Mistakes
“Ben! Come here this
instance!” shouted mom.
On hearing his
mother’s intimidating voice, Ben scrammed to the kitchen.
“What happened mom?”
Ben asked in fear and confusion.
“What is this? Didn’t I tell you to put the
cake back into the fridge after you have eaten your share?” shouted mom
angrily. She had gone red in the face.
“I’m so sorry mom! It’s
just that I was so tired last night that I forgot to put it back.” replied Ben.
“Well, go now. This
mistake shouldn’t happen again”, reacted his mother in a milder tone.
Ben is an average teenager
who has just began his O levels, but he is not even a small bit serious towards
his academic progress. Neither does he concentrate in the class, nor has he
ever done his homework on time. He has failed to do justice with his notebooks,
which are filled with random doodling and what not. His hot favourite interests are either to
play football, or to have a session of pointless chatting with his friends during
and after his lessons. Ben has been repeating all his mistakes to the extent that
now they have become a part of his life.
One cold, Monday
morning, Ben headed for the school without fulfilling his homework in Science,
Mathematics and Geography, most of which was assigned to him on previous Friday.
At half past ten, his Maths period started. Everyone submitted their homework,
except for Ben. When the teacher asked him to submit the homework, he started
making up lame excuses to defend himself. His teacher was well aware of his attitude,
so he punished him by demanding to do the assignments thrice.
Not long afterwards,
his teacher returned the tests which were taken on the previous Wednesday. As
always, Ben had not performed well, mainly because of his non-serious attitude
towards studies. In the exam, he had done numerous silly mistakes, which were completely
unacceptable for a student at his level.
When he reverted back
from school at 3 p.m., he was so tired that he fell asleep the moment he hit
his bed. He woke up in the evening and had his supper and evening tea. When Ben
started his homework, which was only because he had received punishment from
his teacher, he absent-mindedly started using his father’s official note-book,
which had important agreements with companies written all over it.
The following day, his
father received a call from his boss, asking him to bring the agreements on the
following day as he wanted to have a look at the agreements made with other companies.
His father skimmed through his bag, but that notebook was nowhere in sight. He
searched for the copy in every nook and corner of the house, and as he suspected,
he found it in Ben’s bag. He was utterly shocked to find all that mess his
pampered child had created on different pages. Infuriated, he shouted out “Hey,
you silliest creature! Where are you? Come over here!!” And soon he was showing
Ben all those nonsensical doodles he had poured out there. “Do you know I might
be kicked out of this job if my boss happens to see what you’ve done here?”
He kept speaking for
long, advising him to be careful in future. “Let me now think of a way out…”
was the last sentence after which Ben was permitted to move back to his own
world.
Keeping Ben’s example in
view, it can be said that many small mistakes give rise to big problems, which
can cost someone dearly. That is why we should always keep an eye out for
things and try to learn from our mistakes.
Written
by:
Muhammad
Zohair Sardar
O-1 Jinnah
PakTurk Schools, Islamabad
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