law of Mr. Fadhil.

Those are the two most beautiful gifts that God gave to Mr. Fadhil and his little family.