The Girl Who Wished Books Would Grow
By Yaari. S
Tara was a baby when she entered the library at home for the first time. She was amused, and she tried helping herself by opening the books and staring at the pictures for hours. When her papa stepped into the library that day, he was beyond shocked to see that eye-popping scene.. he realised his daughter has got a liking for books. From that day onwards, he told her stories day and night, in fact.. every single day. As she grew up, he taught her alphabets, words and sentences, bought her books every week, and at last, she became an avid reader like her papa. She read whenever she had time. Books were her best companions after Papa.
But that one thing Tara didn’t like about books was that, when they got tastier and delicious.. she couldn’t help herself but read and read to know what lies ahead, curiosity will eat her up until that very last page.. and then she would cry, “Oh, how I wish you had more pages.. why, why can’t you just grow like papa and me.. nobody ever stopped you from doing that.. why, why, why?”, With that, she would close the book with a sigh. Tara questioned her Papa almost daily about why the pages of books could not grow. To which he did laugh, then he would pick her up, then kiss a sweet kiss on her forehead, but she never got the answer she wanted.
Let me tell you, though you and I believe that this wish of hers wouldn’t happen.. no matter what, but it did.. the pages grew one day!
Tara believed in the Almighty with all her heart. She loved listening to the stories of God more than any other story. Hence, she decided.. “As there is nothing in the world that God cannot change, I will pray to Him.. I am sure he would have my long-lost-desire fulfilled” and she prayed every single day and night, without a break.
Then, one fine morning.. when she opened the book she had finished the previous night for some unknown reason, there she saw right in front of her eyes the pages growing and growing even though she was so sure it had only 282 pages… And that I say, is the true power of prayer!
Tara with her eyes full of tears got up from bed and headed straight to her papa and with a smile, she told “Oh papa, didn’t I sound funny all the times I asked you why didn’t the pages of a book grow… but now, here, see to yourself.. the pages are growing!?”
©Yaari. S