A happy life was what Fahtima had been craving for since she was a small girl. Born in a poor family, she never had the opportunity to have fun with dolls and other toys which were the only things children of her age liked. Whenever she saw someone playing with one, all she did was stare at him/her… after all what else could she do? Many a times she had wondered,” Why did God do this to me? Everyone else around me seems so happy, seem like they have all what they need… Then why am i an exception?”.
Years passed by. Things didn’t seem to change at all… Then one cold night, when she was all curled up on her cot, shivering…still in sleep, God came in her dreams, “Child, i know the world seems so much colourful to others than it does to you. It happens to everyone for a while. The life that i have designed is such that my every child will witness every scenario atleast once.Such that both good times and bad times, as you call them, will come to everyone. The time u are going through right now is not agony, its just an indication that the rest of your life is going to be so cheerful that it’ll make you forget this period in a flash. But for that, you must bear this moment in patience my dear Fahtima….” And with this God slowly faded away and Fahtima gained consciousness. Was it really God she had seen in her dreams or had she just imagined it to ease her pain. Whatever the answer be, she decided to go by what God had said. She patiently waited.
Then one day an educational scheme started in her village, and she being a brilliant student was taken into it on full scholarship. She put all her effort in her studies believing that maybe this was the path that God had chosen for her to enter a new world. And indeed it was. Soon under the scheme she was transferred to a high school of repute and then through a test entered a very famous university. She learnt to fund herself by taking tuitions alongwith her studies.
Today she’s in her final year and has numerous Job and other prospects. The new world really took her in and all it had required of her was patience in the beginning and a bit of dedication.
This is so much true for each one of us. Life may have so many ups and downs. Though the story i just wrote might have a bit exaggerated extremes, the purpose still is to tell that life is equal for everyone and every bad period in life should be dealt with patience with the belief that towards the end, there has to be joy, just like at the end of a tunnel there is always light…:)
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