Assalamualaikum and Good day all..
Tuhan tolonglah sampaikan sejuta sayangku untuknya…Ku terus berjanji takkan khianati pintanya…
Ayah dengarlah betapa sesungguhnya ku mencintaimu…Kan kubuktikan ku mampu penuhi maumu…
The excerpt of that song kept echoing in my mind when I tramped to my hometown, and even when I was on my own solitude.. the song addressed to all fathers in the world and to my father as well.
As a good son I try to make a pride that goes to him, I know my father has a real fascination for the newest politic information happened in our country, so that i read a book authored by one of our president candidates, and I said to him : ‘’look daddy, this man is really good at writing, his writings indirectly teach me about what leadership is”. .. at that time, I hoped for a pride arising from his comments due to the fact that his son is reading a prestigious book. Then he remarked soberly : “Don’t you think he is campaigning, it is just a strategy to bolster his candidacy!!!” he left me in confusion, afterward I told my mother about the odd thing I had just had, and my mother gave me a tentative smile, while saying : “my son, you need to know your father is a proponent of another candidates” .
That was the thing, but no matter what, I know my father always keeps on loving his family.
My father now is a 54-year-old father, he is a family man, both his blue-veined hands are the blatant witness going along with his struggles to support his family needs, and he had been in this way when my grandfather died almost 30 years ago, my grandfather didn’t leave much properties that his descendants can living from. And as one of the older sons, my father was called to help his mother’s and his siblings’ live. Many things he did, and may be since then he became hardworking person, never does he stop from thinking what kinds of activities he can conduct in order to fulfill his responsibility, I would like to say that may be his principle is “the hardest thing to do in the world is doing nothing”. In the year of 1980s he would be happy whenever he saw his mother and his siblings , enjoyed the result of his hard-work, although it was just a little dinner for one night or a uniform school for his younger brothers and sisters. He loved to share to feel happy. Nowadays his happiness comes up when we all his children can get a better job to support our own life in the future so that it may evade us from the suffer he had ever had in the past. He once said to me : “I have a dream, I want to see you all get a proper job, or even if I can make you get it, I will make it.. I don’t want you to feel as I always feel as whole of my life.. so that please study as good as possible.. ”
One day I asked him a question : “Daddy, why did you do all the struggles and sacrifices to your family?” and then he answered : “That is what a man lives for.” I know somehow all the responsibilities he have are not easy to complete, sometimes at the balcony at our home I saw him pondering, and when I approached him and asked him what he was thinking about, he just said “nothing”. He could lie then, but the wrinkles on his forehead could not.
I am not who I am now without him, he is the one introducing me to English, he registered me to the one of English course institutions to learn English, he motivated me to study well at school and at home. And he supported all my plan to continue my school when I finished my senior high school, although I knew at that time he would not have enough money to let me enter university education, but with all ALLAH’s benevolent I was accepted in one of free of charge colleges, State College of Accounting.
Life is not as easy as we arrange, we need to survive with all the possible way we can make, and my father has already know the sweet and the sour in this life, he opens my insight about what actually life is, with all the obstacles I may face in the next coming days, only patience and submission to ALLAH which will help me to be in the direction I wish.
To my father in my hometown, I want to say my thanks and :
“Well, dad.. now you are already 54 years old.. may ALLAH.SWT always keeps you and guides you, i.. am proud to be your son, wish me luck to realize the dreams you have ever said, amin..”
Fellow Toastmasters..
Wassalamualaikum
Minggu, 15 Maret 2009
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