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Time by time, year by year, Amat grew up and became a
teenager. He always helped her mother with effort he could do. Still, how hard
he had tried to work, he still lived in a poverty.
Kruen Raya is a river where there was a harbor at that time.
People used to send things from Aceh to another place there. Also, imported
goods passed this harbor before they were taken to the place where they were
going to use or sell. Aceh merchant was already big at that time. There were
lot merchant ship sailing and docking in the harbor every day. The crowds were
always seen in the harbor. Hundreds of boxes were being loaded and unloaded.
By the time a ship would sail, many paddle were moving in the
side of the ship. The paddles were moved from the inside of the ship. As the
movement of the paddles got faster, the speed of the ship would be too. As the
ship started to leave the harbor, many people that were the family of the
ship’s crews would stand in the harbor waving their hands. Such a touching
moment it was that many of them would ended up crying. They know that
everything could happened when sailing, even the worst one like the ship sank
and all the crews died.
When a ship docked in the harbor, many people would wave
their hand to welcome their people that had been away from home to sail in the
sea. Laughter and happiness filled the air as they meet the ones that had been
missed for long time.
Almost
every day Amat and his friends would come to the harbor, they usually wanted to
see the docking ship. They also frequently saw something that they thought to
be weird. Soon, as they saw that, they would tell to their friend in the
village. Besides that, they are also fond
and admired the merchants they often saw in the harbor. They admired how they
looked like, how good clothes they wore every day. Kind of clothes they had
never had neither had they worn in their life. They really wanted to be like
them, to have a better life.
Amat then, wanted also to be helmsman. He believed by being a
helmsman he could change his and his mother’s life. Though he really wanted to
be a helmsman, never had he told it anyone including his mother.
Because
of that, he can barely sleep soundly in the night. Every time he was lying on
the bed, he would think of being a helms man and it would keep his eyes open
for almost all night. He imagined how he would sail a wide sea and also visited
another country. He also imagined how his mother would miss him after being
away for months. He would buy something for his mother at home. Something that
was really special that had never been possessed by his mother before.
One day, when the night almost came, rain fell hard and it
made Amat not able to come to Meunasah to recite Al-Quran. He couldn’t recite
and sleep in the meunasah like he usually did before. That night, Amat decided
to sleep at home. As usual, Amat couldn’t sleep because he was thinking about
his future. While his eyes wide opened, Amat looked at his mother that was
already sleeping besides him. He could see how his mother’s face looked tires,
and also she looked older that her actual age.
It reminded him to the time when he was a child. He
remembered that his mother would tell him a story before he slept. He also
remembered of his father that has passed away. He also remembered a good time
he spent with his father and it made him smile. All memories he had was running
over his mind tonight.
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