Life goes on in its own way irrespective of the happenings n incidents in life. Ashi's life is also flowing through its way. she is 8 yrs old and in class-IV now. she has made sum good friends and a cute girl Mansi is her best friend. Mansi is an average student and very weak physically. she has fever most of the time whereas ashi never fell ill. mansi's attendance was poor but rarely did ashi miss the school. school was her favourite place, her own world. ashi being a good student always helped mansi in studies. she felt a strange satisfaction in helping her friends specially mansi. at that time birthday parties were not very much in practice. ashi was the only girl in the class whose birthday was celebrated in a lavish way, only one to come in school in a car and only one with loads of stationaries which made other girls jealous . they used to tell ashi that she was lucky to have parents like hers and their parents always discriminate between their brothers and them. all good things were for their brothers and not for them. ashi was surprised to know all this, still she longed for a brother. one day mansi told her that next day was her birthday. ashi gladly asked about the birthday party. mansi became sad and said my parents are not rich like urs that they will celebrate my birthday. ashi din't understand properly but she wanted to make her happy on her birthday.



Mr. sharma returned home and saw that ashi is not in a good mood. "wat happened to my sweet baby? y r u sad today?"



"papa i told u about my best friend mansi na. tomorrow is her birthday but her parents don't celebrate her birthday , so he is very depressed. can we celebrate her birthday in school tomorrow?



"ya sure, anything for my doll. i'll arrange everything"



suddenly her mom comes to her mom and hears this. "wat nonsense is this? ashi is a kid but are u also out of ur mind. who are we to celebrate her birthday. everyday there will be some child's birthday and ur daughter will say to celebrate his or her's birthday. ridiculous. i'm fed up of this girl."



on hearin these words ashi started crying but mr. sharma consoled her and somehow convinced her mom that this is the first and last time. reluctantly she agreed.



Next day ashi's dad took permission from the principal to celebrate mansi's birthday in the recess. two cakes were bought as one was not sufficient for the whole class. then ashi came to know that today was the birthday of one more classmate, abhijeet. she thought he will feel bad if only mansi's b'day was to be celebrated, so she requested her teacher to ask abhijeet also to join and cut one of the cakes. when he was told this, his joy knew no bounds. same was with mansi, both of them thanked ashi and promised to be her good friends forever. all the teachers praised ashi and said that she was not only a good student but a good friend as well as human being. after a long time ashi heard sumthing nice about herself and she was very pleased. she decided that she will always try to bring joy and love to others lives and stay away from bad people.



Is it so easy to judge people ashi?

Hello Frienz! sorry to keep u waiting for long. due to unavoidable circumstances i wasn't able to post anything these days. so lets start the next part of the story.



Days were passing by in the same manner for little Anshika when one day Darwanji told Mr. Sharma that his daughter's marraige has been fixed and he has to go to his village for a month. Ashi's dad happily gave the permission. when ashi heard this, she created quite a ruckus. her parents made her calm after much difficulty. after 2 days when darwanji was leaving, she started crying like anything, snatched her bag and won't let him go. he also had tears in his eyes but he had to leave. he promised her that he would be back as soon as possible but she won't listen. finally her mom locked her in a room and asked him to leave. he hesitantly left, her cries still ringing sharp in his ears. poor ashi din't eat anything that day but for how long? she started counting days for darwanji's arrival. a month passed but he din't arrive. one week more passed. wats wrong with him? has he forgotten me? now her parents also started being worried. after a week a letter came from his village."we are sorry to inform u that Ram Naresh died a week ago in an accident when he was going back to kolkata". tears flow down from mr. sharma's eyes. since twenty years this man was with him, performing all his duties immaculately and honestly, never did he has to say anything to him regarding his work. he has given all his youth in the service of this household and now he has left the world in this way. suddenly he realised wat will happen to Ashi now, how will he break the news to her? no he cannot do tht. he told everythin to his wife and told her to explain all this to ashi. her mom was shocked to hear this. first time in her life she shivered to talk to her daughter but she din't have any other choice. i feel short of words to write the experience of a mom when she had to give such an unpleasant news to her little child who doesn't even understand the meaning of death. how can a child who don't know the meaning of life properly, understand wat is death and its effects. how a mom did such a difficult task and wat happened after that, this i leave to ur imagination friends. what i know is that was one of the saddest day of ashi's life and she was deprived of the love and affection of darwanji forever. Destiny smiled and said," this is just the starting."

One day an astrologer friend of Ashi's dad visited their home. during their conversation mr. sharma asked him to see ashi's hand and predict sumthin. he started seeing her hand when her mom entered the room with Rup. seeing her the gentleman left her hand sprang towards them and took Rup in her lap and started bantering,"good heavens! what a beautiful child, you are so lucky to have her. she is an avtaar of goddess lakshmi. no need to see her hand, wherever she will go, she will bring luck." ashi waited patiently for the Uncle to see her hand but when this continued for a good 15 mins, her patience gave away. Mr.sharma said,"please see ashi's hand i want to know about her".
"ya sure come here child"
but ashi din't move. when dad asked her to go to him she refused to show her hand.
when the Uncle again asked her to come, she showed her tongue to him, made faces and left the room. mr. astrologer's face changed few colours and he said embarrassed, its ok, she is just a kid."
one year passed in this way. Ashi's dad was very fond of watching movies and he used to buy new video cassettes for his personal collection. he used to frequent a video library and sumtimes took ashi with him also and she really loved that place. she liked to see the covers of the videos very much. the owner of the shop became a good friend of her dad. one day ashi was ill so her dad took Rup with him. when dad came back he was too happy and told her mom,"u know today Rup accompanied me to the video library and wat happened? the owner was so pleased to see her that he treated us with sweets n cold drinks. he also gave me a free video and asked to bring her regularly. he was complaining why i din't take her there before. i was amazed at the way he greeted us."
poor ashi who came to see her dad and sister heard all this from the door stood there dumbfounded. she started thinking i have visited there a number of times but uncle never offered me sweets or cold drinks, why? wat wrong did i do? i never misbehaved with him, then? whenever we visit any relative's or friend's house, or if some one comes to our place, every one talks and praises her only. why not me? they dont look at me also and always behave strangely with me. they were the ones who loved me before now wats wrong with them? is mom right that i'm fat and ugly? even if i'm what wrong i've done with them? dad loves me, teachers love me, darwanji loves me then what is the problem of these people.
Friends neglection and hatred are such things which a small child can feel also. is it right to make small kid so conscious about her looks?
is it right to make such comparisons between kids at this ripe age?
does anyone thinks what impact will it have on her?
From that day ashi never went to that video library again which was her favourite place.

In the evening Ashi's dad comes home and starts looking for ashi as usual. everyday she comes running to him when he returns home but today she is nowhere to be seen. he asks her mom about her,"where is ashi?"
"in her room"
"why? wat is she doing?
"how do i know?"
dad goes to her room and he is surprised to see that she is crying.
"wat happened to my lovely daughter?"
"papa, tell me am i very ugly?"
"wat? who told u such rubbish"
"mom says i'm very ugly and nobody will marry me"
"ur mom is crazy, don't listen to her. she must have joked with u. in my eyes you are the most beautiful girl on earth, beta."
"really papa?"
"yes my doll."
ashi was very happy to hear that. we'll see in later parts how and why this incident was always recalled by her.

Ashi is very pleased to have a little sister and loves her a lot. time goes on and both the sisters grew extremely fond of each other. Suddenly there is some problem in the joint family of three brothers and they decide to separate. Ashi's parents bought a new house in a diferent locality and shifts there.
Ashi is 5 years old now and Rup is 3 and half years old. Ashi is still a fat baby. Today is Ashi's birthday so, there is a party at Mr. Sharma's place. lots of people have gathered here. one of the relatives comes to Ashi's parents and says,"wow ur younger daughter is an angel ekdum lakshmi ka rup hai she will be married to some royal family." they are too glad to hear these compliments. little Ashi overhears it but she doesn't cares but when one by one most of the people says same kind of things she gets a bit irritated. although she is too young to understand such things, she couldn't understand why anybody is not saying any good things about her. after all its her birthday today. wat happened to all those lovable people who always showered love and affection on her. (the readers must have understood y it happened being a part of indian society).
Time passes and gradually mom's behaviour also starts changing towards Ashi. but two men still loves her like anything, her dad and the old darwan of the family. Ashi also loves them and her little sister very much but she tries to stay away from her mom. so when her dad is not at home she goes in the servant quarters to play with darwanji. both the sisters have already started going to school. both are blessed with good brains and intelligence and pick up studies very fast. but it seems all the burden of studying and doing well in the exams is on Ashi's little shoulders only. mom always pesters her to study properly and that she must get the 1st position in the class. Ashi is too young to understand the number game now and dont pays much attention to it. but one thing bugs her that why mom never asks Rup to study and all. one day when mom was scolding her as usual for playing and not studying, she gets annoyed and retorted, " Mama why do u scold me always, u never tell Rup anything?"
"shut up! no need to compare urself with Rup. u r not beautiful like her, understand?"
"so wat? wat difference does that make?"
"beautiful people don't have to do anything substantial. their beauty is enough for them. with her kind of looks she will surely be married in a rich and nice family. but wat about u? if u don't have some good qualities and knowledge nobody will take u?"
" why should i go with anyone in the first place? i'll stay with dad only".
"stop arguing. u r such a brat at this age, wat will u do later? as it is you are ugly and fat, and then u r good for nothin."
"UGLY". the word came like an arrow and struck into her little heart. God knows wat happened but tears came streaming down her cheeks. she didn't understand what kind of feeling was that. why she was feeling a pain? she was not hurt anywhere at all. then? y she is crying? why is she feeling so bad? whom should she tell about it? dad is also not at home.

A Beautiful Story of a Not so Beautiful Girl

Hi Friends i'm sharing a real story of a girl with u. Its a long story n d story will continue through several posts. i'm not a writer and this is my 1st attempt 2 write sumthin. so plz let me know ur views.

The story starts with the birth of a girl child. the child is born after many complications and after completing full 10 months. the baby is post matured and overweight. parents are too happy specially the father, Mr. Sharma, who always wished for a girl. the chubby baby is wheatish-complexioned with big black eyes. next day the nurses show the baby to other patients and everyone is happy to see such a cute baby. as long as the baby stays there she becomes the darling of all people including the staff.
finally the baby comes home with her mother and is named Anshika by her dad. little anshika enjoys all the attention from the neighbours n relatives and starts growing in a lavish way. she is the hearththrob of the locality n family. everyone calls her Ashi. one year passes and her mom gets pregnant again. this time everybody expects a boy. time passes and the final day comes but again a girl is born. mom is a bit disappointed but when she and other family members see the child they are dumbstruck.
wat a beautiful creation of God! milky-white complexion, big eyes, red lips, extremely beautiful n cute. everybody forgets everything and fall over each other to take a look of the baby. she is named as Rupika and called as Rup, true to her name.