“Why don’t you just note down this summary? You’re wasting my time with a nonsense question.” Karen complains to her friend.
1919
“Is our world beautiful” History teacher asked the students in one elementary class. He smiled when the children tried to describe the flower, the cloud, their favorite clothes, or their new pencil cases.
“No, teacher” one little girl raised her hand up and said her thought unknowingly. “My father and brother are often exhausted from hard work in the Lord's farm, and my mother always groans every time she sees the creditor. My oldest sister once said to me that her husband is a scamp who only thinks of himself. I see no happiness in my family. So I think this world is not beautiful.”
“So, what is the beautiful world in your mind,” The teacher asked gently.
“The beautiful world has no greedy, has no brawling, no sadness, and no destitution. In the beautiful world, all people smile and laugh. The families are happy. We live along nature and nature lives along with us. That my beautiful world, teacher.” Karen answered joyfully.
“That’s the most beautiful world, Karen. I see it. So, how will you do to make the world beautiful as you said?”
Karen thought awhile before intently answered, “I won’t lose my belief, so I can make it happen.”
“Keep this in your mind. You come the right way.”
This was his last word to Karen.
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12 years later
“I didn’t mean to waste your time, this news just pops up in my phone ‘The 60-year-old former history teacher died in the protest against government…’”
Karen tries not to listen to her friend. ‘My goal is just to get 50 out of 100 points to pass this quiz. So, I can ask my boyfriend to bring me to that amazing nightclub, and my stepfather will give me some of his cigarettes.’ she thinks.
“The police said the man had claimed about the beautiful world. How poor he was to do such a stupid thing. He should follow the nation’s rule so that he wouldn’t die. Hey! Karen! he came from your hometown. Do you know him?”
Her friend shows the picture of that man on her phone to Karen.
“No.” Karen just glances.
“Well! Is our world now beautiful? Don’t be so edgy, just answer me.”
Karen looks at her friend with an annoying face for a moment.
“Yes, it is.” She said nonchalantly.
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