The Colorful Work World
Ch. 142 Towards the City P

For a few months my father was no longer with us. One of the figures who has always been with me from the time I was born until now. Now he has returned to the ground and will not rise again to the nature we are in today. We as creatures of the almighty can not be separated from the name of death. Because it is the closest thing to us. Wherever and whenever, we can experience this, without exception.

With the loss of one of the humans that I always see every day while at home. Now I'm experiencing a feeling that I rarely felt before.

Vacuous…

I feel like one of my insides is missing. This loss felt no pain, but made me feel a deep sense of longing when I remembered it. Because longing cannot be ventured except by meeting. But what power we can no longer meet the figure.

Even when it fails when approaching girls, there is no feeling of loss like this. This longing does not seem to go away as long as any time passes. It was only during the pilgrimage to the tomb that I was able to reduce this feeling of longing a little. There was no other way I could deal with this feeling as far as I knew. Remember to love your family as well as your parents, while they are still around. We will not know when our familiar friend named ‘death’ it will come near.

The current condition of the house is more or less the same as I feel. All the family members felt lost because the head of our family was no longer there. It is like a ship that has lost its captain. We lost our way and didn't know where to go

Since I'm the first kid, inevitably I should try to at least replace this vacant captain. The position should not be left empty for too long. It would be dangerous for a ship without a captain, could be shipwrecked by coral or waves in the ocean because no one gives the crew the right direction.

Right now the people in the house are me, Lamda, Yana, and also Mother. Arip himself is more often positioned in Jakarta because he has to do his job as an employee. This condition makes me grateful to not get a job. Kaerna I can find mom at home.

Unfortunately fate tested us again, our house that had just felt lonely when left by one of its residents. Soon we will experience the same. Losing one of his members again.

“Mother, I have to go to college soon. When will we find a contract?” Ask one of my sisters, Yana.

My sister is currently in college. But due to the pandemic situation, he also did lectures online. I thought he would still be doing school in this condition for a long time. Turns out my guess was wrong, next semester, he's already starting college offline as well.

Thanks to the pandemic conditions that have started to improve. With the number of vaccine programs and also the percentage of cases starting to fall. The campus where Yana is located decided to hold back the lecture offline. This is because there are some activities such as practicum that are very difficult if it has to be done online.

Hearing this, I immediately thought that our house would be quiet again when the only sister of this girl went to school. I wish I could stop him from going to accompany my mother. Unfortunately it is not possible to do, because the pursuit of education is also one of the important things that should not be missed.

Mom starts discussing with Yana about how the procedure for the contract search is for Yana. Because this is not the first experience one of the children of the mother will enter into the index. Arip and I went through the same thing in college. Unfortunately, the contract search this time without accompanied by the father.

The case of Yana is different, the mother is confused because from the city of C we go to the city of P where Yana lectures quite far. About 10 hours drive by 4-wheeled car. That's why we have to do careful planning so that everything can run smoothly. With a considerable distance, supplies and travel costs must be carefully prepared in advance.

Originally, we intended to go along with om Maman as usual. But pakde Tamo and Bude Weni offered us that they would also escort Yana to seek her contract. Maybe because they felt sorry to see Yana who had just lost her father, so they decided to protect our family as far as they could.

That's why we started planning a trip with them. When we leave for the city of P. There is news that makes us happy.

One of the cousins in Jogja is getting married soon.

Of course this news was spread to family groups until the information reached us who were in the city of C. It just so happened that my Cousin's wedding date was to match the date we were looking for Yanan's contract. That's why we had a plan for a long trip to do two activities.

Looking for Yana's contract and also attending a wedding in Jogja.

With this additional event, of course our initial plans that were going to the city of P were changed. Because we have to add the cost of travel to the city of Jogja after from the city of P.

In addition to cost, of course, time is also an important element that we must take into account. Because there are jobs we can't stay in for too long. After we started counting a lot, we decided to go for a week. Finished determining the time, the next we set how the procession of the trip we will go through later.

While continuing to exchange news with each other continuously, so that the plan we have made can run smoothly. There is no way we can let this plan fail and just be a discourse. Can cry later Yana if we do not go to the city of P to find a contract. Regular contact is always done, we have to make sure that Pakde and Bude will not experience a sudden change of plan.

We who are in the city of C also have to get ready with the work we have to finish before the departure time arrives. Especially mothers who are far–well have worked more days to immediately finish the job because it will take a rather long leave.

In the end, the time we left has come.

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