Written by: Shuban Pradhan - 24005, Grade X
Posted on: 08 December, 2021
Once upon a time, there lived a boy named Marion who lived with his family in a highly reputed town. They were a middle-class family with high expectations for their child. But Marion was impatient, a hard worker, and was rude to everyone. He studied +2 science in his town. He was the topper of his school and was a scholar student. Though he was an honor student he was mostly avoided for his bad temper and rude behavior. As he mostly never talked to his classmates he had no friends. In the next month during an experiment conducted in the chemistry lab, Mairon mixed the wrong solution as he was impatient and caused an explosive material to form. The incident caused no casualties as Marion led everyone to safety. After the incident Marion got cocky thinking he was always right and was the only one who was better in the world, even though he knew there were many people around the world better than him. Marion had the knowledge that many don't. The knowledge for peace, popularity, and prosperity. But he never implemented it.
The next day Marion went to his class as usual. But as he was attending his class he was surprised to see a new student who was recommended to transfer to his high school. The new transfer student introduced himself as Eder Silva. After the regular class in the break Marion was assigned to show Eder around the school. While they roamed around the school area Eder tried talking to Marion even though he got ignored. Eder explained that due to his good grades and high reputation, that he was recommended to go to Mairon’s high school for higher studies but still Marion didn't care and escorted him back to the class and sat on his bench waiting for the next teacher to come.
A few months later in the mid-term exams, Marion became second in his class, as he soon saw that Eder had surpassed him and became the new topper of the class, he got angry but ignored that. Soon days after days, months after months Eder became the most popular student and took the title of scholar from Marion. Everything Marion was good at, Eder was better. Seeing all this Marion in rage charged towards Eder questioning if he was cheating in exams and how he was better at things than he was good at. Eder replied that just working hard is not the key to success. The door to success has no keys, the very patience, joy, and discipline open the door. Eder knew that Marion had the knowledge to do all that so Eder explained that knowing things was not everything and Marion should have applied the knowledge in the time needed. Applying the knowledge in the time of need would have led to the success Marion had initially desired. Imagining the future where he works at a 9-5 job with low wedges and with bad endings, Marion regretted being cocky and rude to everyone. From then on he started becoming friendly, disciplined, and a hard worker, he fulfilled and started taking joy in doing things. The story stops as Marion’s change creates a new future and a good ending.
