Manira /Damar Scouts

Episode 50's

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

Damar Jurors

By: Elmira Arasy Rahman

Episode 50's

Gibran was crying on the tracks that afternoon. For some reason, he suddenly missed Hasan so much.

“Mr... Gibran kangen mr...” grumbled Gibran while wiping his tears. “I'm sorry Gibran, because Gibran can't be who you want him to be,” he continued who suddenly felt guilty for his current circumstances.

Hasan really became Gibran's role model, someone Gibran listened to more and Gibran admired than his biological parents who even he was ashamed to call them his father and mother. To this day, Gibran is still disgusted to remember his own origins born from such a relationship. Never in the slightest did he recognize himself as the eldest son of the Damar Juragan. Although Juragan Damar was a rich man, honorable and had everything but Gibran was never proud to be the son of the Damar Scouts. He preferred to call himself the son of Hasan, a poor fishmonger.

Manira caught up with Gibran who had pondered long enough. Manira sat on the tracks in front of Gibran and slid her feet until her white shoes touched the tracks Gibran was sitting on. It was getting dark and quite cold with the afternoon breeze. A ray of afternoon sunlight began to timidly show his face in the western sky.

“There are no bad days or good days. There is only how we look at a problem,” replied Manira, asserting that everything depends on the mindset, depending on how we view a problem.

The human mind or human point of view or perspective has a major influence on the life of the person. If we deposit good or positive thoughts from memory and eliminate negative thoughts, then everything will be beautiful. Because positive thoughts will attract someone to do something positive and become successful while negative thoughts will attract someone to be lazy, he said, timid and looking for excuses to justify his failure so that he really fails.

Everyone has experienced unpleasant situations in their life. If we only remember the bad things, we will become frustrated, anxious, angry and desperate. Those thoughts make us give up and despair which in the end makes us lag on the side of the road while others have already glided on the highway.

The same thing happened to Gibran. Among the many good things, all he remembered was the bad. A reality she was not prepared to face at the age of 12 was the affair of her mother, the fact that she was born as a child of infidelity who later considered herself dirty, the loss of her adoptive father, and the loss of her, the death of his mother and the rejection of everyone. All of that was recorded so well in Gibran's head that Gibran was angry, desperate and felt that he was worthless. All those bad thoughts about the past became “momok mental” for himself and made him reluctant to go forward. Finally he lived like a bum, his hair was a mess, his clothes were shabby and everyone thought he was crazy. He is a very smart and intelligent man.

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