UNFORGETTABLE IINCIDENT

WHEN I WAS 12 YEARS OLD

One day my parents had gone to attend a function along with my younger sister and brother. I was left at home with my grandmother because I had to prepare for my exam which was going to be held the next day. It was in the afternoon and my grandmother was taking a nap. So I sneaked out and started playing around. The toys soon bored me and I looked around for something new. The unique thing which caught my attention was my grandma’s spectacles. I put it on my nose just in the style of my grandma and looked around. Wow! Everything looked strange. There are two tube lights in the room, two fans, two tables. Everything was multiplied.

Soon my eyes got tired. As I felt pain in my eyes, I removed the specs and threw them away. Oh! They struck the wall and landed on the ground but not in good condition. The right side was lying in the frame and half a few feet away on the ground. Now I got worried and afraid. I thought that this pair of spectacles was very dear to my grandma because she always put them on.

I started thinking how to repair it. Thinking hard I hit upon a plan. I went inside the kitchen, took one of the glasses which my mother had brought yesterday, took a knife and sat beside the seriously injured specs. Now I tried to cut the glass with the help of knife. On failing in my attempts to do so I struck the glass on the ground. It broke into four or five small pieces, more than I needed. I started to match the size of the broken glass pieces with that of the specs. As I was holding glass pieces I felt a severe pain in my right hand. I looked at it and saw the blood. It was trickling down from a deep cut in my hand. On this sight my heart got afraid and I started crying loudly.

On hearing my voice my grandma woke up. She hurriedly came out of her room, took a quick glance on my adventure and detecting the source of my trouble she pressed her hand on my hand for sometime and then she took me to the doctor for bandaging.

I was very much afraid of punishment but my grandma forgave me although she had to suffer difficulty until the glasses were repaired. However I was naturally punished as I could neither eat my meals nor do my homework for three days.

I have learnt a lesson for a lifetime which is:

"The children shouldn’t play with the things which they are advised not to touch. If they have done some damage they should tell the elders about this truthfully, instead of adding to the damage and the injury."