Childhood Memories

This is some recollections of  a friend of mine

“Friends are one of the things we need most in our life and I’ve had a lot of them through my school years and now at the university.  As a little girl, though, I was a lonely girl, persecuted by the other girls of my class because I was different. They all lived in the same neighborhood, shared the same games and knew each other well, and so they used to accuse me of stealing their pens and erasers when we all knew they have fallen under the ground. Anyway, I was all alone against them, no one to defend or protect me and the teacher wouldn’t listen to my pleas. It could have been the same path for all my years at this school since my parents didn’t know the way they acted upon me and wouldn’t have thought of taking me to another school, but the boys were nice with me and then came other girls who became friends with me. It was so wonderful to have new friends, playing the games I used to watch just from afar, feeling like belonging at last. However good this was, it didn’t last long because with time, every girl found their “best friend”, everyone but me. On my last year there, a girl from another region came into our class and she’d been thrown under my wings by the teacher who considered me as an intelligent girl and wanted me to help her, her name was Marie. Even if she was older than I, she became a little like my pupil, I petted her and guided her, she was “my” best friend, just mine. Unfortunately, she didn’t make the exam, I wasn’t much of a good guide, and I never saw her ever again, just once, she was going to accompany her cousin to school but she didn’t go there herself because Marie’s parents couldn’t afford to. It was a failure for me at this young age of eleven, I was responsible of her in class. I  would never forget those early years.”

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