"Orang Asing"/ "Foreigners" (Bilingual)

in #life7 years ago (edited)

Aku sedang mendengar dua orang asing berbicara dengan bahasa yang tidak kumengerti. “Bagaimana mereka memahami setiap kata dari lawan bicara?” pikirku. Karena, dalam pendengaranku, nyaris sepanjang percakapan itu mereka mengulang kata-kata yang sama terus-menerus.

I'm hearing two strangers talking in a language I do not understand. "How do they understand every word of the other person?" I thought. Because, in my hearing, almost throughout the conversation they repeat the same words constantly.

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Nah, begitulah. Lantaran aku tidak mengerti bahasa mereka, aku cendrung membenarkan pikiranku sendiri, bahwa mereka adalah dua orang yang terlalu banyak menghabiskan waktu untuk ucapan-ucapan yang tidak terlalu banyak artinya.

Well, that's it. Because I do not understand their language, I tend to justify my own mind, that they are two people who spend too much time on words that are not so much.

Di pasar, aku juga sering berpapasan dengan orang-orang yang tidak sehat lagi jiwanya. Berjalan kaki sepanjang hari, bicara sendiri, ketawa sendiri, dan mengorek-ngorek tong sampah. Aku berpikir, “Kok bisa mereka melakukan hal-hal yang tidak penting itu, tapi begitu seriusnya.

In the market, I also often encounter people who are not healthy anymore soul. Walking all day, talking to yourself, laughing to herself, and digging in the garbage can. I thought, "How could they do such unimportant things, but so seriously.

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Tetapi, kelak suatu hari, saat kita sudah bisa bertutur dengan bahasa asing dua orang di atas, kita juga akan berbicara dengan mereka seasyik mereka kini berdialog berdua. Begitu juga, jika kelak kita sudah mampu memahami, apa arti berjalan kaki sepanjang hari, bicara sendiri, ketawa sendiri dan mengorek-ngorek tong sampah di sudut pasar sayur, kita juga akan melakukannya dengan tekun, bukan?

But one day, when we can speak the foreign language of the two people above, we will also talk to them as well as they are now dialoguing together. Likewise, if one day we are able to understand, what is the meaning of walking all day, talking to yourself, laughing and scratching the trash can in the corner of the vegetable market, we will also do it diligently, right?

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