CREATIVE WRITING

No One can Replace Him

     There was an interesting story about choosing the figure for my biography book. The lecturer said that the figure should have the unique side to look up, the figure should near to us, and the figure should still live. When I heard these figure criteria my mind automatically chose an Aceh guy that near to my mosque. He has been lived there for 10 years. At his first coming, he was just an ordinary person. He who always called by the nickname Pak Aceh has a wife but they do not live together in one house. His wife is in Aceh but Pak Aceh lives in Medan. They just meet for days in a year. As I knew they did it because of a job. Now, Pak Aceh is not an ordinary person anymore but an extraordinary person, he reaches his success as ice cream reseller. Even he is a rich man but he is also a truly religious person. He is one of the imams in my mosque. And even his wife is very far away from him, he never doing cheating, and plays with any girls in Medan. His manner also quite good, charitable, humble, and friendly. I found all these his kindnesses and his good sides since 2 years ago and until now. These the reasons why my mind minded him as the figure. But a few minutes after it, I found the best figure more than him, the figure is my father. I think my father is not just a father but more than any father in this worlds. Finally, I chose my father as the figure of the biography book.