Manira /Damar Scouts

Episode 49's

Short episode version of the novel “Senandung HOMESU under the Broken Moon Wings”

Damar Jurors

By: Elmira Arasy Rahman

Episode 49's

Gibran was upset, he shouldered a plastic bag filled with grass and walked down the tracks into an old tunnel. Manira gets angry because Gibran ignored her.

“One year there are 365 days. Can't everybody fuck up?” shout Manira.

Gibran looked back.

“Among those 365 days there must be something good that you went through. Why do you only remember the bad? Why not try to remember something good and then get up?”

“You don't know anything, so don't be pretentious,” Gibran is angry.

“There must be many beautiful moments in your life that you have passed. Do not just because of one thing you do not like and then you forget all the beauty. One week has seven days. If your Tuesday is bleak, it doesn't mean the other day is broken. One day has 24 hours. If only one minute you are bitten by a dog, it does not mean that the day is a bad day,”

Gibran leaves Manira. Manira did not give up. According to him, the main problem for his friend and everyone who fails lies in his mindset. If his mind was dead, giving up, despairing then everything would also die. There is nothing that anyone can do to change a person's life if the person himself has no desire to change. Just like a cigarette addict who is as hard as we try to rid him of his dependence, all will be useless if the person himself has no desire to stop smoking. According to Manira, it is useless to have Gibran change if he himself cannot change his mindset about himself and about his life.

“Only once... try to remember the good things in your life, then you will definitely feel that life is not as cruel as you imagine,” cried Manira once again.

Gibran. Actually wanted to ignore him, but Manira's words were like firecrackers that always teased her ears. Somehow, he begins to be influenced by Manira's words to remember one by one events that have happened in the past and realize that in fact his life is not as bad as he imagined.

Gibran sat on the tracks, mute, his face mellow, his eyes glazed over his once very happy childhood. Have a full family. There's a father, there's a mother. He did not live in a normal family like the other children. At least, he once felt he had a very good father. A father who never complains despite his bitter life.

Gibran recalls one by one his memories with Hasan, someone who was even better than his own real father. They play ball together, they fish together, they eat together. His tears flowed in memory of a man who was very kind and willing to take care of him sincerely even though he was the son of the result of his wife's affair with another man. Gibran was really amazed, proud and missed the figure of Hasan who since then no longer knows where his existence.

Gibran's memories come to that event, the last time they met. At that time Hasan told me,

“Gibran listen dad. One day Gibran will have to be a great and successful man. Wh why? Because Gibran is a man. A man will have no price if he has no money, no position and no honor. Do not let Gibran be like a father: poor and always humiliated. Don't let Gibran be a weak man who can't get what Gibran wants. Gibran had to be tough and strong in order to put everything Gibran wanted in Gibran's grasp,” Hasan's last piece of advice to Gibran.

Seriate...