Seaside Boy

Nadhir Muhammad Habibi
Writers’ Blokke
Published in
1 min readNov 6, 2021
Huda and his friends in Tanjung Benoa, Bali. Photo taken by Autor.

At the end of the stern, they wanted to start the preliminaries. Is it a story or an ideology? To be sure, for them, maybe the sea is the beginning. Edge is marginalized, inattentive.

Diving looking for Bulung Boni rather than words. The wind blows them.

“Let’s dive again!” said Huda to his friends.

The eight-year-old boy rippled in the waves. Thus his family was scattered far away on the northeastern tip of the Island of Bali. Live as a fisherman.

Not a few other children have the same fate as Huda. Almost every afternoon, Huda and his friends dive. Looking for Bulung Boni for sale at the nearest market. Then the people made Bulung Boni a salad or Traditional Balinese Food; Bulung Boni with a salty but chewy taste like boba. The price is affordable too.

Even though COVID-19 required him to study from home. However, Huda and his friends did not lose their enthusiasm for learning.

Such is the life of a seaside boy. They continue to process to be better without relying on the state.

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