Way of Life (Ch 1 - Midnight Prayer)

‘So this is the city I destined, Niert…!’ that boy walked through the airport into a small cab. The road was very crowded. The skies were orange showing that the sun was almost sleeping. Every people yelled about something that the kid was really hard to understand. He was really in a city with different languages and also different cultures.

A long the way to his new home with new parents were really excited him. The cab driver was talking about a lot of things all the way. But because of that, he learnt a little about this new city and also his new home. But it would be very hard for him to think right now.

Back to the past, in his homeland, there was a boy prayed all night without knowing what he had been praying for. From people eyes, that kid should have lived happily with a good family. But behind that scene, who knows? J

‘Weird isn’t it? Life is full of obstacles! Hey kiddo’, I heard your place was sunk. How could you survived?’ asked the cab driver.

That kid stared at him and glanced outside the window, ‘That’s life man. Don’t you realize it? It means, that was just not my time. He knows what he was doing to me. It really means something…’

‘Huh! Kids nowadays, think well please! This is real world boy, and there’s nothing that such things in this world. People have to be mature by it’s own decision. Maybe your decision to sleep at the cupboard was right that time. I think it’s just lucky though J’

That kid smiled, then he asked to stop the cab in the intersection. ‘Yeah maybe it’s just lucky. But not lucky because I’m a lucky boy. It’s lucky because ‘THEY’ told me to do that. Nice to meet you old man, someday you’ll find your own answered.’ After that, he walked into the crowded.

The cab driver looked a bit confused. He thought for a while and kept watching on that kid. ‘He really is something…! God, did you send him to me? But why on that child? I don’t understand… Is it my time? I’m old enough to die, but seeing that child make me felt guilty for what I’ve done for my whole life.’

Meaning of life? What’s the meaning of life if we lived in the world that we don’t really care and we don’t really adore?

A year had passed and there was nothing changed in Niert, even the cab driver. He was still alive and it looked like that he still tried to find the answer of his life.

Back to the airport, today he picked up another boy, ‘Hey kiddo’, why are you so sad?’

‘Glad for you old man. You have old enough to work. But me? I’ve to school here and my parents were very strict. If only I had something in my life, it won’t be happened.’

The cab driver was startled with those words. He then remembered a year ago, about his conservation with the kid who had the same age with the kid behind him right now. In his heart, ‘Find my own answered? I was like that before… I don’t like to school, I just wanted to be mature and started to work. But what I found was this. I’m angry to God and started to forget about His presence.’

‘Hey kiddo’, don’t think like that. There should be a lot of things to do. I know your feeling, but life is hard, it’s even harder than you ever imagine. Here, in this town, you should find a boy who was a year older than you. Trust me that he can lead you to your own path. Hard to find that boy, but he was the only survivor of Terra Sunker a year ago.’

After the kid thanked him, the cab driver drove away. He had a lot of things in his mind. ‘Why the God punish me to become a cab driver who has nothing? Why should I live? I lived for nothing! What’s the fate lies within me?’

Few years had gone. That cab driver was really old right now, but he still believed in his fate as a cab driver. He won’t stop until he found a way to know the truth about his presence.

‘Hey old man! We meet again!’ yelled a boy he met before.

When that cab driver saw him, he couldn’t believe about what he saw. The boy, who was looked very sad, but now he looked very contented. ‘W… What happened to you kiddo’? How come you change only in a few years?’

‘Thanks to you I found that boy. Now I understand about my presence. I learnt something from him, and it was him who taught me to be like myself. By the way, I’ve to go now! See ya, old man!’