Letter From A man in the South Region To A Woman in the Northern Region

Did you ever heard a woman doused her face with hard water, or the maid pushed by employers that fell from the fifth floor, or a woman locked in the toilet for a week, or degrading women are traded manner like junk, and a woman crushed to moan by untamed ferocity and rage stunt. Should hear this story.

And Johanna is a woman. Patient, do not ask for more, serving her husband since her marriage to John, a friendly and busy life with children. Serving the family as a woman should give satisfaction to the family. Inculcate moral and ethical rules of that worthy as the people pinned to each family norm. Provide appropriate assurance to the neighbors at the risk of helper character. and never want to interfere affairs
neighbors.

Yes, Johanna realized, she was a woman. Who live in an age when ever she would remain in the shadow of the palm of a man. Who live in the ever women only will be considered a disturbing ghost finance. And Johanna does not like that, Johanna is a woman who succumb. For him, gave a motherly nature should be maintained until whenever. People who have a lot of thought, that now we are lulled by the interests simply to meet the joke. Many of our behavior that should make us more aware of how important we are to avoid jokes and silliness that does not mean. Johanna example, she was … even though only a woman, but never want to throw themselves into the world
is filled with pointless silliness. Washing clothes, for she is more meaningful than just shopping, when she could.

“There’s a letter for you!” Said John, her husband. authoritative tone. Mas Jon was like that, do not want to be called weak by her husband. John’s body is not too high. From it always appears the rules so tight, though Johanna knew perfectly well the nature of her husband, impatient and rarely spoke.

It’s likely, that the letter triggers rift bond between John and himself. Johanna is a woman, and realized that she was a woman, when she received a letter with a cover that read, “The letter A Man of the South Region To A Woman in the North Region ..” Johanna looked glazed, read the cover letter. The cover letter was torn, perhaps John already knew everything, about the contents of the letter. And sentences written on the envelope that was misinterpreted by John, until her husband was not given to her maid dialogue. John just read the newspaper, casual, sit, occasionally saw the expression on her face. Gleaming eyes can not hide, that he was really jealous.

Without going preceded, Johanna directly to explain to her husband, about the origins of the letter. She, though a wife who rarely argue with my husband, but for this to explain. The effort succeeded or not it matters later

“John, believe me. This letter from my friend! “said Johanna sure. “Gumilar, my friend when he learned in junior high. He’s from the South … “Johanna took a deep breath, shortness scratch painted when she saw her husband was still cool to read newspapers, only shifted his body slightly off the couch, and he eventually turned Johanna. John remained silent. The jealous husband who can not vent their emotions, because the character and basic nature itself is quiet. However, he was stabbed by the letter. The letter, which should not come to Johanna who has been through the ship as far as ten years of marriage.

Johanna was aware of this. But … would not that only regular mail, which when read its contents, just rebound past from a southern man to himself. Does not everyone have a past?, Even could be any woman like her having male friends, have Gumilar others in the past. Or, John, too, might have another Johanna in the past. Because it is the past. What should be done by her husband is keeping the trust. Tore the cover letter to him without permission is a form of betrayal, trust is embedded in the consent granted and the ceremony had clearly been torn, torn. Or whether it is true, as claimed by many, that belief is now ripped away from its roots, until people lose faith easier than losing money from the pocket. And the fruit is honesty. Honesty is the husband to the wife, while Johanna was to speak honestly, what it is about the letter.

Gumilar, chairman of Junior High Student Organization at his alma mater, had had time to pour out your hearts to him. And in the letter, he talked back some memories that they had spent together. Though there is no problem in the letter, Gumilar just tell. Telling, is not expressing his heart again this time to Johanna. John should know, that Gumilar also has a wife and children, what could a man who has a family and behave like it would behave Gumilar stuff. That is not realized by John.

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And Johanna told me everything. Morning, when the sun emerged from behind the hills, the kids were still asleep in her cold. The streets were still wet with the remnants of the rain. Trees wrapped in mist, the atmosphere is still empty. Lonely. Johanna has come to my house.

“Is not every husband and wife must understand the situation?” Ask Sum, my wife told me when he heard the narrative of Johanna. Their’s known both women. No wonder my wife’s first response to the narrative of Johanna.

As for me, no other comment, except to agree that every man must understand the state of his wife. Every person has a past that sometimes will come suddenly unexpectedly in the present. Longing to the past was so passionate, so sure will not be able to be contained by the sense, even more pent menggejolak. No one to blame when people break back his past. Is not that legitimate?

“Then, if appropriate Johanna blame. If, that is to receive the letter myself, how to react, my husband? “Ask Sum.

“Me?”

“Yes, you?”

“There’s nothing to debate. But at least, between our position with Johanna probably very much different. I knew John’s husband, quiet kind of guy, and yes … exactly the type of cat is! “

“And, you also equal Johanna, a taciturn. What have you said to John’s. You should have frank, open, do not say anything .. women do not always succumb. Yes … the occasional act, do not want to constantly treated like a weak Jo. See your children grown. Do not make them victims. “

“Yes, should be consulted only with your husband …”

Johanna can only silence. In her sun shone a whole remained closed by the silence. Perhaps, for her, simply, that she was a woman. Silence does make us more curious. Surely she knows everything better.

“If I may know …. What kind of letter that you received it, Johanna …? “Ask my wife.

Johanna shook her head. Down. Still no word.

“Well, we’re not going to force …”

“But … our advice, you should remain open, do not let John’s silent but became a cat, while you were still closed and fell into the labyrinth of oppression. It’s not a day longer keep her wallowing in the labyrinth of oppression … “My advice to make sure.

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But one afternoon. At recess the office, I saw from a distance, John, Johanna’s husband walked side by side with a woman. Among the pedestrians meeting, he took a woman. Just to make sure, I continued to watch where they go, and they disappear, go into a cafe. Certainly, he wanted to vent their frustration at his wife with a furtive way. Oh man! when I was a man, but when I saw the John, that John was willing to take the wrong conclusion, so bright a few question marks arose in me. Is worthy of a man harassing his family in a way do not deserve scene, forget the children, forget to Johanna to forget to himself. Forgot that he had plunged into the pit further problems.

And that afternoon, the pain may be mist hung on Johanna’s face. However, he remained silent. The neighbors had much to comment since they saw John walking side by side with another woman. Roni, my close neighbors to discuss John depravity. So, not only me who sees her husband’s stupid scene.

“The John brought his mistress into the house, making out right in front of Johanna!” Said my wife. We become angry, Oh … Johanna how much pain, destruction of the soul in her. Obviously we are very upset, but what we should regret. Or should we blame. Gumilar, a letter writer? Johanna is simply remained silent and his heart broken (probably broke his heart)? Or the John? a jealous husband who did not want to understand about the past. Stupid man who can not appreciate a wife who had risked her kindness? Stupid husband who will not understand, that all people have the memories and the past!

Later that night, Johanna came to our house. He’s, ah … her face was not like I imagined. Is she a woman? Not reflected for a moment that she was overwhelmed by grief. In fact … she’s still maintaining her smile to us. O! How strong this woman. How good of a solid rod standing on the soul ripe with beautiful manners.

“I’m just a woman!” Johanna said, well … he began to dare to speak. Keep smiling.

“Yes, and I was a woman ….” Said my wife, “Women should not always be relegated is not it?”

“I do not mean to talk about it. I am still a woman. Any incident that happened to me will I face the way a woman … “

“See, even though you destroyed …?!” I said. “Do not be so Jo. Do not until you become a victim to the many thousands of time … “I just mumbled, thinking back a few incidents of wife who washed her face with hard water, her face fell apart like a man-eating ghosts since her husband’s treatment.

Johanna was still smiling, more came. Women like her … ah? What crazy …. or is just pretending to hide his confusion. As if in her not the slightest doubt envisaged to remain a woman despite the oppression. Yes, she is an oppressed woman who could not resist savagery of a husband. I can not understand, why John the quiet and rarely spoke it became a wild man.?

“I will beat your husband, if he dared to hanky-panky, Sundel woman was brought to your home!” Instincts and courageous manhood arise in me.

“Do not involve yourself too much, Brother!” Johanna said.

Without any certainty, Johanna went home. Accompanied by my wife up to the terrace house. We can only sigh heavily, did not dare to conclude whether Johanna gone mad? Obviously we always pray to the Almighty to keep him for strength. And we believe, Johanna will remain strong. Hang in there Jo!

The Next Morning, there is a news, The John did not come home last night. Bondan, a pedicab driver to saw the Jon wae still playing with women mistress. They were making out under a large banyan tree at the edge of the slums. In fact … the John called Bondan and told him to give the news to Johanna, “I’ll spend the night at Lastri’s house …” He said, pointing to the woman beside him. Madness!!

Johanna still doing his routine as a mother. Bathe the children, clothe them before leaving school. cooking the rice, wash clothes, dried them. And he still greet anyone who passes in front of his house.

The days are gone through mediocrity. But .. weird, why do we who become upset over her attitude? More than a week after they were John, who in the view of my wife as a man worthy of that bastard did not come home. People began to busy talking, maybe Johanna has become insane, chaotic mind. but I’m pretty sure, ahe could not be mad.

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A month has passed since the arrival of mail from a man in the South Region To A Woman in the North Region. John getting mad and Johanna increasingly bizarre in my view. Not least there are signs that Johanna will act.

However, what I witnessed just the opposite, a week ago Johanna telephone kiosks in front of his house. and petty trade to finance school children. Occasionally the children we saw selling fried bananas, take orders, deliver cassava chips to the stalls. Even Minul, the largest children’s elementary school third grade was used to bring spurious merchandise to school, sold it to his friends. John did not give more money to him. But the stupid man was also often hurt Johanna. People started talking, Johanna is a woman. Women’s weird, maybe. As well as a great woman …. Which is rarely encountered.