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By Varun Published about a year ago 4 min read
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When Suman came from the kitchen, she found her daughter Shyamli pacing restlessly in her room. A mother can understand what is going on in her child's mind just by looking at her child's body language. Suman understood on seeing Amli's face from her daughter that her daughter is upset and in the same trouble she is sometimes roaming here and there in her room... sometimes going there... sometimes sitting on the chair, and sometimes on the bed.

"What happened, Lado? Why is your mind restless? What are you thinking? Tell me too?" Suman asked her, sitting beside her daughter and stroking her head lovingly.

"Mama! What is the goal of my life? Why am I born? What is the purpose of my coming to this earth?" Shyamli said, looking at her mother, Suman.

"What is the matter that you started thinking these things? Why did these things start coming into your mind?" Suman asked her, looking like her daughter Shyamli.

"What will I do after the 12th exam? Am I not able to understand anything? You people are also worried about me. I have seen it! Both you and my father are worried about what I will study after 12th, that's why you guys gave it to me. Sometimes you say do MBBS.. sometimes you say do some course… sometimes you say do nursing course… I am so confused about what to do that I cannot understand. What will happen to me after the 12th, mamma?"

"Lado! Talks after the twelfth will be done only after the twelfth. Now you should start preparing for your twelfth exam wholeheartedly and don't think about anything else. Just sleep for some time and leave your mind completely calm and everything. Leave it on time. I believe that time will definitely bring a solution to this problem." After understanding her daughter's restlessness, Suman said while explaining to her.

Suman stroked her daughter's head and told her to "close your eyes and go to sleep." Her daughter Shyamli also closed her eyes and started trying to sleep. When Suman realized that her daughter had fallen asleep, she slowly got up and came to her room. Suman began to consider whether we were putting too much pressure on our daughter. Is she not getting the extra burden of her studies? Are we forcing her to do the course against her will? He probably over-thought all these things, and thus he is restless today. I have explained it to her, but she will not be able to forget it so soon. She has been compassionate since childhood and is aware of her future.

It would not have been even fifteen days since such an incident happened, which gave Shyamli the first ray of her life, which her heart wanted. It so happened that one day Suman was looking at the phone after completing all her work. He used to get less time from work, so he had downloaded apps of some news channels on his phone itself, due to which notifications of almost all the news were visible on his mobile. That day, Suman's eyes suddenly fell on such information, which brought happiness because this news was related to her daughter.

Suman's daughter Shyamli wanted to become an Air Force officer, and somewhere her father also had the same dream. Her father has a heartfelt wish that one day he should salute Suman. Suman's father is a military himself and wants his daughter to become an Air Force officer one day; he salutes his daughter in his uniform. Because Shyamli had this problem that she needed to graduate to become an Air Force officer, she needed clarification as to what to study and what not to study for graduation in the next three years; how to prepare?

Suman immediately forwarded the link to that message to her daughter Shyamli's mobile. Within a short time, a reply came on his WhatsApp. "True, Mama. Is this correct news?"

"Yes, my dear, when Supreme Court has said it will happen. However, earlier girls could not give NDA exams before graduation. Boys could pass this exam after the 12th, but girls have to graduate to give this exam. It was necessary to be, but for the first time, the Supreme Court ordered that girls can also appear for NDA after the 12th. Both Shyamli and Suman were happy after reading this news. When his father returned from his duty, both of them told this news to his father as well. Her father also wanted and understood that when the Supreme Court said the government would also have to accept this, the same thing happened only after 10 to 15 days of the Supreme Court's telling the government also announced this. Now, after 12th in NDA, boys and girls can also take this exam.

Suman's daughter Shyamli had gotten the first ray of her life. She quickly filled out the NDA form and started preparing for it and also started preparing for the 12th exam. Now Shyamli has got her first ray. With that ray's help, she works hard to fulfill her life's purpose. She and her entire family hope that the very first ray of her life will bring that golden moment when she will stand in front of her father as an Air Force officer and her father will salute her.

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Varun

Stories aren't made of language: they're made of something else... perhaps they're made of life

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