My Golden Family's

increasingly complicated

Since sitting in the Junior High School everything changed, ranging from the nature of neighbors, needs, complicated economy, and also the nature of the father, starting from, I don't know what made dad change.The neighbor I used to think was good turned out to be just a lie. From that moment on I understood the rigors of life, sitting in school and learning to make money was a necessity that we did, the demands of school needs, the demands of school,and the cost of living was so much, not many knew how we should continue living, eating only with white rice, eating only with noodles, and eating only with cassava,we already feel the debt where so we have to work hard and frugal to continue life, however we, only we and God know.

the morning came, where we had to go to school, sometimes not breakfast because only white rice was available, and not even at all.

"mah, today we go to school, right?"

I asked, because my school is the farthest school among us all,my sister who had also entered Junior High at that time chose to enter a private Catholic school (Catholic Rome) which is a favorite school in my village.I am glad she entered there because the facilities are more adequate than my school.

"but mama has no money son, mama has tried to pay off to the neighbors but no one wants to give mama a loan, maybe they're afraid that we can't pay the debt"

continue how dong mah we may not have to skip again right, Sunday yesterday we also did not go to school because there is no cost.

"mama only has 4,000 "

I just want to cry seeing all this

father can not do anything, he also ran out of money because the money from his workplace was already a lot of loans, he also ran out of money,he did not dare if he had to borrow every week.Try to borrow to the neighbors he had done, but nil.

"yes, I'm not papa, let us go home later on foot, no papa kok, which is important we go to school"

mommy can only look papa smile, but I know that they cry.This incident does not happen only once twice, but many times, but already,and not infrequently we are late to school because we have to wait for my father to get a loan from a neighbor.

Having more pocket money is impossible for us, every day we will only get five thousand rations per person, four thousand into fees and a thousand pocket money, then I do not complain. Back home we had to work to fill the stomach, the father who never tire of doing all the important work can make money, as well as Mother, Mother,working in someone else's paddy field he did as long as tomorrow we can eat and go to school.

The father who was a carpenter at that time, had to enter one forest and and move to another hutanyang, not infrequently we helped.Enter into the uninhabited forest, he said, no one knows what the inhabitants of every forest we enter, no humans, only the sound of small animals, water and of course us, we do not know whether there are wild animals in this forest, he said,and if that's it, we don't know when the wild forest will prey on us.

The sound of a hard wood cutting machine wrenching the ears, when the machine has started to cut wood we began to lift the wood - wood that has been shaped.

"sister, if we shout will not be heard, you scream as loud as possible "

"let's see, whose voice is the strongest"

I answered my sister who arrived next to me

"aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"

"aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"

we screamed as loud as we could, but I realized after shouting as if someone had gone away from me, as if all the burdens of my life had left me, my mind was calm, I don't know what the burden of life has to do with screaming.

"later tonight what do we eat?"

Yenti asked me a question, which I don't know what would be the answer.

"huuuh, I don't know maybe tonight we'll just noodles, and if there's rice it's not enough, just be patient"

I don't know what to answer, which is exactly what will happen.

"sister, I don't want to live like this, I want to live well, I don't want to see my mom and dad suffer just because of us"

"duaaarrr"

me and Yenti were shocked by the presence of Tarigan, our brother

"very seriously, what's the story?"

"we're talking about the future" I replied with a smile

"the future?? there's just one" asked back in disbelief

"y future, if you yourself someday want to be what?"

I want to know what my sister's dream is

"for the moment I can't answer, but obviously I want to be successful" he replied briefly but confidently

"what do you want to be"

"i want to be a successful person for sure"

"you Yenti"

"i really want to be a lecturer, but if I graduate High School later I do not want to go to college even if there is money, the lecture is money, mending work, get money"

we could only put on astonished faces, and our gaze was all on Yenti

he could only laugh a little at his stupidity.

"you're Tala, what's it going to be"

my fourth sister, the three of them are still sitting on the SD bench and surely they haven't thought what they'll be yet,,,,,

"i want to be the creator of crackers, hahahaha

so when later my employees work I can while eating crackers as much"

we all laughed spontaneously at her answer, unexpectedly

"the basis of the face of crackers, your mind is only making crackers, want to eat crackers just continue, hahahaha"

we laughed and didn't realize that Dad heard everything

"tapkan is okay, that means he wants to be a cracker entrepreneur"

my father spoke to us in silence, and thought

"it could also be a reward, but the Talaang want to eat Mulu crackers hahahahaha"

we laughed as if the problem was over

"it's time to go home, get everything done, it's gonna be late, we gotta get out of here"

I remember that it was getting late in the afternoon, it was time to go home,

we left the forest that we had to go back to tomorrow while occasionally singing down the path.

not knowing what will happen tomorrow, whether there will be laughter, or tears will all be mysteries and divine plans for all mankind, so will we, live this day with laughter and continue tomorrow when the sun begins to reappear.