Sayid: You! Don’t throw away the trash there. You should put it away in the recycle bin or in the special place for rubbish. Don’t you be ashamed of yourself, do you?
Eni: Sorry. But don’t say so. Just remind me not to throw away the trash here, and then I will throw it away in the recycle bin. Your words stab my heart, don’t you know it. I am angry with you.
Yeni: Hey, don’t be so serious and let the trash break your friendship that you have tied in years. It is not funny friends. Let’s discuss this problem together with our friends now.
Dian: He said the truth friends. I know that the trash is not a big deal for us, but it plays a unique role in our daily life. For example, illness that attacks you is caused from the dirty environment.
Eva: Exactly. If you throw away rubbish, garbage, or trash at anywhere, it will bring illness to your body and make your body defense becomes weak. So, some diseases will easily come into your body.
Maysaroh: It is frightened. We should keep our environment clean from any kinds of waste in order to avoid bacteria infect our body. Fortunately, my home is always clean, because my maid always cleans it every day.
Sayid: You are so lucky glad. You have a maid to help you cleaning the house, but as the host, you should show him how to keep the house clean, because you are the model.
Eni: Of course. We should begin from ourselves. It is unused if your house is clean but you yourself contaminate it by throwing away rubbish inside the house. It means that you are the dirty man.
Yeni: I don’t wanna get the nickname “The Dirty Man”. I must be ashamed with that strange name, because it contains negative sense. I will be very glad if someone calls me as “The Clean Man”.
Dian: Yueee. But wait a minute. “The Clean Man” is not suitable for you. You should check your cloth, nails, pant, and under . . . you know. Is it clean or dirty? If you understand what I said, you must think twice to get it.
Eva: You miss some. Teeth, brain, and hearth should be clean. Cleanliness is not only determined from the outside performance, but also inside one. Trust me!
Maysaroh: It also as our prophet Muhammad said: . It means that if we keep everything clean, Allah will give us reward and our faith will increase. It is a proud, isn’t it?
Sayid: I am with you glads. But, would you tell me how to keep our environment clean every day, please? I am staying in the board so that it is hard to keep it clean every day.
Eni: Ok! I will tell you one. You should sweep your room twice in a day. You can do it in the morning and in the afternoon, because those are the good timing to clean your room.
Yeni: Don’t forget to stick a paper that is written “Keep The Area Clean”. At least, it will motivate and remind not only you but also people surround you. It is a good trick.
Dian: Nice. But my suggestion is better then you. You should make a washing and cleaning schedule to organize you when you should wash and clean the room so that your room will free from dust and dirty.
Eva: Almost nice. You also have to prepare a basket in you room to put away the dry trash such as paper and plastic. You must empty the basket once in three days or until it is full of trash.
Maysaroh: Emmm, you have to mop the floor every two days in order to make your floor free from dust and avoid from the germ. If you don’t clean it, typhus will attack you. Becareful!
Sayid: I don’t know whether I can do all your suggestions. But I have to try it first to prove that I am able to manage my room clean. Because I will be the housewife after getting married few years ago.
Eni: Amin. By the way, typhus is a very common illness that attacks people who never wash or clean his plate after eating or food that is contaminated by germ that is brought by certain animal like cat, cockroach, and fly.
Yeni: I have heard about that. It is the common illness that usually attacks the poor. I don’t mean to say that the poor is dirty, but the fact shows that. You can ask to the hospital.
Dian: I see that. Although this disease usually attacki the poor, but may be it is possible to attack the rich if they don’t keep the house clean from cat, cockroach, and fly. It can happen.
Eva: You are right. Everything is possible. It depends on how a person tries to make the surrounding environment free from diseases. If they are success to make it real, they will get the best result.
Maysaroh: Cool! But how to indicate that a person is contaminated by this disease? We have to know it, so that we can do the best thing if someone are indicated adopting this disease.
Sayid: As I know, in the first day, he will get fever. His body shakes and he will sweat hardly. He cannot sleep because he feels hot and cold in turns. It is terrible.
Eni: Yup. He also will feel his tongue is bitter. When he want to swallow something, in real it is sweet, he just taste it bitter, even his saliva. Everything is tasted bitter for the infected person.
Yeni: He must be in suffering. He cannot taste even the sweet food. I don’t want to be infected with this disease, because you cannot eat delicious food and to do your daily activities. Indeed, I don’t want.
Dian: We hope we will never be infected. But you know friends, the dangerous thing is, it is possible he can die if there is no first aid to the infected people. So, if you know that someone is infected, bring him directly to the hospital.
Eva: Or you can also report it to the chief of neighborhood association, then he will bring him to the nearest local government clinic. At least, he will get the first aid from the doctor.
Maysaroh: You are brilliant friends. With those indications, we will do the first aid to the person who is infected with typhus disease and our surrounding neighborhood will free from any kinds of dangerous disease.
Sayid: I hope so. But how to keep our home from dangerous insects such cockroach, fly, and mice? They are the source of this disease. If we let them stay inside the house, it means that you let your family get sick.
Eni: I almost miss it. But logically, if we always clean the house until the small holes on every corner of the sides, it has prevented them to make those sides being their home. Do you agree?
Yeni: But it is not only that. You have to prepare anti-insects spray to kill them if we know that there are some insects or you can make a trap for catching mice. Enough.
Dian: No. it is not quite enough. The most important thing is you have to do all that continuously and check the empty holes from the mice. Don’t let your food is opened, because the fly will drop it eggs there.
Eva: Medicine is also important. If you don’t have opportunity to see the doctor, you can do your first aid by drinking some tablets for fever. It will decrease the hot body temperature and make him sleep.
Maysaroh: Nice idea. But don’t you think that it is better to prevent it happens then to cure it? Wiseman said that and it is true. It such a wise word “preparing the umbrella first before raining”.
Sayid: What the solutions are! I really believe that we can protect not only our surrounding environment clean, but also our healthy body. We should promise to do that.
Eni: Ok, glad! We promise. Oh, I nearly forgot. We will have mutual cooperation at
Yeni: Let’s bring our broom lidi, and clean our beloved city, so that metro will be the healthiest city in
Dian: Ah, don’t say so. Even we don’t clean it yet, you have imagined at anywhere. I will ask all my family to get involved in this program and explain to them that cleanliness is the priority.
Eva: So do I. I will ask not only my family but also my neighbor to clean the environment together. The cleanest the city is, the happier the citizen will be.
Maysaroh: Work hard friends! May Allah bless our wishes and make it real. It is
All: see you!
Kamis, 27 September 2007)