I Want To Be A TV

ESSAY FROM A CHILD

A teacher from Primary School asks her students

to write an essay about what they would like

God to do for them...

At the end of the day while marking the essays,

she read one that made her very emotional.

Her husband, that had just walked in saw her

crying and asked her:- What happened?

She answered - Read this. Its one of my students

essays.

Oh God, tonight I ask you something very special:

Make me into a television.

I want to take its place. Live like the TV in my

house. Have my own special place, and have my

family around ME.

To be taken seriously when I talk....

I want to be the Center of attention and be

heard without interruptions or questions.

I want to receive the same special care that

the TV receives when it is not working.

Have the company of my dad when he arrives

home from work, even when he is tired.

And I want my mom to want me when she is

sad and upset, instead of ignoring
me... and... I want my brothers to fight to be

with me... I want to feel that family just

leaves everything aside, every now and then,

just to spend some time with me.

And last but not least make it that I can

make them all happy and entertain them...

God I dont ask you for much... I just want to

live like every TV.

At that moment the husband said: - My God,

poor kid. What horrible parents!

She looked up at him and said: That essay is

our son!!!

So true isnt it?

After coming back from work or school we

immediately switch it ON and are glued to it

for hours together.

If our mom, dad, brother or sister wants to

have a word with us the expectation is only

after completion of a serial or sports match

isn’t it. We get doubly irritated if anyone

interrupts in between our TV show.

But do we show the same dedication in reading

Quran or offering Namaz/Solah.
We always tend to complete it at the earliest

as if someone has tied us up with the

responsibility which we are fulfilling for the

sake of fulfilling it.

Lets hope Insha Allah in coming days we also

are glued and are fully busy in reading Quran

and also offering our prayers....