Stabilizing Choices
Meet Gandu
sunday, the sun this morning feels warm.As usual, a vegetable seller walks around the housing complex peddling his vegetables, complete with gossip as an attraction to invite the mother to buy her vegetables. he offered his vegetables while telling me many things with his mother who came to his cart.not just the vegetable seller and mother's mother, he said, many young people as well as parents enjoy their mornings by running small along the way to keep their bodies healthy. exercise has a lot of benefits for the body to always be healthy and avoid disease.
boy woke up at 6.45 am. he intended to exercise early in the morning, surround the housing complex to maintain his body fitness. busy as officials in his company make the time to exercise boy reduced, reduce, and he had to spend a little free time to exercise.boy uses a soccer jersey with the emblem of paris saint Germany, one of the famous football clubs with the best players. boy loved paris saint germany since he saw Ibrahim Movic competing with the team.boy out of his room using a soccer jersey combined with his shorts and sports shoes. he found that astrid and yopi are also ready to exercise in the morning.
"want to run too" asked the boy who was sitting on the porch preparing to run.
"iya dong" said yopi as he jumped and stretched his arms to stretch his muscles.They came out of the house, running small down the street along the compound of their house.
the boy guides in front and follows the yopi next to the boy, while the astrid is in the rearmost position because of his slowest run. they have run almost 15 minutes and. astrid asks for a short break.
"stopiii" shouted astrid calling boy and yopi. astrid stopped and sat down by the roadside.
"the female base is weak.it is also short" said yopi mocking astrid who is regulating the breath.
"you mean? we're almost out of the complex loh" replied astrid who was still sitting on the asphalt road. they rest for 5 minutes. boy sitting on the side of the road while drinking and yopi still spirit, yopi push up, yopi push up, jump and run small to and fro.
they ran until they reached the front gate of the complex.they ran back towards the house.yopi was very excited that morning.he ran while glancing at girls his age who was also running in the morning. while he was running he kicked a stone in front of him.yopi yelled in pain his thin sports shoes so that his left toe nail was bleeding
"your eyes go where the hell" said astrid annoyed to yopi for not being careful.
"it hurts" said the yopi with a face that was holding back pain as the boy opened his shoes.
"kalo run tuh eyes are not flirtatious" said the boy while giving a mocking smile. while looking at the wound on the yopi nail. came a little girl the age of yopi. the girl noticed the boy who was watching the big toe of yopi.
"the pain must be." said the girl.yopi's expression that was enduring the pain changed instantly as if she didn't feel anything.
"no pain kok. in the case of red medicine also healed" replied confident yopi. astrid and boy smiled in wonder at the behavior of yopi. then suddenly came someone approaching them
"don't be quick, brother tired.loh why is he?"said the young man and asked the girl.it turned out that the young man was an addict who was also running in the morning with his sister.
"he kicked a rock" said the boy briefly.
"his words don't hurt" said astrid laughing mocking yopi.
"oh yeah, whose sister? ask astrid
"oh, I'm addicted and this is my sister's.we live behind this complex" replied Gandu introduced himself. Then the boy introduced himself and shook hands, shaking hands, so did astrid also introduce themselves to the palanquin. they get up from that place. they walk casually and talk about gandu. yopi who is sick in the arms by boy, who is, although before him he does not want to be carried because it will lower his self-esteem in front of the lampstand.
gandu talks about his new self back from America. Gandu only lived alone with his sister because they already do not have parents. Gandu's father died when Gandu was still in school. and her mother died while in college, at that time she decided to move to America because she had to manage her mother's inheritance company, although she had everything in America, she said, gandu decided to return to Indonesia because he missed his hometown so much and finished something he left here.
"you're back because you have to take care of your company here?" ask boy
"my company already manages it" replied Gandu
"but I have to finish my romance story that I left behind" added Gandu.
"oh, you're an ldr fighter" said the boy nodding.gandu silently as he glanced at the boy. then pandu and lampooned farewell to continue his morning run. they ran away leaving the astrid boy and yopi who were still in the sling boy.dian ran while waving his hand towards yopi and yopi smiled while replying to the wave.
"it's still young and it's been a success" said the boy praising Gandu
"yes. handsome too" said astrid.boy glanced at astrid was smiling to himself.they reached home.boy lowered the yopi from his back, then yopi walked into the house with a limp. astrid followed the yopi into the house.
boy sitting on the terrace, he stared at the streets while daydreaming.he imagined how different his journey to live his self with opium. gandu does not need to pioneer a career from the bottom because it was born from a family that has everything, so easy to get to the top point, different from the boy, so easy to get to the top, his self had to go through a long process of exhausting to get to the point now.but so, he remains grateful for the long journey and exhausting his sweet-fruited self today. that morning her heart was happy, visible from the sweet smile that was engraved on her face.
boy got up from his seat and walked towards his room.he took off his shoes and clothes to rush a shower.he was in the bathroom for almost 20 minutes. he performed his routine ritual before bathing, which is squatting in a toilet and removing the garbage that is in his stomach and after that he took a bath.
he had taken a shower and changed clothes and then walked to the front of the house.order a typical vegetable dish through the application.not long before the food delivery came. he called the astrid and yopi to breakfast with him. Astrid came out carrying dishes and drinking water then they ate together. while eating, he remembered rey. he was thinking of taking the road today, all of you want to hear what rey wants to say to him. he called rey, but not answered by rey. boy thinks maybe Rey is going to the market shopping with his mom.
boy sends a message to rey to tell rey that boy will pick her up at 3 pm and take her to a night entertainment tour. not how long Rey also retaliated, true alleged boy that rey was in the market with his mom and was in the car to go home. Rey agreed to invite boy to go. got a reply that, boy close his phone and continue his breakfast.after that he spent his morning by playing playstation in the room with yopi, yopi, while the astrid was relaxing enjoying the massage chair in front of the television.Riana's mother and her husband were not at home.they went out of town since dawn using the train.
