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DAILY JOURNAL 4 - "Two Kids" Short Story by Indriani Meisyaroh


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[Two Kids] “this is a story of two kids who were living in a village. One among them was 10 years old and other was 6 years old. They both were the best of friends. They always stay together, play together,and eat together. One day, while playing outside, they reached little far away from their houses in open farms, where no one was there around. They didn’t realised, that they were away from their homes. Suddenly, the elder friends slipped and fell into the well at the farm. He started crying and shouting for help because he didn’t knew how to swim. Seeing this, the younger friend looked here and there to call someone for help but there was, nobody around him. Then he saw a bucket with a rope attached with it and without wasting any time he threw that bucket in the well holding the rope of bucket in his hand. And he said to his elder friend to hold the bucket and he started pulling it out. The elder friend was stuck to the bucket and the little friend used all his strenght and kept on pulling and pulling that bucket so hard, until he saved his friend. Finally his friend came out of the well and they were very happy. But, as they went back to their area and told about this incident to everyone in the village no one even believed. That a 6 year old, who was not ever able to pick a bucket full of water, how we had pull the weight of 10 year old kid. But, one wise old man of that village listened to their incident and trusted them. All the villagers asked the old man, how is it possible, that a 6 year-old small and weak kid, had pulled the weight of a 10 year old kid and how are you trusting their incident? The old man laughed and said, “That the question is not, how he had done this, but why he had done this?” How he got all this strenght to pull the bucket holded by his friend? And then the old man answered, “This is all because, there was no one around him to tell him that, he cannot do that. There was no one around to discourage him, even he himself, could’n tell... that I can’t do that...”
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