---- Imbalance triangle on April 20 ----
Forty eight years ago, on April 20, 1958 was born the greatest woman in the world, especially in my life. She was born in Klaten, Central Java. She grew up in a farmer family, started her rules at six years old and spent childhood time to support her financial family by doing any good thing she could. At the dawn of a time, she had to wake up and went to the rice field, just to accompany her family to plant some paddy or fertilize corn.
That was her activities around 6 years until she decided to join in public school. But poverty forced her to stop studying and went back to the rice field for surviving. Yet, the spirit never dies, her brother-in-law had to fight so hard to earn a plenty of money to support his sister to continue her study until she reached her second class of junior high school. Indeed she never finished her senior high school yet.
Extremely, for me, her formal education title is so contradictive with her explicit one. For example, I always thought that she could manage her family’s financial very well though she didn’t reach under graduate school. Perhaps, she’s even better than ordinary women who hold degree in economics but failed to prove their knowledge on their life. Great and Grateful to Allah, The Nourisher.
Alhamdulillah in 2009, two of her children had already finished their study. One of them took the title in Gajah Mada University for computer science while another one took financial management economics in Sriwijaya University. Gratitude for Allah, today both of her children have already worked. She is the greatest woman in my life, she is my mom and she was born on April 20. It is the root why I said April 20 is my special day.
The Second special on April 20.
My name is Budi, I was born by the greatest woman on April 8, 1987. I spent my childhood in Palembang, South Sumatera. I finished my kindergarten and elementary school at Madrasah Qur’aniah 1 Palembang. That place taught me not only science but also spiritual aspect. Big thanks to Allah as a guide of life and my family who drove me to join that school.
After finishing my elementary school, I continued my formal education at Junior High School Number 6 and then Senior High School Number 15. Least but not less, I sent graceful for The Almighty, I am as an ordinary person can be received in public university, with my first option is financial management in Economics Faculty of Sriwijaya University. On the third semester I persisted that I didn’t want to be an “empty scholar” because it was full enough in this country. I believe Allah will be the director in my life, so that was why I had to study hard to reach my destiny.
I took three and a half years to finish my college before I got scholarship from private company. The place that I am focusing right now and I’ve already promised with my self that I Insya Allah want to fulfill this contract till it finish. Coincidentally, the date I started work was April 20. It’s what I call the second special on April 20.
Day by day I discover this life and almost every time I listen to many people will ask about our life “Where will life bring you to? Probably most of us will answer “let it flow” but sometimes I want to leave it behind and run easily, but my dream often drives me to think hard how to finish what I’ve already started.
Hopefully on April 20 someday, I can create another great moment in my journey. I want to build perfect beautiful triangle for my whole life. The first and second of April 20 had been answered with my mom’s birthday party and the first day I worked. But the third April 20 is still mystery until The Expert of mystery will answer it. Actually I got used to creating a balance triangle but I didn’t know why I got slipped so that the triangle was broken.