Read this short story by Urooj Alnoor of E1 and give her your comments.
It was the same routine again and I was heading back home with these words echoing in my head: “boys don’t cry”. After covering a mile or two I felt a tear roll down my cheek. I realized that I was actually missing her for the first time in my life.
My sister Christa was born when I was nine years old. After her birth she was diagnosed with cancer. ‘Cancer’. As a nine year old, I didn’t know what the word meant but the thing I knew was that cancer was the reason of my hatred towards Christa. Christa wasn’t the kind of sister I wanted, she was ugly, bald and had a lot of abnormalities that were due to the side effects of the chemotherapy she went through every month.
I hated walking with her to school, I felt ashamed when she came to me in the break time to tell that she had scored the highest in her class. The reason I avoided her so much was that children used to tease me for having an ugly sister like Christa.
I still remember the day when my mom told me to take Christa to school as she was insisting to go with me. When we had walked a half mile I heard my friends passing comments on me walking with an ugly girl. At first I ignored them but when it got on my nerves I scolded Christa for coming with me and left her alone on the road. Still she never complained. That night she came to me and gave me a good night kiss when I was asleep.
I did not know that that was my last good night kiss from her. The next morning she was found lifeless in her room. Now that she was gone I realized how cruel I had been to her, how I ignored her each time she came to me, how I used to scold her for things that were not her fault. I felt so foolish for not realizing all this when I had my sister alive. I wanted to say sorry to her but my words stuck in my throat. Suddenly, felt someone hold my hand. The feeling told me it was Christa, she was with me and she had forgiven me for my mistakes. I felt a sense of satisfaction. I wiped my tears and headed towards home.
Urooj Alnoor
E1
Nice one.. :)
ReplyDeleteWe Never Realise The Value Of Something Until Its Gone, So We Should Learn To Value Everything God Has Blessed Us With.
ReplyDeleteOur GOD has given us everything we want in our life but we dont care of these things...
ReplyDeleteUntil that particular thing is gone from our life, we than realize how important that thing belong to us...
So please give value to even a small thing which our GOD has blessed us with...
this article gives the message to those people who devalue their most precious thing in their life and that could be anything your family,friends,or anyone else... so this article is a very good message for these kind of people... they should now realize what they are doing? and with whom they are doing? because if they don't realize their mistake now then it will be too late...
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