🙏🙏🙏Short Story by Zirwa Naoum of Grade 3C🙏🙏🙏

 Ruby’s Worry

Ruby was a little girl who was very joyful and playful. She loved to sing, explore faraway places and even went all the way to the bottom of the garden. She was a very happy girl.

One day she found something, a WORRY! At first, it wasn’t a big worry. It was a tiny one, so much so, that Ruby hardly noticed it. But as the days passed, the worry started growing. Each day, the worry became bigger and bigger. It was there everywhere, it followed her wherever she went. It was there at the breakfast table when Ruby was having her favorite cereals. It was there in the washroom when Ruby was brushing her teeth. The strangest thing was that no one else was able to see this WORRY, not even her teacher. So Ruby pretended to not see it too. She tried to go on as if everything was normal, but sadly, the worry would not leave her. Ruby wondered if this worry would ever leave her. Little did Ruby realize that she was doing the worst thing with a worry, she was worrying about it! The worry tagged along wherever she went, in her school bus, the cinema, etc. The worry became the only thing that Ruby would think about.

One day Ruby happened to notice a boy sitting alone in the park. He looked just how Ruby felt, sad. And then she noticed something else next to the boy, a WORRY. Ruby realized that she wasn’t the only person with it, other people had it too. When she went to the boy and started talking to him, the strangest thing happened. The boy’s worry began to shrink. Then Ruby also started to share her thoughts and as the words came out, Ruby’s worry began to shrink until it was all gone. Finally Ruby felt like her old self, full of joy and happiness.

 

What Ruby finally understood is, worry happens to everybody from time to time. It is about sharing the worries to somebody, no matter how big or small they may be.

Zirwa Naoum

Grade 3 C