The Dimension of My Own
A piece of living meat

My dear: "Because you are here, I will give you a reward."

Law: "Gee.. I want revenge on us, Bang."

Date: "Hahaha.. Master Teacher is just there.. Time has to take revenge?"

Other: "Should.. An eye for an eye, a life for a life."

Grandpa: "Gee.."

Inyang: "Because you've been wayward, I'll reward you with a book of my own."

Hull: "Waduh.. I made books too, huh?"

Inyang: "Certainly.. Since writing is not my specialty, I will just read my book to you."

Law: "Gee.. You can too, Dad."

Grandfather: "If you may know.. What's the title, Master Teacher?"

Inyang: "Title.. A Bunch of Living Meat."

Grandpa: "Well."

Inyang: "This is a story of a man who was born unable to see, unable to hear, unable to speak, and unable to move. He himself did not even know where the wind would take him. He is alive but he can't do anything. His mother was a madman, who died shortly after giving birth to him.

A cold wind swept through the city streets. Slowly, the body of the mad woman who had just given birth, began to be buried by piles of garbage. Suddenly, the clouds began to cry. The drizzle began to wet the people who ran small. A dirty dog screamed loudly near the child who was buried by the garbage. Until finally, making a drunk man who was on the second floor of the slum was furious. He then opened the window even though he was just throwing insults at the dog.

"Go you!! Stupid dog!!!"

Without hesitation, he deliberately threw a bottle of liquor that only a little left in the direction of the dog. But what happened made him confused. The throw revealed a hand lying behind a pile of garbage. He suddenly realized from his drunkenness when his brain had just concluded that behind the pile of garbage there was a corpse.

The sound of police sirens gushed into every corner of the slum. Seeing signs of life, the officers quickly evacuated the child. Those present were seen whispering to each other as they witnessed a truth before them. I don't know what kind of luck was forced upon that human child. Just on the day of his birth, apparently the government has just passed a revision of health laws in the country. Then, the luck continued with the consideration of the hospital code of conduct in which the child was found. Until finally the child who just lost his mother was treated in the hospital with all the burden of the cost borne by health agencies in the country. The patient was later given a name... Little jacob.

The seasons change and time moves non-stop. Second by second had passed, hour by hour had passed, day by day had passed, month after month had passed, year after year had passed. This time little Jacob had grown up. But still, the condition is still like that. It's the same as it was since he was born. Jacob just kept lying down and couldn't do anything.

One dim afternoon, the doctors and hospital staff held a discussion about the medical condition of their patients who had not been cured for a long time. Until finally the doctors and hospital staff immediately bowed lethargic with the difficult decision they had just taken. They've done their best to inject Jacob to death. Hearing the decision, the nurses who always took the time to talk to Jacob at that moment also cried bitterly.

The promised day has arrived, where the doctors gather to watch the process of lethal injection to be done to a piece of live meat. Shortly before the injection stuck into Jacob's body, the monitor made a loud noise. Seen from the monitoring shows an unusual change in conditions for Jacob. Those present instantly focused their eyes towards the monitor. The doctors then took time to re-discuss what kind of follow-up they should do.

By returning to his determination, the doctors have confirmed his decision to resume lethal injection against Jacob. But again and again, the monitor again sounded when the doctor was about to stick the syringe to the helpless body. Instantly, those present in the room became silent in daydreams. They felt they had committed a fatal mistake against Jacob. They returned to the discussion and unanimously canceled the mistake they had made.

After a few days since the incident, the doctor who handled Jacob looked pensive to see Jacob who could only lie in his bed. From that silence came a light that shone upon his innermost thoughts. The doctor began to write a book about his patient. In the book, the doctor provides various kinds of information about Jacob. Starting from his birth story, medical records, his daily life, and others. Until finally the book of the doctor's work sold well in the market and won an award in the field of health.

This time, Jacob who could only lie down and could not do anything was getting royalties from the award prizes and the sale of the book. Jacob was finally able to pay for his medical and treatment costs that never paid off after a long time in the hospital. Even the doctors discussed and advised Jacob to immediately be moved from the usual room to the VVIP room thanks to the royalties he got.

The atmosphere of the hospital looks much different than it usually is. They all become very busy due to the large number of visits of people from different parts of the world. And also some others even took the time to seek treatment at the hospital, which is a separate advantage for the hospital.

Those who come to visit the hospital with the aim of nothing but to give a salute to the main character of the book they have read. Jacob is even told in various print and electronic media, so that all over the country it is almost certain that no one does not know him.

The construction of the hospital has accelerated with the help of the government. This time the hospital was awarded the title of hospital with the most complete facilities and the best handling on the continent.

Time continued to pass, the development of medical science increased so rapidly. The doctors at the hospital regrouped to discuss Jacob. They plan to give Jacob a child. But they are constrained by how to find a donor uterus that will be a place for the fertilization process later. One of the nurses who usually always took care of Jacob, willingly volunteered himself for the incident.

"With the will of the heart.. I'm willing, doctor."

On the promised day, the doctors then began to perform surgery to remove certain elements from Jacob's bone and then examine them in the laboratory.

Shortly after the birth of Joseph's baby, for several days the doctors continued to be preoccupied with the response shown from a monitor in Jacob's care room. They alternately observe and learn the responses that appear on the monitor.

Datuk, Law and Budi who heard the story can only be silent and pensive. Their bodies and souls are separated. Imagination had completely blurred their sight and deafened their hearing. They seem to be engrossed in the imagination they created themselves from the story of Inyang. Budi who stood leaning his body against the tree looks to be rolling the side of his head to the tree. Law was seen squatting on the ground while plucking small grasses nearby. And Datuk who was standing was seen stripping something on the ground with his feet. They were all completely dissolved by their own imaginations. Seeing that, Inyang then accelerated the plot of the story.

Time goes back by. This time, Jacob had already reached the age of twilight. His health condition gradually declined day by day. At this moment Joseph was sitting next to her in a nice and neat suit. Joseph smiled with sincerity to his father who was always lying and kept motionless. With tears in his eyes, Joseph began to speak to Jacob, his father.

"Dad.. Mom just died, Dad. Mom told me that she loved Dad very much. No matter what your circumstances, you'll always love me."

"Dad.. Now my grandson is in elementary school. My granddaughter said she wanted to be a doctor."

"Dad.. Thank you so much for living in this world."

At the end of the story Jacob who has died is seen being carried by his son to the burrow. The sound of haru's cry and the sorrowful gazes from his son-in-law and granddaughter broke the silence of the twilight scene.

It's over." End."

Inyang only smiled seeing the strange behavior of the three of them. After finishing the story, he began to feel drowsiness. Immediately Inyang left them and went inside his cottage to satisfy his drowsiness.

Budi looks slowly began to realize from the entanglement of his imagination. His eyes slowly became clearer and regained full control of himself. Seeing the existence of Inyang was no longer there, he decided to go home.

Budi: "Cough, Go home first." (Moving to leave Datuk and Law.)

Datuk looked at Budi with an empty gaze while continuing to strip the ground with his feet. And unexpectedly, Datuk and Law followed the direction of Budi's footsteps. They came down the stairs as if they were moving on their own.

Link, who saw Law had returned from above, immediately opened the car door for him. But Datuk then took off his head and then got into the car. Law is seen following Budi from behind. Link was only puzzled by the astonishment, until Datuk was finally struck by the coldness of the atmosphere in the car and then rushed outside to call Law.

Grandfather: "Sea..! The sea..!! Yeeee!! Here, heei!!" (Speaking Law.)

Hearing someone call his name, he finally began to wake up from his daydream.

Law: "Oh, yes.. Sorry, forgot.. (Right of himself.)

He immediately approached Datuk.

Law: "Sorry, Bang.. I was daydreaming. Ahaha.."

Date: "Sama.. Me either.. Ahaha.."

Law: "Father's story is spooky too, huh Bang? Ahaha.."

Grandpa: "Yes.. I'm just confused.. Ahaha.."

Law: "I was curious.. What would it be if the sound of the monitor was a form of an expression of anger or sadness, or what, right..?"

Grandpa: "I think so too.. Must be fucked up.. Haha..."

I laughed in silence. I am sad in silence.

I was disappointed in silence. I am happy in silence.

I was ashamed in silence. I was angry in silence.

Hide me in silence.