Compilation of Stories

Honesty is Number One

Once up on a time there was a young boy with a quite thin and a little tall body named Awal, he lived with his family that consist of his parents, brother and of course his grandmother. Actually he was just an ordinary boy with a very simple dream in his mind, he just wanted to make his family honored and respected by people also he wanted people to understand how valuable the process of achieving something that you really wanted in your life. As we know most people only looked at the result, however not everything could be judged by seeing the result. The boy wanted to change society way’s of thinking, but that would not be something easy to do. He needed to move away from his family to search for knowledge and experience for that.

In high school, he might not the smartest among his friends. But, there was one thing that made him far different from his whole friends at school. He trusted himself to do every tasks and examinations, on the other hand most of his friends chose to break the rules for getting a really great rules. Some of the teachers might not really care with what heir student do, They did not really taking serious with rules that they gave to the student cause they did not want to struggle the student. But that made students disrespected them. In Awal mind, cheating or breaking rules in exam or doing task was something that would become the beginning of a big crime also Awal’s mom taught him for not cheating at school.

One day, he got english class at school then his teacher gave him a task to do. After that the teacher left the class for having a little rest for a while. Suddenly Awal's friend came to his bench and asked him something that related to the task itself.

"Hey Awal, how's your task ? Have you finished it ?"

"Almost there, I am in the last number now"

"Wow, you almost finish it already. That's really fast dude"

"Not really fast at all, I am doing it slowly so I could check it also"

"So, cause it seems like you almost finish it could I see your answer please"

"Why ?"

"Because you almost finish it"

"But, we have to do it ourselves cause this is task from the teacher. He wants to see our capability in this part"

"Come on just share your answer, otherwise he doesn't know if you give me the answer"

"Yup, but Allah knows it"

"Come on, just for this time please I beg you"

"I am sorry bu I can't give you the answer, what ever the condition cause the teacher wants to see our capability"

"Oh, come on. You are so stingy"

"Up to you"

Well, Awal's friend seem to be angry cause Awal did not want to tell the answer to him. Then he went to another student in the class and asked for the answer. Awal did not want to give answer cause for him it would make his friends depended to him and they would not want to look for the answer by themselves cause they could get it by asking for it. If you depended to your friends, you would not be able to become someone that you wanted.

Eventually, some teachers supported him with his way of studying and some just thought that he was just the same as the other students. What’s more his method made him lonely, cause people thought that he was arrogant and selfish. Eventhought the situation was like that, he was still fighting and not giving up. No matter what people said about him, he kept doing what he started and dreamed about since he was kid. After graduating from high school, Awal wanted to continue his college in a campus that is located far from his region, luckily his parents was not like some parents who did not want their child to go far away from them. Awal also very lucky cause he could enter collage without having any single of test at all, he was really grateful and finally he understood the benefit of things that he did for his entire high school life. Then he entered to the college for helping him achieving his dream and also creating a change.

The End