Proses berdiri, tegak, berjalan hingga Berlari...

Dalam dunia usaha (bisnis), tahap perintisan adalah bagian yang membutuhkan energi ekstra (semangat, tenaga, pikiran bahkan waktu). Namun demikian tahap inilah yang justru menentukan langkah-langkah dalam tahapan berikutnya. Tidak hanya dalam dunia usaha saja, dalam dunia nyata, misalnya seorang bayi setelah melalui masa tahapan tengkurap dan merangkak, dia akan berusaha berdiri tegak, sedikit demi sedikit belajar melangkah meski hanya 1 langkah terkadang itupun bukan 1 langkah yang sempurna. Apakah pernah kita melihat bayi itu bosan terus berhenti, besoknya lagi tidak mencoba? Kalo bosan, mungkin seorang bayi atau anak kecil juga merasakan hal itu tapi diam berhenti, hal tersebut jarang terjadi.

Berdiri tegak membutuhkan keseimbangan, bergerak, berjalan bahkan berlari merupakan bentuk usaha agar bisa seimbang. Adapun jatuh itu adalah resiko kecil yang membuat lebih bergairah untuk melanjutkan proses berjalan menuju titik akhir. Jadilah terampil karena kerja kerja kerja dan kerja, tapi harus kerja keras, tidak slogan saja bukti nol seperti banyak tokoh terkenal detik ini yang sedang pegang kendali. Menjadi lincah asyiknya adalah di prosesnya bukan sekedar hasil.

Bahkan kadang proses sampai menjadi lincah, terampil, berjalan dengan sempurna kadang sering diabadikan oleh orang tuanya. alasannya karena momen tersebut sungguh luar biasa, termasuk juga saya mengalami sendiri.

Di dalam dunia pendidikan, proses seorang pelajar dari belum tahu menjadi tahu, belum bisa menjadi bisa, belum lancar menjadi lancar, setiap individu memiliki variasi waktu yang berbeda tetapi yang jelas ada rentang waktu disana, terdapat sebuah proses yang berlangsung sampai indikator keberhasilan itu dimiliki.

Saat ini ketika memiliki negara dengan pemerintahan yang belum mampu mendongkrak geliat pertumbuhan ekonomi, kadang butuh bukti agar pemerintah sedang berproses memperbaiki keadaan yang tidak menguntungkan ini, merubah kedalam kondisi yang baik. tetapi ketika bukti yang diharapkan belum ada, bahkan itikad baik, usaha perubahan kearah tersebut tidak berjalan optimal, perlu pelatih (coach) agar si pelajar, agar si bayi, mengalami proses yang normal melakukan pembelajaran agar mampu berdiri tegak, berjalan dan berlari. Detik ini, jujur pemerintah yang ada, secara subjektif saya, belum berproses dengan baik, apakah karena kurang kapabel atau tidak sesuai dengan ahlinya, pandai tapi bukan di bidangnya, pintar tapi belum tepat di posisinya. Mungkin itulah hasil yang ada  sekarang. Kondisi ekonomi terpuruk masyarakat bawah terasa sangat jelas untuk detik ini. Halo kabar pemerintah?

Teori sederhana, yang berkualitas dialah, merekalah, yang memimpin, yang belum mampu, akan terlihat asli hanya memaksakan kehendak, ambisi, hasrat, tanpa pikiran bijak, hanya tamak dalam dada yang sudah penuh sesak.....penuh kehendak bukan untuk bangsa hanya golongannya saja, orang biasa, khalayak, kebanyakan, mudah merasakan kondisi sulit ini tanpa direkayasa...

Mendongeng, Ketrampilan Orangtua yang hampir dilupakan

Mungkin acara/kegiatan mendongeng orangtua (bapak/ ibu) dengan anaknya sekarang sudah tergantikan dengan adanya gadget teknologi canggih sekarang, namun ternyata kebiasaan ini memiliki nilai positif, salah satunya adalah membangun hubungan dari aspek psikologis antara si orangtua terhadap putra putrinya. Manfaat lain yang bisa diperoleh adalah menanamkan nilai moral dengan hikmah yang ada dalam dongeng atau cerita yang dibacakan/ diceritakan tersebut, tergantung dari pilihan judul dongeng yang akan digunakan menjadi bahan materinya, misalnya kisah 25 nabi/rasul, sahabat nabi, bahkan sampai hikayat ataupun dongeng, apalagi bangsa Indonesia ini memiliki khasanah cerita rakyat yang sangat beragam dan melimpah.

Nah, bagi anda yang sedang mempelajari writing (menulis) dalam Bahasa Inggris, dongeng atau cerita termasuk kedalam genre Narrative text. Jenis teks ini memiliki tujuan to entertain/ to amuse dengan menyisipkan pesan moral ataupun hikmah (moral value) dengan harapan ada penanaman nilai-nilai kehidupan untuk membentuk manusia yang berkepribadian/ berkarakter.

Berikut adalah contoh teks naratif:

The legend of Tangkuban Perahu (Sangkuriang)

Very long time ago in West Java, there lived a king, named Prabu Sungging Pabangkara. He was good ruler. He liked hunting in the forest very much.

In the forest, there lived she-pig, actually a cursed goddess. One day, she came out of her hiding place looking for water. There she saw a coconut shell filled with water. Expecting it to be a fresh water, she drank it, having no suspicious that it was king’s urine left there the day before when he went hunting. 

The consequence was very strange. She became pregnant. Few months later she gave birth to a very pretty girl. When the king was hunting again in the forest, he saw the girl and was attracted by her beauty. He took her to his place, and then he called her Dayang Sumbi and treated her as his own daughter. Time passed and Dayang Sumbi grew up into a beautiful girl. She was fond of weaving. 

One morning as she was weaving, her weaving spool flew out of the window to the field. Because she was very tired, she mumbled, whoever is willing to help me pick up the spool. I’ll treat her as my sister if she is a girl. If he is a man, I’ll treat him as my husband. These words were heard by a dog, called Tumang, actually cursed god too. He immediately picked up the spool and gave it to Dayang Sumbi. Seeing the dog had helped her, she fainted. The god had decided for her to undergo the fate. She became pregnant and a short time afterwards she gave birth to healthy strong son whom she called Sangkuriang.

Sangkuriang became a handsome young man, as time went by. Likes his grandfather, he was fond of hunting in the forest and Tumang was faithful friend when roaming the woods. He didn’t realize that Tumang was his father. One day, when the dog didn’t obey him to chase the pig, Sangkuriang was very angry and killed the dog and cut up his flesh into pieces and took it home to his mother. For a moment Dayang Sumbi was speechless and took a spool and flung it at him.

This left a scar on the spot. Then Dayang Sumbi sent him away. Sangkuriang left and wandered through the woods. He walked for years. Finally he returned to his native place, but did not recognize it any longer. At the end of a vast rice field, he noticed a house and saw a young girl sitting at her weaving-loom. He approached her and was charmed by her beauty. He was unaware that she was his own mother. Dayang Sumbi had been given eternal beauty by the gods which was why she looked young forever. She looked at him and noticing his good looks, she promised to marry him. 

They made plans for their wedding day, but one day she discovered the scar on his forehead. She knew that he was her own son who had come back to his village. She made an effort to make him understand that marriage between them was impossible, but Sangkuriang refused to accept it. She had an idea and aid to him “All right, you shall marry me if only you can dam up the citarum river and build a vessel all in one night.”

Sangkuriang agreed and started to work by using his magic powers and his praying to the gods for help. To prevent the marriage, before Sangkuriang finished his work, she stretched the red veil which covered her head over the eastern side of the plain. Through her magic powers, the red light spread over the landscape, giving the impression that the sun was rising and that time was up. Angrily, Sangkuriang kicked the vessel which was almost finished upside down. Sometimes later the vessel became the mountain of Tangkuban Perahu on the northern side of Bandung.

CHECKING YOUR UNDERSTANDING ABOUT STORY ABOVE

1.What does the text tell us about?

2.What is the type of the text above? Mention the generic structure of the text!

3.Where does the story take place?

4.Who was Raden Sungging Pebangkara?

5.What did Dayang Sumbi look like?
6. What is the purpose of the text above?
7. “She looked at him..” What does the underlined word refer to?

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