The Dilemma
A thousand thoughts were
swirling through her mind as she examined the crack on her laptop screen. The
black screen looked polluted from the white cracks. She felt her eyes bubbling
with tears and with a blink they spilled down her white cheeks. She had been
shaking from head to toe since she had dropped her laptop from her bedside
table. She spent hours thinking of what she would do next but nothing except
the image of her cracked laptop screen could stay in her mind.
She tried to clear her thoughts and looked out of the window. Living next to the beach was the only thing she liked about her life. She lived in a small apartment over a snack bar in which her mother spent most of her time. The small snack bar was the only source of income to this small family of two.
Outside the window, the coconut trees reached high into the sky as if they wanted to bring the stars down to the ground. Couple of coconuts hung in the midst of leaves just about to fall, looking like 3 brown bowling balls hanging on a thin breakable thread. The most beautiful feature was the multicolored sunset. The orange sunlight spread in horizontal lines, eventually merged into the blue starry sky and then all black. But then of course, even the magnificent nature couldn’t help solve her problem.
Another thought zoomed through her mind. Could it be possible to hide the laptop from her mother till she gathers enough money to get the screen fixed? She could work with a broken screen but she would not be able to hold the guilt in her heart of keeping something hidden from her mother, who raised her all by herself all these years. Her mother was her closest confidante, always wanted the best for her. She sent her to he best school, which was far too expensive for them but nevertheless, she did not want to make any kind of compromise when it came to educating her only daughter.
She had told her mother that she did not need the laptop even though she knew she couldn’t do without it but her mother had insisted and said, “I am not going to take any shortcuts in your education”. She still remembers the day they bought this most expensive gadget in the house and how her mother and she together had made rules like ‘no drinking and eating near the laptop’, in addition to adjusting their budget, they had to cut shot on other expenditure to compensate for this huge burden.
The last time a situation like this was built was when she had lost her first pen and couldn’t gather the courage to tell her mother about it. That night, when her mother sat down to tell her a bedtime story, she must have noticed her guilty expressions before she asked ‘is something wrong, sweetie?’ she blurted out the truth to her mother and it felt like a load off her shoulders as she let her tears flow. As a reaction her mother simply smiled and said ‘never be afraid of telling me the truth’ and she smiled when a new pen appeared in her pencil box the next day.
Thinking of how much her mother did for her from the beginning, she decided that it would be tantamount to a sin to keep this accident as a secret from her.She gained confidence in her honesty in every step she took towards her mother’s room. “Mom, I have to tell you something”
She tried to clear her thoughts and looked out of the window. Living next to the beach was the only thing she liked about her life. She lived in a small apartment over a snack bar in which her mother spent most of her time. The small snack bar was the only source of income to this small family of two.
Outside the window, the coconut trees reached high into the sky as if they wanted to bring the stars down to the ground. Couple of coconuts hung in the midst of leaves just about to fall, looking like 3 brown bowling balls hanging on a thin breakable thread. The most beautiful feature was the multicolored sunset. The orange sunlight spread in horizontal lines, eventually merged into the blue starry sky and then all black. But then of course, even the magnificent nature couldn’t help solve her problem.
Another thought zoomed through her mind. Could it be possible to hide the laptop from her mother till she gathers enough money to get the screen fixed? She could work with a broken screen but she would not be able to hold the guilt in her heart of keeping something hidden from her mother, who raised her all by herself all these years. Her mother was her closest confidante, always wanted the best for her. She sent her to he best school, which was far too expensive for them but nevertheless, she did not want to make any kind of compromise when it came to educating her only daughter.
She had told her mother that she did not need the laptop even though she knew she couldn’t do without it but her mother had insisted and said, “I am not going to take any shortcuts in your education”. She still remembers the day they bought this most expensive gadget in the house and how her mother and she together had made rules like ‘no drinking and eating near the laptop’, in addition to adjusting their budget, they had to cut shot on other expenditure to compensate for this huge burden.
The last time a situation like this was built was when she had lost her first pen and couldn’t gather the courage to tell her mother about it. That night, when her mother sat down to tell her a bedtime story, she must have noticed her guilty expressions before she asked ‘is something wrong, sweetie?’ she blurted out the truth to her mother and it felt like a load off her shoulders as she let her tears flow. As a reaction her mother simply smiled and said ‘never be afraid of telling me the truth’ and she smiled when a new pen appeared in her pencil box the next day.
Thinking of how much her mother did for her from the beginning, she decided that it would be tantamount to a sin to keep this accident as a secret from her.She gained confidence in her honesty in every step she took towards her mother’s room. “Mom, I have to tell you something”
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