TIE STORY

TIE OF WISDOM

Slowly Jacob took out the contents of the drawer he was wrapped in cardboard earlier.
A sheet of silvery green cloth with embossed grafirs like a brocade layer that sometimes sparkles when exposed to light. He opened the roll of the cloth which turned out to be in the form of a tie. Imagined by Jacob, the head of the bank branch where his father applied for credit first for his wood business. Mr. Bronto's name is, fat with a moustache with a funny face and easy to laugh. But a year later, when his father's credit was stuck because he was tricked by people, the face turned into fierce complete with a fierce thick moustache like a policeman collecting his ration money. Like Mr. Bronto's tie, the tie that is in his hand.

On a whim Jacob tried to wrap the tie around his neck, which he didn't expect could move to form its own knot without Jacob being able to control. Because Jacob didn't even know how to wear the tie, actually, he just let it go like that, his heart had to beat fast when he saw and felt that the tie could move on its own.

Suddenly his bedroom faded, slipping like a decaying green matrix line number. He was in a room full of books and immediately he realised that it was a library. So many rows of tall cabinets are in that place. But there was one shelf that seemed to light up and shine in Jacob's sight so he moved in that direction. What he felt differently vwas that he did not feel like walking but floated like a ghost towards a book.

The golden brown-backed Buiu was like calling him. So Jacob took it and read the title. 'Meditations.' Marcus Aurelius. In the history lesson that was taught to him, it seems that he had heard the name being called one of the great Roman Emperors in his heyday. And there is a relationship with Stoicism or Stoa. The book was like issuing ink in its writing in the form of a thick liquid that floated into Jacob's sense of hearing. The tingling moment turns into a kind of energy in his head cavity when the fluid passes through the Eustachian canal through the nose. Suddenly like Marcus Aurelius himself explaining what he wrote to Jacob. That understanding went so deep into his mind and Jacob fully understood what the book contained.

And then I don't know where it came from,

Several books moved closer to Jacob and emptied the ink to enter Jacob's mind.

A week later Jacob was like being born new. His mother and younger sister asked him what happened to him because suddenly Jacob often locked himself in his room and hung out with his old computer which was still using the Pentium Core Duo. Jacob's mother was worried that Jacob was depressed in the middle of his thesis about the country's Defence system. But Jacob's happy face and full of hidden smiles erased the worry. Moreover, Jacob can answer well every question of other family members about anything. Even very well.

After spending 100 hours struggling with his research, Jacob is ready to face the world with completely new insights. The books that he downloaded for free through pdf.com were sold out at that time. I don't know why since finding a silvery green tie with a tree image emblem complete with its roots, it seems that the knowledge he learned can be cognitively and systematically connected in his brain like a tree that connects each other completely with its roots. Even occasionally what he learns makes him able to understand all the events in the world whether they are right or wrong, because he can explore the motive behind it through his deep analysis and take root in every soul of the perpetrators or sufferers. The s Tie is like giving a key that becomes a complementary portal and at the same time connects all the understandings it receives. A kind of shortcut that enthines figurative languages and figures of speech that are often used by the author to decorate his writing. What he understands now is the essence of every life event whether past, present or future.

His friends began to feel the change. Jacob, who used to be an awkward person and not smart to hang out, is now suddenly surrounded by many friends who like to listen to his crushes who seem mature and old soul level. Even his lecturer even asked what had happened to Jacob lately to his friends because the look in his eyes seemed to penetrate time and imply a thousand-year-old peace.