Short Story (Cerpen)
Me and my Organization
Category: Love Story
Title: Me and My Organization
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Childist, silly, crazy etc, maybe that's a small part of the name for me who is stepping on the status of a student at a State University in Semarang. Although the name is not pleasant to hear or even hurtful, for me it is a sign of attention from my friend. Because they couldn't have branded me that way if they hadn't known me and been close to me.
But after 2 semesters, without me realizing it my life began to shift and changed a little. At first I was indifferent, and passive being a super busy person. Life at home can be counted as fingers. I spend more and more of my time on extraordinary activities within the campus organization. At first the fad came in, uh did not expect that from my puckiness it brought a lesson that I might not have thought of before.
Of the many organizations, many also make me interested to enter and dabble in it. This is where fate intervened to help me find an experience that suited my character and certainly suited me. Somehow out of the many organizations that I choose, such as Theater, Student Association, Scientific Work, Radio and Social Service, only two that I can always follow the activities are Radio and Social Service. Every other organization holds a gathering or meeting of new members, always a time that does not predestine me to come. Once the theater held a gathering together, coinciding with a family event. Strangely when Radio and Social Service tell me to come in his show always when I'm free aka no work. Well, from these various events I chose to be serious in the two organizations that are Radio and Social Service.
Even though he has entered the organization, even silly and behavioral characters have not been able to disappear from me. I still often act arbitrarily anywhere and under any circumstances, even though it is in a meeting that should be with a serious atmosphere but instead become rame and splashy because of me. But it's not disputed by my friends. They seem to be able to accept me and connect when hanging out with me. And maybe that was the beginning of my seriousness to survive in both organizations.
Stepping 1 year in my organizations or you could say my college has stepped on the fourth semester, cute characters, childists and others, have begun to diminish from me. The important positions I got in the two organizations, namely the Coordinator in the Radio organization and vice chairman in the Social Service. I never thought I could get that position and why my friends believed in me when they knew my character. Negative thoughts were lodged in my mind, lest they choose me because they want to bring me down. Ah I don't know, for me it's a trust that I have to run, even though I still don't believe in myself but I have to keep living it.
After I went through it, it turned out that all my negative thoughts used to be wrong. All I could get through and the friends I initially thought wanted to bring me down turned out to be supportive and confident that I could do it. One of my friends named Nunung once said his trust in me was like this
'You're the gookil but the responsibility, I see there's a leader's soul in you', hearing that I don't believe, that someone else can entrust a responsibility to me, someone who is ugly and hard to be serious. That's a statement I never expected from anyone.
There is another one that makes me sweet and makes me excited in my organization, which is a guy. A guy who became my coworker is now a guy who fills my heart. As the saying goes 'Love comes by habituation'. He is the head of the Radio organization. Because I'm a division coordinator so we often spend time together to discuss our work programs.
'Na, I'll meet you at basecamp', a short message from Vino said
'Okay no, what time?', I said
'What time do you finish college?', Vino asked me
'around 10 o'clock is done', reply me again
'sip I'm waiting for ya'
That's an example of a short message from him, sometimes even longer than that, ranging from discussing the organization to discussing things that are not important. But that's what makes me excited.
It has been almost a year of my management in my organization, both on Radio and Social Service. Soon I will be removed and replaced by a new manager. It turned out that time quickly passed, but not much I gave to the two organizations. A sense of haru came to my heart as I gathered with my old friends to talk about the change of manager. Tucked away a little nostalgia when we work together. It feels like they have become a part of my life that fills my days. And maybe it's like I'll miss when I'm not a student.
