[EF#23 Weekly Challenge] If I Mudik

A few days ago, my partner gave a leave form for employees. Most of my partners filled out the form with the start date and end date of leave that they would take. Some of them take leave before the feast. Some of them take time off after the feast. And the rest take time off before and after the feast if they still have a lot of leftover leave. My partners who took leave will go to their hometown. Mudik. For this feast, I did not fill out the leave form.

“Mudik, Mas?” The question was once asked of me.

“I mudik everyday. My hometown in Jakarta.” It was my answer.

“I will go home to Sukabumi!” It was my answer too.

If I answer with the second type, then there will be another next question. “Your hoetown in Sukabumi, West Java?”

“No, but Sukabumi Selatan, Kebon Jeruk, West Jakarta!” I answered the question with a laugh.
I was born, grew, and worked in the same area, Jakarta. All my family leave in Jakarta. Unless one of my sister who is currently staying in Kendal, Central Java.

Mudik, in my opinion, only known in Indonesia. I’ve never heard of a similar activity in other countries. If one time I mudik like my partners did, there are some conditions that I want in the mudik journey.

I want my luggage is not much. If there are souvenirs for relatives in my hometown, I wanted them are sent through a courier service. So my trip will not have many obstacles. I will not lift and carry them in my journey.

I want to go home quickly. I’ll get on a plane. It will more expensive, but it is fine. So I have to save some money to buy plane ticket.

“We all will go home. The differences are the time and the provision.”

I had read the sentences that appeared in the show on television a few years ago. They are reminded that all human beings in this world will definitely go home, return to the place where they came. The world is just a stopover place, where the occupant and it is not possible to stay eternally.

Hopefully, when the time comes I am going home, I’ve had enough provision to take a trip to the land of eternal named paradise safely and quickly. Amen!

—– For EF#23 – Mudik Preparation —–

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