I'm a Widow But a Virgin

Venetian

Venice, one of the beautiful and exotic cities in Italy. Its distinctive narrow streets, beautiful ancient bridges and buildings make anyone want to visit it.

If we talk about the most beautiful cities in the world it would be illegal not to include the name of Venice in it. There are not many places that can be compared with this one city, here we can explore the typical narrow streets, canals with tiny bridges and beautiful ancient buildings.

Venice, located in the northeastern part of Italy, is known as the floating city, bridge city or canal city, the city has 177 canals connected by 417 bridges including 72 private bridges.

The city, also called the water city, is built on wooden pillars in muddy soil on 117 small islands located in a lagoon that was once shallow. However, due to the weight of the burden that must be borne by wooden pillars whose age has reached hundreds or even up to a thousand years, the city of Venice also now gets the nickname "The Sinking City" or a city that is sinking. The level of sea water is getting higher and lately the city is also often flooded.

Besides being famous for the Carnival of Venice, where participants wear masked costumes every February, the city of Venice is also very synonymous with gondolas, a type of traditional rowboat that serves as a means of transportation.

To meet the growing demand of tourists, there have been about 350 gondolas available. I myself have never ridden a gondola because the rent is quite expensive. To tour for 30 minutes, we have to pay 31 euros or about 450,000 rupiah per person and usually one gondola can only carry a maximum of 6 passengers.

There are some attractions that should not be passed. There is Piazza San Marco or Saint Mark's Square where there are beautiful historic buildings such as Saint Mark Basilica, Doges Palace and San Marco Campanile. Do not forget to also visit the Canale Grande or Grand Canal, the Rialto Bridge and the Bridge of Sighs bridge which is famous for its unique architecture, as well as the Gallerie dell'Accademia.

In addition to enjoying the beauty of Venice, we can also travel by vaporetto to the island of Murano which is famous as a center of crafts from glass materials (Murano glass has had a reputation abroad) including the typical lights or to the island of Burano, Burano, a very instagrammable fishing town with colorful painted buildings.

Have you heard of tiramisu cake, right? Well, tiramisu is widely found in cake shops or in cafes in this city because tiramisu also comes from this area. I Tre Mercanti and Pasticceria Tonolo are the most famous cake shops in Venice.

"Hoaaammmmm" Hafiz yawned as her eyes began to open from waking her up.

Seeing Alisha's beautiful face beside her, Hafiz gently stroked Alisha's face.

Alisha who got a touch from Hafiz immediately woke up.

"Dear you're awake?"

"Already, look..."

Alisha instead tightened her embrace on Hafiz's body.

"Tiring journey, what could be closed in a moment"

"Don't love, we'll be late for morning prayers"

"Yes Okay"

Alisha and Hafiz woke up and performed congregational morning prayers.

After the prayer, Alisha hugged Hafiz again.

She devoted her love and affection to the man who is now her husband her life-long friend.

"You why? keep hugging"

"Thank you, baby"

Hafiz nodded, "I'm supposed to thank you dear"

"Kan Mas who embodied all this, why is it Mas who is grateful?"

"Thank you for being Mas's companion, for accepting Mas, for forgiving Mas"

"As all that has passed, we have looked at our future"

Hafiz now embraces Alisha "You know baby, my biggest fear is that when I had to lose you back then, I was afraid of losing the woman I loved again after my mother, Sorry it was Sha"

"Yes Alisha has forgiven Mas for a long time"

"Thank you because you, Mama and Wijaya family have given Mas a warm family, 27 years old Mas did not feel the warmth of the family, Mas lonely" Hafiz's eyes began to glaze over.

Slowly the tears of Hafiz flowed, Alisha immediately wiped her "Remember, you must not grieve as long as Mas is with me"

"Honey, if we have children later Mas want you to focus on taking care of children only, if later you have to teach, teach half a day only"

Alisha nodded and promised to obey what Hafiz said.

"Mas if there's a load in your mind tell me"

Hafiz opens up and tells Alisha.

"Sha's motherless life will certainly have a big impact on my emotional state. At first, I tend to dwell on my own thoughts and question the reason for the mother's departure.

I felt lonely, especially when I remembered that I did not get the care and affection needed from a mother. When I didn't get the answer, I grew angry and frustrated with myself.

This made me often experience sudden emotional changes. It is this change that makes it difficult to communicate with those around him.

I who grew up without maternal affection also tended to have low levels of trust, both in myself and others. This often occurs in children who are abandoned by the figure of the mother. Being ignored often makes me feel worthless.

As a result, I always felt doubtful and unsure of my own abilities. When I succeed in doing an achievement, instead of feeling happy I assume that the achievement is not an effort of myself, but just a fortune.

I also have a hard time building relationships with others. I who live without a mother because of death, lost the nearest figure for ever leaving an inner wound on me.

When I grieve for too long and find no way out to stop the sadness, I become more vulnerable to the symptoms of depression. I tend to withdraw from my environment.

So Mas hope that if later we have children, Mas does not want our children to have the same fate as Mas"

Hafiz wiped away her tears, Alisha hugged Hafiz and patted her husband on the back to calm him down.

"Mas, what if there are still many mothers out there who have to work because of the circumstances"

"Yes there are positives and negatives, they can still feel the figure of the mother even though with the intensity of time is not much different from Mas, the positive impact is usually the child who lives in his working parents that the child becomes independent.

Children of working mothers become independent, intelligent and active. This is because the fact that working mothers leave children will certainly educate children more independently because they have to do everything by themselves without depending on others.

Inculcate good habits

When working every day the mother is assisted by the father in completing household chores after they return from work. By seeing fathers every day helping mothers, children learn good habits and instill attitudes of helping others as well as their mothers, so that in this way good habits are instilled in them.

Inspiration for children.

Working mothers are an inspiration to children when they see their mothers and say that they aspire to be like their mothers when they grow up. Especially when working mothers not only work but also take care of their children without difficulty. By looking like that, it is possible for inspired children even they will also learn to do hard work in their lives later."

"The negative thing is yes, children may feel alone and fall into a bad influence. As a result of children away from the mother, they get excessive freedom especially when the mother is not there, children will feel free to do anything without control. In this way they can fall into bad influence and instill evil in it.

Not only that, they may feel alone and look elsewhere to vent it out, this is because the mother is not there for the children due to work as well as lack of maternal affection.

Mothers cannot attend important children's school meetings.

Because of office work, working mothers are unable to attend school meetings that can build feelings of inferiority and guilt in them.

Such cases can have an impact on the psychology of children's depression, thus affecting their health to a greater extent. This is not only harmful to the psychological child who is far from the parents but further from what is imagined later.

Working women are unable to devote quality time to their children. That way children cannot share their feelings with their parents. This makes them loners and shy (introverts) are caused by not being able to express their feelings with parents."

"A working mother should feel proud of herself because she has the power to give her best to her family at the same time without forgetting her responsibilities. One thing women should keep in mind is that they should not be angry or annoyed with children but should be better able to educate and nurture and deal with children with love, affection, and care, and patience."

"Sha don't look at her work and not work, many do not work but they are engrossed themselves, do not want to teach their children to do PR, fun to play mobile phones, engrossed in her soap opera, and so on, Fun with gossiping until it feels the same between working and not working.

Working or not working is the most important is his attention, although working but must still pay attention to the child as well"

"Yes Mas was right what Mas said, Oh yes Mas is not sad anymore right"

Hafiz shook his head. He felt a little relieved because his childhood sadness had been poured out on his wife.

"When we take a shower, we'll take a walk later"

"Where's Mas?"

"Basilica of Saint Mark"

"Okay, Alisha just follow, anywhere with Mas must be fun" said Alisha with a happy smile.

They finally took a bath together and immediately got ready for Mark's square,

St. Mark's Basilica is a historic building located in St. Mark’s Square, and is known as one of the tourist attractions in Venice that you must visit. Formerly, the building served as a showcase for the wealth that Venice accumulated as a military force. In addition, St. Mark's Basilica with a building structure that combines Byzantine and Gothic architectural styles in a unique way is also an Instagramable tourist attraction in Venice.

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Santypuji