Then my mom sat up to us, while sweating.
"Huufftt .. Hahh .. do you have lunch?" (Ask Mother to us)
"Not yet, we wait for mom back home, bad atmosphere if there is no mom" (answer me)
"Hhmm .. (With a smile) Okay, let's go in, I want to take a bath first, while it's the fig of food on the table" (Mother said)
"Well mom, I'll serve it" (My answer)
Then we went into the house, I bath while I serve food on the table. After my mom bathed, we ate lunch together. After lunch we took a nap.
Day began the evening, I woke up, I saw my mother's room, mother was not in the room, and I just remember that my mother went back to the faculty to clean up the faculty. And I went to bathe.
My mother came home from the faculty around 6 pm, she was carrying used bottles, for sale, and in the evening we went to the bottle sale and got only Rp.20.000, and that was enough to eat a day.
So every day we went together, but day after day I passed, I got bored with my activities like this, Registration in university was open, I want to continue to college, then one day I discussed to my mother.
"Mom, I want to register to college?" (I asked)
"Not that I'm not allowing you to go to college, I don't have much money" (replied my mother with sad face)
"But mom, how does our life continue like this?" (Answer me with my selfishness)
"Yes I understand, but how else, but I will try?" (My mother answered with a doubt)
"Are you serious?" (With a happy expression)
At night around 2 pm, I heard the sound of crying, at first I was frightened but impossible, the voice was heard from the mother's room, with fear and daring, I slowly walk to the mother's room, and peep, it turns out my mother was praying night (Tahajud Prayer) he cried, and I heard him say "Oh God, help me to realize the dream of a son of a servant who wants to go to college, strive my provision, give me a way to be able to lecture him in university".I feel so sad, why am I so selfish? Why do not I think, my family circumstances like this? Why my selfishness does not go away? Hiks .. hikss .. hikss .. (my tears fall like a very heavy rain) and mother hear me crying.
"Who's there?" (Said the mother with a shock)
"I'm ara, mom." (Then I walked over and hugged my mother)
"What's up, why not sleep?" (Ask the mother while wiping her tears)
"I was already sleeping mom, but I heard the sound of crying, I was afraid and I went to my mother's room, it sounds mother's voice, bu I'm sorry, I'm not forcing you to lecture me, sorry with selfishness mom"
"I will try for your future dear, do not follow the footsteps of mothers who only sweepers, chase your dreams, mothers will try to find another way to get the money" (Mother replied with confidence)
"I'm so sorry, I've troubled you, I promise to be seriously undergoing this lecture, I love you" (while embracing my mother, and my tears are continuously falling)
"Well dear, go back to sleep" (Send my mother)
"I want to sleep with you tonight" (I replied)
"Haha .. you're big, still sleeping with me? Let's sleep, (said my mother)
3 days passed, as we usually do every day. However, my mother came home earlier than usual. With my puzzled face asking ..
"Mom? Why go home early? "(I ask with confusion)
"Mother do not work today, I would talk to you for a while dear?" (Answer mother with happy face)
"What are you talking about, mom seems so happy today" (I asked)
"Yes dear, I have got the money for your college" (while sitting)
"Really mom?" (My answer with surprise)
"Yeah, this is the money , let me to save it, okay" (said my mom)
"Alhamdulillah, okay mom" (I replied with pleasure)
One day I went to register in a university and took an exam, and I have pass at the university, I started to study the next week. Then I thank you for my mother's struggle. But I'm still confused from where the mother can be that much money. Then I went to the mother who was burning garbage.
"Mom, can we sit down for a while" (I said)
"Yes of course, what is it?" (Ask mom)
"I have pass at the university mom" (I say with pleasure)
"Thank goodness dear" (Reply mother with a happy feeling too)
"But mom .. where did you get that much money?" (I asked with a puzzled face)
"Actually, I during this time saving , I did not tell anyone" (Mother's answer)
"Really mom? for what save the money?? "(I asked again)
"I wants to raise money for the hajj, but it's okay, for sake your future, I willing to give the money to you" (Mother's answer)
"OMG, why do not you tell me" (with annoyance, sadness and self-blame)
"It's okay, achieve your dreams, your future is still long" (Said mother)
(I bow to my mother's knee, and I thank her)
"Thank you for all your sacrifices, I love you very much" (while kissing my mother's hand and kissing my mom's cheek)
"Yes dear" (Answer my mother with a smile while shedding tears)
And finally I enter the lecture, and run it until the next graduation.
MORAL MESSAGE: Be thankful for what God has given, and do not be a selfish person, be grateful, especially grateful that you are born from rich parents, all can be realized, for someone like Zahra so grateful to have been given a mother very remarkable like Bude Surkasih.