story between the rainfall

Toba's lake

"courage is egoism of a human which settle in our heart, and if it balance with logic then courage will become what we are which live in our self will without others"

     This is my others journey on the exploring other side of Indonesia, and this time I went to Padang Sidimpuan, South Tapanuli, North Sumatera. I want to shared this story because inside I found many thing new and also in this trip it was a challenging trip between life and death and also new lesson for me.

     My journey to this place is using a commercial plane from Jakarta to Medan and continued by a small plane to Aek Godang airport - South Tapanuli. On the way to Aek Godang airport I was crossing Toba lake, and it was a wonderful view I ever met from the top and made me realize how beautiful is our earth.

I'm staying at one of Hotel at Padang Sidimpuan to take a rest before the next day which is a long journey to climb one of mountain around South Tapanuli. The next day at the dawn I'd start my climbing with six others, which is my self and the others was a local civil as my porter and my path direction.

     After two hours we were climb for the first hill, one of civilian is gave up and to tired to continued the journey so he we decided to sent him back to the village, so only five of us who continued the climbing. (because a certain reason I don't need to mention the name of the mountain because this is not a story a bout the mountain. this is the story of my experience... okay dude?!).

The river

     Five hours after we're climb and pass the first hill (my GPS in showed that we have been walked for 10 kilometers) I found a river which it very clear and a lot of fish there, so we're decided to stop and fishing to get a lunch. well coffee is still the main course for us to help us getting  new energy for the next climb, because one of my porter said after the river we'll meet a heavy route which has tilt about 40-60 degrees, the route also will not easy to climb because it's very green and many huge tree, bush and a swamp that we must pass through.

   

Fish we catch

One of my porter also said that at the river is the last placed that phone signal available, so he suggest me to contact someone or someone that I loved, he said that inside of the forest we'll never know what is going to happen with us because this forest is a green area which inside of it there's many wild animal, he mention the Sumatran Tigers, Bears, and animal likes rhino but it's not rhino, it very dangerous if it met us because the saliva was an acid who will melt or destroyed if the animal spit on it plus thousand leech which hungry of human blood. He also mentioned a primitive people called "Lesso" which is an original occupant of the jungle who can made people lost in that forest with the magic.

I was so shocked listened of all what we're faced in front, but I have no others choice and kept move on, considering how dangerous thing we'll meet at the jungle so I took my cell phone even I didn't know who I should contact.

Misty forest in the morning

     On the top of the second hill which is about 20 kilometers according to my GPS, we're shocked because we're found a house in the middle of a jungle and a real man I meant man in our kind. After we had a little chat and describe what is our purpose then we decided to stay at his place because it already 06.00 pm. There's no lamp there only a bright view of the sky and many animal sound which heard from the distance.

     After one hours we're took a rest at his cottage, the sky was getting dark and the rain was drop heavily. I was wander why a man like him is stayed at a place of no where, then it became a conversation between us, He was at my ages around 30th years old and he told me a story why he decided to stay at that place.

Five years ago he was stayed at Medan city, the capital city of North Sumatra, He also graduated from a famous college there, he was staying alone there because his parent is already died. When he graduated from the college he was met a girl which after he was think that she was a real mate for him. so he was fully struggling to get what he loved and also to get his heart happiness, but the girl was never loved him, for almost two years he was struggle and struggle to get her attention and hoping that she will loved him, but that's not the fact, the girl was in loved with somebody else.
He believed that the love that he felt is true and pure, so he kept it even he only stare from the distance and kept the feeling inside Every day he prayed in purpose that God will shown the ways but till the days his heart more and more believed that it was a true love even he can't belonging her as a mate.

      He kept that heart and always tried the best thing that he can't do to get her love, but at the second years the girl was died at a car accident which her boyfriend.

Rainbow in the evening

That time he was very depressed and stressful because he lost his love, almost everyday he came to her grave to said that he loved that girl truly and un conditionaly. but then he was thought it a wasting time and too late so he decide to search a new place for being alone and make his love feeling immortal, he don't wanna grow his love feeling to another woman. he choose this jungle to lived and made his love buried around the forest.
I asked why he choose a forest to made it eternal meantime it can do at the city, because it just about a heart and his heart, I'd also said that is the same with suicide and a foolish thing because it torture our self with the loneliness. He answered if he lived at the city where he can met other people, the future maybe will different, maybe as time goes he will meet the other girl and start to forget the former love, and he didn't want it happens.

[listened that answered... what I'm doing is just kept my silence.....and thought, what is really true love? is it releasing or kept the love till we die?!! so i guess that was a matter a principal]. but the confused thing is he also said that love also releasing but in other way true love also is a true sincerity between us and our heart, he said with his decision to stayed at that place it not called torture or a suicide but it the way of life, because he also believe that mate is in the hands of God, so he was thinking if God send a mate for him then some other time maybe it will be came by it self to this jungle or along his journey of life, so before that time is came he was planned to kept his love to the former girl. [confused...right]

That night the rain drop very heavily and I couldn't slept because thing that we're discussed that night. 

     I was slept only for two hours and prepared for the next climb to the third hill. we're carrying what only we needed for the climb and the rest is leaved at that man place. because we're planned after we get back the climb we're gonna stayed at his place again.

me and my coffee

     The days was rain and we kept to continued the climbing because we have a limited time to finished the journey so in the middle of the rain we're started to climb the valley with using a rope because the route was very slippery which full by the rocks around and un stabilize soil which can cause land slide in every step we'd take. we're climbed to the top of the hill with many risk and what I'm doing is surrender my self to God because every single time is valuable for me to get on top immediately, the rain can caused land slide and flood, so it was a big risk we got. The rock are fragile and it's huge on the top of the hill and it can be slide anytime. but thank God finally we made it standing on the top of the hill which I thought I've finished climb it, but it didn't... in front of us more wall to climb and it's higher than before, i watched my back is a deep cliff and in front of me is a high wall...

"Here I'm now, standing between life and death

surrender to All Mighty with my last power to move forward

dancing with my own rain

facing my path forward a high wall to climb, where I'd put my hope on it

and when I look backward, it full of sorrow as deep of the cliff

remembering all my sin which I have been through

remembering love which gave me courage and also a fear"

     

     With the rest of all my power, then we're climb that wall. and we made it even when I climb to that wall my cell phone and my compass was dropped. but yes we made it to stay alive and finished our climb. but it hasn't stopped because we're worried to came back because my compass is dropped also my GPS which suddenly didn't work. I was thinking that we're gonna lost at the jungle.

     The rain still fall heavily, my porter said that we must get down soon before the flood is came. So we're moving fast and running with the time, even we're didn't have any direction, we're moved forward following the wind. The time is already 07.00 pm and it's very dark, we're kept moving without the light. four hours we moved, our guidance that time only a sound which made by a man who lived at where we're stay, he made a voice very loud and it sound like a whisperer for us to follow that voice. Eight hours we're walking and finally we're made it to reach that man cottage. 

     That man said to me, he made that sound to scared all the animals and a thing that we didn't knew inside of the forest, and also he said to me that inside of me, there's a love which I haven't expressed and that's which helping me to get out from the wild forest. [is it true???............. well I never knew it].

Toba's Lake

well that's my experience for the last weekend! I'm learn many thing inside.
It not shown the way to loving or follow the man to kept the love feeling and buried it someplace but the point is, love is a soul for us also a spirit for us even sometime it get tricky and a beautiful lie.
then....
when you're saw you're self in between, you're able to look what is deep inside of you and what is the regretful thing that you ever done.

but that's all only one of love story in this world which we never predict and describe... still be a confused thing!

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