Story of Rantau Man

Wind from a Fan made temperature around giving soothe to my body. Voice of frogs like music instrument that make me feeling really peace. This laptop has staying on around 18 hours. I put my Book Everywhere in my room, it looks untidy and show that i study much. So long time i siting here to write what i thinking about. In this small room, I live so far from My Hometown. Like many other students, they Left their Hometown, far away from their parent, far from their family. They left their sweet home only for one reason. for  Education. First i wanna explain what does words Rantau mean?  Word Rantau become famous because culture from people of Minang (an Ethnic group in Indonesia) that when the young people of Minang people grow and become Adult, they should left their Hometown to another place, many of them will back to their hometown after become success Man depend on their perspective. So the word Merantau spread in Indonesia.  Every Indonesian who left their Hometown called Merantau and I call them "Rantau Man" in this post :D

 Memory about that moment still strong in my mind when the first time i left my hometown to study in another town. There r mirror on our eyes because of tears. My parent let me went like i will go for long time. What make me feeling good that My Father always pick me and drop me to airport when i back to My Town. I known at that moment, they heart full of hope that i will get better education also become a success man. So they will be proud that have a son like me.

i should face so long and hard way to be success. Education is the best way to bring us to be useful in this world. To bring us have better life like our parent's hope. I know many success man didn’t has good education, Even Bill gates and Mark Zuckerberg drop out from their University for focus to do what their really want to do and become the most success man in the world. But I always believe that education will help me to reach my dream and Ofc also by work hard. I am a man who believes with dream that make me keep my spirit every day. Actually the words “dream” not really good to say what I really want. Because word dream is identically for something is not real. But my dream is different. It’s something will be real, by God will. Every dream will be real. Poor, plebeian, unknown, lonely and ugly man like me will die without big dream. ahaha

A wise Man said "it's not depend how big ur dream but about how long u can survive to keep ur dream, to keep ur spirit to reach it". Every day, we pass one step to get our dream. Yeah, we as a young Man should choose hard way to be strong. The way that will bring us to our Big Dream. Like story of a man and a Butterfly. Someone find a cocoon of butterfly on a leave. He sits and looks at the butterfly for hours when the butterfly tries hard to pass a small hole to out and free from his cocoon. The butterfly looks tired and can’t do more far. Finally the Man made a decision to help the butterfly. He took a scissor and made the hole bigger, so that the butterfly can go out easy from the cocoon. After He did it, the butterfly can go out Easy. But He realizes there is something strange with the Butterfly. He has fat body and small, his wings look shrinking. He still observes to the butterfly for an hours and hope that condition will change. He hopes the wings will become wide and can make him fly. But what the Boy expects for the butterfly is never happen. The butterfly passes the rest if his life by walking around with his fat body and his Shrink wings, the butterfly also never fly. What the Man don’t understand by his help that hard way which the young butterfly should pass is the way of God to force the liquid from the body of the butterfly into the wings so that the butterfly ready to fly after he go out from the cocoon. It naturally the process what butterfly should pass. Few time of hardest the butterfly should pass can make him happy for long time. Like Qs Al-Baqarah  Chapter 2 verse 216 in Qur'an “…But perhaps you hate a thing and it is good for you; and perhaps you love a thing and it is bad for you. And Allah knows, while you know not”.

Many hard thing Rantau Man should to face. We should manage our money. it weird when u sick because u didn't eat good enough or healthy food and u also sick when u lost much ur money because u spend too much ur money for buy expensive food. I really want to work part time since i start study in University, but by Mercy of Allah I didn't need to work Because Scholarship I got from Mayor of Bengkulu city. It’s enough to afford 2 years of my time in University. Even i can buy a nice motorcycle by that Scholarship. I can't work part time for serve all i need because different program i studying in university. University didn't allow us to work. The lecturer always remind us to don't work every new semester begin, if they know we work, they will put us in normal program, it was the lecturer always said in every semester begun. However sometimes we still working for teach in Course or join in a small project that didn't disturb our study. ahaha Human kind like to broke the rule.  As a Rantau Man, We should not sick, if we sick our family can’t help us because they r far away. It's really sad when u r sick and u just alone. U Should take care of ur self, Lucky i have many Good friend here that help me when i got sick T_T Keep Spirit For All Rantau Man There is always easy thing come after Hard thing (Qs Asy-Syarh chapter 94 verse 5-6 said "5. So Verily with every difficult, there is relief; 6. Verily, with every difficult there is relief") Just Remember story of butter fly i told u before, few time of hardest we should pass can make us happy more long time in this worldly life.

I want to tell for all people who want to be Rantau Man,, Especially whoever wanna go to Jakarta or places around Jakarta like Depok, Bekasi, tanggerang or Bogor . Many thing what we expect about Capital city is really different in fact. Really different from what we Imagine when we r in our hometown. There is a lot of traffic jam here, its spread everywhere. So suck condition of public transportation like Angkot, Bus and train when the morning and Evening. Full of People, even it over capacity when people go for work and go home from work. U never find it and never imagine it when u r in ur hometown, But I appreciate the train that become better for last 3 years. Believe me, what u imagines about capital city will break after few mounth u stay here. A lot of people come to Jakarta for work evry years. Population of Jakarta Increasing fast. Many people don't bring skill and education to work in Jakarta. So that hard for them to get Job than in the end, it forces them to be a homeless. Yeahhh, Really Sad fact about our capital City. When we look at around Jakarta, always there is poor place beside luxuries apartment. Not far from rich man, there is a really poor man live not far from them. Look at under bridge, there r people sleep there. they sleeping there because they don't have house. At the edge of river or raiway of train there is many people build house that illegal act for government. They making Jakarta looks more bad. But we should thanks to our government that worked hard to make Indonesia Better. Don't be only judges who only give comment and insulting our government Guys. because if we were them, I’m not sure we can't do what they done. Just do something positive to support our government to do their Job.

 

Back to first story. Keep spirit for All Rantau Man. make the separate with our family for study as the beginning effort to reach our dream. And imagine in every page of book we read, in every question we solve, in every test our teacher give, there is hope of our Mother and Father. There is hope from our family. Maybe they don't know what we r doing right now, what we do in our process during study. But they never stop pray for us and give what they have for us. giving all we need during study. Let's never stop to fight, never let our time pass away without meaning, without have something benefits for us and people around us. Start our day with light and spirit of our dream. Promise with our mother and father that when our back from study, we will bring knowledge, bring them about their dream, answer their pray become true. Let them one day will be proud as our parent and thanks to God that have a child like us. KEEP GOING AND NEVER QUIT, CUZZZZ THE WINNER IS NEVER QUIT :)