Jazz was played on the corner of the street that evening, he played a bass while he playing a song by Charles Mingus - Work song. The sound was very nice it swinging and took us into a working atmospheres where there are a lot of pressure and many serious thing that we should faced. but by this song all the stiffness and presures became a break down while we are enjoying every tunes of this song.
People around those corner are gathering into a circle watching that man performances and surely I can asumed that this guy was enjoying of what he played. The man is wearing an old tshirt and a shorts, he didn't wear any foot wear. His body is standing while his arm dancing on the bass and he wear a black glass to covered his eyes and from that looking I could know that he was blind. He put his hat in front of him hoping that after he finished the song everybody which pass through or listened to his song will throw some cents. I could see the hat now is a half filled by coins because the way he played those bass and the tunes are very smooth in the evening and the atmosphere specially after worked whole day.
The song was still played and one by one people around is start to lea ing him after throw a coin to the mans hat. His finger was still dancing and choose the perfect string as the tunes brought him and so my ears, it's feel like I wanna dance following those tunes and fly with it.
After the song finished a little girl came to him and help him to pack the bass into a box. Then the old man is sitting on the stair while the little girl is collecting the coins and move it from the hat into a bag, she didn't count it. After it done The girl gave a stick to the old man anda sit beside the old blind man. She was talking to the old man beside her "are you hungry grand pa?", The old man shaked his head as an answer that he didn't hungry and the little girl now is giving the old man a water inside the bottle.
The old man and the little girls was still sitting on the stairs while now the sun is started to going down and the night fall is begun. I'm watching from the distance but I can still hear their conversation. Then the old man is speaking to his grand daughter.
"Neng (called for a little girl from sundanesse).. be a life so you will know what is life all about without any question of it, just through with it, just flow like a river which flow from the high land to the sea. And as the sea where you finally ended you should also has a goal where will you go as a woman which keep growing and finally doing many stage of lives."
The little girl is looked into her granpa's face with smile and seems she understand with what her granfather said, from she look I can asume that she's age was not older than 10 years but from the way she treat her granpa I can saw her as a woman with maturity. She said,
"Granpa, if there's an extra life for me then I will give it to you, so in the next future I'll never be alone and keep alive to give me more wkrds about lifes". Then the old man is said,
"Don't be my sweet girl, life is a time where we're walking with it, we can't resist time and stopped or play the time as we want. We aren't have a power to control it as your parents can't control their life and die in an accident. What you should do is gratefull and walk as the power that you have now.
Be a jazz wherd it doesn't have any specific meaning but the jazz are life and a time. Did you see the people around when I played the jazz? and those a life, every body is make a value to another and to what they saw in their life, they don't need to understand what is jazz or what is syncopation inside jazz, what they needed is a track where since the morning they were walked for school, works or others and I called it as a dream like you are, a little girl who has a big dream andstruggling for your own happiness, not me or not your environment.
It just your self which developt what you really want and what you need to run, let the jazz inside of you as the life which giving you spirit as the the time which continous. I couldn't see the twilight on the west like you are now, but I can feel it as my stepping foot on this ground that noon never fighting with the night fall and also the the opposite, the noon never crashed into a nightfall so there is a twilight and it also when the day is come there is always a morning as the transition."
The little girl is now crying on the old man shoulder, while the old man is hug her and said,
"Cry loud my dearest angel, cry as you will never meet any more cry in your future, Flow your tears as you will never cry because of every problem that you'll meet.. And stop after you feel free and has enough courage to face this life, I believe that someday you'll be a great woman which has a power to beat your own heartache and a oid of all your past, I believe that you're a perso which always recognize your self and your existence, build a good relation horizontaly as human relation and vertically as human with God which giving us life."
Then the nightfall is come, The old man and his grand daughter is stand up to leave the park corner and went home, while me......
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