Stupid since birth- By Dilsha XI A

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Sometimes, when you go for a walk alone, specks of childhood memories just flash before your eyes. You won’t even know when and where it took place. The only thing you will know is that whenever you think about it, a smile crawls its way to your face. It will fill your heart with a certain type of warmth and your mind will be serene. For that one moment, that flash back, separates you from the outer world and makes you forget your problems. For that one moment, you are happy. I found a speck too.

In those days I thought that having a watch on your wrist made people look matured. More ‘grown-up’. So I went to my Mom and with puppy dog eyes I asked her for a watch- A pink watch with Barbie on top. So matured of me. With a dimple smile she replied that she will buy me one but first I have to show her that I knew how to read time. Now that was a serious problem. I only knew when it was an ‘o’clock’. You know, 1 o’clock, 2 o’clock, 3 o’clock etc.

So I planned that when that minute hand strikes 12, I will tell her the time. Not so much of a plan but I was optimistic that it will work. I think my Mom came to know my plan because the next thing I know I was being pushed to the bathroom for a shower and you can’t tell the time when you are in a shower. Literally!

For every 5 minutes or so I kept peeking my head out of the shower to check whether that long stick (that’s what I had named the minute hand) had stroke on 12 yet. After which looked like my 10th peeking, it finally stroke on 12. I ran out of the bathroom with a soaked head and a water dripping towel around me. Finding my Mom in the kitchen I yelled ‘ITS 4 O’CLOCK!!’ (I think)

I didn’t get a watch that day. Instead I got a memory of my Mom laughing till she started gasping for air. And that memory is worth more than anything in the world.

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