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Life Told a Good Lesson (The Blind Girl)

Neetu Saini
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This story is about a girl who is blind and 15 years old. She is so excited to see the world but
she never expected that she can see the world ever. Sometimes she hates herself that she is

blind, and asks herself why she can’t see the world. Many of the times she thought about how

the world is? how’s the people looking? How many colours are there? how the colours look as
she only knows about the black colour. She had a best friend who always cared for her, every

time with her. Their friendship is god gifted, as no one like to talk to her and sit with her. But
his friend who always help her in every work and care for her. One day the girl told her best

friend that you help me a lot and care for me, always there for me, you’re great for me. Then

she said to him, that if someone donates me eyes then i will marry you. Her friend thinks and
take her to doctor and donate his eyes to her, now she is seeing everything, she is so happy and

then she asked for her friend to doctor. Doctor replied, “Hey, child, your friend is going to his
village for some urgent work and told me to return soon.” The girl became sad as she wished

to see her friend. After so long her friend came with her parents from the village to meet the
girl. When the girl found out that her friend was returning back from the village, she became

excited to meet him and told about everything and her happiness that now what she feels. She

is so happy to have eyes and now she is able to see everything. She is so excited to tell her
happiness to his friend. When she met him, she was shocked that her friend is blind too, the

boy remembering her for the promise she made with him, that when someone donated her eyes
then she got to marry her friend. But now when she met him and saw that his friend is blind,

she refused to marry him and left his friend alone and went away. His friend becomes sad and

has tears in eyes and thinks about the time spent with her and the care he does when no one
helps her in the bad times. At that time, he is with her and helps her in every situation. After so

long he wrote a letter to the girl saying:
“just take care of my eyes dear”

When the girl got the letter, she read it and can’t understand what the message conveyed. She

moved to the doctor who operated her eyes and got to know the truth behind her donating eyes.
Doctor tells him the whole truth about how the boy helps her and is donating his eyes to you,

and refuses me to not tell you this truth ever.
Now she felt bad and want to go his village when she reached his village there, she asked about

him, but there he get to know that the boy is no long now as he expire in an accident. She felt

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