The Present Or Future

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"Some people enjoy life without knowing its true purpose. Then the rest is busy looking for what the purpose of life is without having time to enjoy life itself"

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In the morning, in early spring, a young boy wakes up from his nightmares. He then held one of his eyes with his right hand

"Huh, I seem to cry when I dream"

He then glanced across the room in his room. In his room contained neatly arranged cardboard on the edge of the room. No exception cardboard on his right, more precisely in front of his wardrobe that he just saw

He then got up and walked towards the cardboard, lifted it up and saw the writing on the cardboard that read his name

"Haru Nakagawa!? Wait a minute, if this cardboard is here, it means it's my clothes, right? I should have cleaned it up! Or maybe you did it, huh?"

He walked to his father's room, and found his father was cleaning up the rest of his belongings

"Hey dad, did you take care of all my clothes?" Ask Haru

His father turned towards him and he answered him excitedly, "hehe, that is. I originally wanted to wake you up, but all I saw was that you were fast asleep, so I felt bad to wake you up"

Haru then responded by saying, "this father is just like everyone else. Is it really the car that brought our stuff will come faster as you said yesterday?"

"Well that's how it is, so inevitably we have to clean up all this stuff". Answer his father

"Then, is there anything I can help you with? Looks like there's still some stuff you haven't finished"

"Ah, I appreciate your help but take it easy, it's not so hard. The car will be here at about ten in the morning, so we're not in a hurry. I finished everything last night"

Haru then looked at his smartwatch that was on his left wrist. The clock is seen showing eight o'clock past sixteen minutes. So as his father had said, they didn't have to be too rushed

Haru once again offered himself, "then I'll go to the supermarket to buy the ingredients for us to eat breakfast"

"Ah, what a great idea! Incidentally, my stomach had started to feel hungry as well. Then please cooperate!" replied his father excitedly

Haru then left his father who was cleaning the rest of the goods. Refreshing his face, then he headed to the supermarket as he said while exercising early in the morning on foot

On his way, he then thought about himself that last night it was difficult to fall asleep if tomorrow were important days like today. Because of the difficulty of his sleep, he became too worried about his future. Especially if Haru is the first child and he is the only hope for his father

Surely he did not want to disappoint his father, but on the other hand, until now he has not found his talent that he thinks can be used for his future. This worry is not the first time for Haru. For months he has always been haunted by these concerns. Of course, he has done whatever he can, including drawing, video editing, programmers, or content creators. And everything just becomes useless

Haru sometimes feels jealous of some of his socmed friends who have their own talents. When he saw that, Haru always said to himself, "can I be them?", "Am I unlucky?, or "does I have such talent?" And of course there are many more that make the spirit of Haru become down

During this time, only his father had financed Haru until now. Haru who is now not a child anymore, and according to him he could have worked to relieve the costs incurred by his father. This he had talked to his father, unfortunately his father refused his request

According to his father, money is the problem. While Haru's job is to learn as best as possible in order to get a job that may be better than his father. Of course Haru did not oppose his father's response, although he was disappointed with the answer. But as his son, he received it with a chest

Given all that, Haru was unaware that he had already arrived at the supermarket. For breakfast this time, all Haru thought about was omerice. Foods that are not too complicated, but at least can be filling in a long time. Moreover, the two of them would make a journey that took quite some time

After shopping for the materials he needed, he returned to his home. Unlike the previous one, he did not think too much first. He prefers to focus on his footsteps while doing small runs to his home

After everything was ready, Haru called his father who was certainly still busy with packing his things. Coming out of his room with dust that was almost all over his palm, he only came out of his room confidently while washing his hands first before eating his breakfast with his son

"Mmm, it looks like the food this time looks more delicious than usual" his father said as he sat before his son

"Isn't it the same as usual? Maybe because today is the last day we eat in this small house, so the food this time looks like different" Haru replied

"Haha, you're right, son! For years we both lived in this humble place. Finally we can also move" Haru's father said as he looked around the room

Haru then continued the conversation again as they both ate the omurice that was on the small table. "Is it okay because we're going to move into a slightly bigger house, get you excited today dad?" Ask Haru

"Of course, right? Not only that, you know that I recently married another woman after almost five years on my own. How can you not be happy, if finally our family can come back complete"

Haru then recalled her father's marriage to her new mother that took place a few days ago. The show went well and was certainly quite lively too, although Haru had not seen the face of his new mother because Haru did not really like standing in the crowd, he preferred to be in the back row and therefore he did not have time to see his parents standing in front of the crowd

A few hours later the freight car finally arrived, the two of them were also ready. And as Haru told his father last night, Haru chose to take the train to his destination city because the freight car only provided two seats

Haru helps to lift the things that are in his house. And when everything was ready, his father with a freight car left first. While Haru made sure that no more items were left behind

Before leaving, Haru paid his last respects to the small house that had accompanied him for almost five years by bowing his head right at his door, thanking him. Although Haru felt that it would look silly if others saw it like that, but for him this house is one of the houses that Haru will not forget

Heading to a new city, of course, there will be many experiences that Haru will get. Whether you like it or it's hard or happy. Haru is getting excited by the new story that will await him