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?