My Mom Wants to Mate

4. Stepping Over Old Brother

"Haha." Kendrik laughed out loud.

"I know you're just kidding, Ken. But your jokes are painful, you know! And if one day really happens, I'm mad at you!"

"Son, have you ever seen me walk with a girl?"

Karen shakes.

He remembered. It was true, his sister had never been seen dating a woman. Previously, he had thought that maybe he was dating secretly. It turns out that he really has no girlfriend.

"You don't have a boyfriend yet?"

Kendrik.

Immediately pity penetrated into Karen's heart. "But you've been dating, right?"

"Once, but now not. So, just calm down, I won't step on you."

"For example, you suddenly have a boyfriend, so what?"

"Not how. I'm 20, I don't want to get married yet."

Kendrik took Karen seriously this time. "Indeed, for example, me and my future wife will be ready to get married, you still do not want to be stepped on?"

Karen shakes. "Said people, if the sister married first, then the soul mate so drag."

"Do you believe that?"

"Believe doesn't believe me."

"In the law of nature and cause and effect, it's wrong, brother."

Actually Karen also think so, but are not invisible laws sometimes indeed absurd? So, he tried to get rid of his logical thoughts and accepted the myths.

"Try you think, Brother, you help others, later you will also be helped. Well, you launch the affairs of others, later your affairs will be launched as well. Including the soul mate's business."

"Yes anyway. Yes, I always help with mate problems and always support if anyone wants to get married. That's enough, right?"

"If your own married sister steps over you, you're not supportive?"

"Ehm ...." Karen hesitated.

"Think even deeper, brother. You come to a friend's wedding with joy. Cook your own sister married, you even want to scuttle?"

Yes yes too. But if let married first, will drag the soul mate anyway? If she's ready for marriage and I don't want to be stepped on, pity her and the woman. Cook me his brother instead become an antagonist? (Karen).

Karen paused over her sister's words.

"Marriage involves two people, not just me. Poor my future wife and her family dong. If you are told to wait for you, if you get married soon it is okay. If not? How long will we hang?"

"Keep, what about the myth?"

"We live by the foundation of the law chosen. Want to choose a myth, then live by sticking to the myth. If you want to follow the laws of nature, hold fast."

"If you?"

"I hold fast to the laws of religion and the laws of nature. The law of effect includes the law of nature. Karma goes into it. So, cultivate good karma, later you will harvest good consequences as well. Meanwhile, the overriding myth deviates from the laws of karma and causation. You scuttle the marriage of your own brother, you want to be scuttered by your own brother too?"

"No want to. Uh, but, getting married overstepped on a brother, isn't that rude to an older brother?"

"Since when was marriage put into disrespectful deeds? It's not polite to say I bump your head, or I kick your head, or I swear I'm using dirty words."

"Hm ...."

"Marriage is legalizing the couple, avoiding adultery and including worship. Blocking married people is like blocking people from worshiping. You know what that means, right? You are dealing directly with God. Dare to fight God?"

Karen is a very concerned person about the environment. He tried to save on paper and plastic. How ironic of him who cares about the environment but does not care about the fate of his own sister.

"If that's the case, for example you want to marry first, I'll support you, Ken. You got my full support."

Karen and Kendrik smiled at each other. "If you support, there find me a girlfriend," said Kendrik who even made his brother furious.

"You forgot I went to your room, why?! I'm asking for a girlfriend."

Kendrik scratched his head and continued to work on the task. Karen returned to her room, continuing to pack the items she was about to bring to her new home.

His mother came to help. "If you are still sad and sad to think of a mate, the move is postponed first, Ren!"

Ish, kok kesel ya. (Karen).

For some reason in Karen's ears, her mother's words were like being ridiculed. Or maybe Karen's ears that have been too much of a snooze so misperception?

"No, Ma. I'll move tomorrow. Living independently is self-esteem, Ma. I am of this age too."

Karen's spirit has returned a little. Exchanging thoughts with his sister had brought his own freshness to his life.

I'll let you get married first if you're ready first than me, Ken. (Karen).

Hufh, if you know, Ren, Mama really wants you to have a family soon. Look at the children of friends Mama already married, Mama pity you who are still alone. (Mama Castle).

Mama Puri recalls the last time Karen introduced a lover to him. It was a long time ago, about 2 years ago.

"Ren, actually the type of man your dream is like how the hell?" Mama Puri is worried that her son is too high in standards so that no one can qualify.

Karen was surprised her mother asked that. "Ehm, I like that ... um, how about? The self-sufficient, the handsome, whose words can make flowers."

Mama Puri patted her forehead. "Ren, mendingan terms handsome same flowery words that you remove. Where there are such perfect people."

"That handsome I mean handsome in my eyes, Ma. Relative."

"Yes handsome Korean artist is not a problem, but do not make it a benchmark. The handsome is a bonus. What matters is the character and the sense of regret to you. Keep the matter of those flowery words ...." Not done yet her mother said, Karen cut.

"Quiet, Ma! I don't expect a songwriter or a poet. The important thing is that the person can grieve with good words. For example, praise or digombal that make a smile, that's it, Ma."

"Oh." Mother mangosteen. He was worried that his son hoped that someone who was smart would make a rhyme or song that rarely existed. Except for the great artists or songwriters of Mamad Dhani's class.

Karen this time packed her reading books. There fell a picture from the pile of books. Photos of his ex-girlfriend. His mother saw the photo. "Have you got a girlfriend yet?"

"No idea, Ma. No contact and no longer interested in contact."

"It's okay, Mama doesn't like him very much either."

"What is your dream daughter-in-law like?"

"What is important is that you are comfortable with people, have fear, take responsibility for family and do not play rough, Mama would like."

"If so, we must be patient, Ma! It's hard to find people who are comfortable while meeting the criteria."

"So, next month at Mila's wedding, you can still wait for the right soul mate and patiently bring people, right?"

Karen was shocked.

Oh yes, Mila's wedding. If you can't be patient, you have to move. (Karen).

To be continued...

Jogja, April 4th 2021