A Choice's

Arzan's Promise

Salsa is in Grade 6. Usually when a Student is at the end of his school, he will plan a lot how after he graduated later, as well as Salsa. But Salsa's plan involved his extended family's plan.

“Sa, you already want to pass yah” said mom started her talk.

“iyya nih bu. About if Salsa passed SD want to continue where well? Salsa is confused, Salsa ministers no one dizzy about this” replied Salsa.

“Nak. later if you have graduated from Elementary School, you will go to far school, and you will live far apart from your father, mother and also your sister Fawwaz”. His mother began to explain his intention to send salsa to his place.

“Hah? Where's ma'am? Mommy want me to go far?”

“Not so son, mother and father hope that later you will become a successful woman, unlike mother and father who are only farmers, Salsa will make us happy?” ask the mother.

“ya want mom, I want to make mom and dad happy and want to love your hajj later if Salsa has succeeded”. Salsa answered excitedly.

Hearing what her son Salsa said, her mother immediately cried from happiness.

“nah so you have to study diligently, you must be able to prove it to father and mother if you can succeed” the father continued the words of the mother earlier.

“so Salsa should go to school far?” ask Salsa.

“iyya, you will come with your om who is in Makassar” replied Salsa's father.

“hah? Far away dad. If the school near here is not successful, huh?” it seems that Salsa does not agree because the distance between West Kalimantan and South Sulawesi is indeed very far.

After his mother and father explained at length, Salsa finally collapsed and was willing to follow the wishes of his parents.

When Salsa was at school she was still thinking about what her parents had said.

“Salsa, why are you? Tumben you moody?” ask Zahra his best friend.

“iyya nih Ra, I'm confused. My parents want me to go to school in Sulawesi where omku” Salsa tells me a little.

Zahra was shocked to hear the story of Salsa, because after Zahra Salsa wanted a cottage not far from his village

“Hahs. Who is really Sa? So if you have graduated, you will move to Sulawesi dong”

“iyya Ra's. I'm rattled. I don't want to be away from my family”.

“iyya Ra's. But I'm not ready to be away from them. I still want to stay with them, au want us to stay together like this”.

Salsa is getting sad because she will also part with her two best friends.

After a few weeks it turned out that Salsa was still thinking about how the story of the region later, he began to open talks with his mother.

“Mother, if Salsa to Sulawesi how many years have you returned here?”

“yaa if you go home automatically you also come home” (here Salsa always mention the word sulawesi because he does not know what the name of the village he will make as a place of exploration later).

“om will rarely go home mom, so Salsa will rarely go home also dong”. Salsa is starting to go weak.

“ibu, kenpa Salsa does not goondok deket kampung bu, it's good to often go home, see mother, father, sister, and others” continued Salsa.

“Nak, said your father if you want to go to school and succeed it is not a responsibility, do not go to school so that you do not often go home and can focus on your school”. Fitri's mother explained her father to Salsa.

Salsa always thought about her life after she was in Sulawesi, she thought she would leave her family, her teachers, and her friends. He always imagined what life would be like without them, would anyone want to be his best friend? Does anyone want to hear the story like Zahra and Difa? Salsa murmured in her heart that continued to be muddled. But Salsa remains passionate about living the life she lives now because she thinks that if she leaves later, it will not be the same as the life she lives today.

“Sa, about later in your new school place there will not be a river kayak here?” ask her best friend.

“ya there must be dong Fa. There must be more beautiful than here, here is a remote village, maybe in a new Salsa place will be more beautiful” replied Zahra who first imagined how beautiful Salsa place will be.

“Ah I don't know. I'm still dizzy. I don't want to be away from you, nor can I be far from my parents and my little sister. Au kasian same mother, afraid if au go no one to help keep Fawwaz and certainly no one help wash his clothes mom if I already go”. Salsa answered with great concern.

One side he wants to make both parents happy, and on the other hand he does not have the heart to see his mother work all by herself.

Indeed, for the last few months, what Salsa has in mind is only about Sulawesi. There's nothing else. He continued to imagine how lucky his friends who continued school but did not have to stay as far as Salsa would go. He kept thinking and imagining if there were good people, friendly people, and so on. Will Salsa's life be the same as life here? Starting from the association, freedom, cheerfulness and much more that Salsa thought. The positives and negatives are all reflected in Salsa's mind.

Salsa's father and mother have always encouraged and encouraged Salsa not to half-heartedly take this step.

“So, if you go to school there, you will definitely have many friends, so you do not only have friends in this village, there the people must be good as well as your friends here, Salsa must be enthusiastic, he said you want to make father and mother happy. If you want to make us happy then you have to study hard, you have to prove sam father and mother if you can succeed and can be our happiness”. Salsa's father gradually encouraged the child not to worry and follow his will.

“but yeah, Salsa scared. If for example there is a Salsa theme that does not like how?” “no maybe Salsa is not liked as much there, Salsa is a good, diligent, and polite child, if there is a friend you do not like, you have to be patient. His name is alive there must be people who like there are also people who like the same we nak”.

Now Salsa begins to understand that both her parents put a very big hope so that she can become a successful person and can change her family life for the better. And Salsa will strive to fulfill her father and mother's dream of becoming a successful and useful person. Especially in order to change the villagers to be better and not backward.