By Sara Salome Philips, (VII), CJM
Remaining cheerful every time is not an easy job. We come across a lot of difficulties and problems and therefore no one can always expect us to have a smile stitched up on our human face. For lets understand we are not ROBOTS. This is a story about a girl named Lyra who lost her parents during a car accident and yet she remained cheerful.
Lyra lost her parents at the age of five. She was sent to her Aunt Susan and Uncle Henry. The couple had a daughter named Lucy. They were very rich where as Lyra was not that much, so they gave her a small dirty and dingy room. Lyra did not crib but accepted the room cheerfully. Her aunt was very proud of herself, she sent her daughter by car and Lyra was sent by the public bus. Although Lyra knew that they didn’t accept her as their daughter, she remained cheerful. After coming home from school Lyra was supposed to mop the floor and wash the dishes. She never objected to this. Consequently, Lyra never got time for her studies during the day, so she used to sit late night and finish her homework and studies.
Lyra and Lucy’s exams were around the corner. Both of them were working very hard. One night Aunt Susan got sick. Her body temperature rose. Lucy kept studying but Lyra never minding the past behaviour of her aunt left her studies and went to her aunt’s room. She found her lying in bed with very high fever. No doctor was available at night so Lyra lay beside her aunt all night although she had an exam the very next day. She was firm about her decision and took great care of her aunt till the following morning. Moreover, to top it all, Uncle Henry had gone abroad for a month. They consulted a doctor and Lyra without preparing properly for her exams went to school. Aunt Susan remained sick all though their exams.
Lucy was sure that she would top the class while Lyra knew she wouldn’t even though she was good at studies because she never got time to study. Though Lyra got bad results, she remained happy and in good spirits. She was happy for her aunt was slowly getting cured. Moreover she was happy that at least she could take care of her aunt who didn’t take care of her. her aunt was really sorry and was very unhappy with her own daughter whom she loved from the bottom of her heart. She was unhappy that lucy never cared to come to her mother Aunt Susan’s side and take care of her. Lyra was very happy that her deed of love in return for hatred bought so much fruit. For at last she got her rightful love. This story inspired me because though there was no one to help Lyra, she remained cheerful and remained her true self.
Since, ‘Blessed are the meek for they will inherit the Earth’.
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