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Narrate an experience of your own that has helped you to realise that ‘Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.’ Write it in your notebook, in about 20 lines.
Solution
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet! It was Rousseau, a philosopher from Geneva. Switzerland who said, Patience is bitter. but its true Is sweet.
I realized the truth of this statement when I was in Std. X. It was an important year for me. My school was far from my home. So were my classes. I had to spend a lot of time walking in order to reach either school or classes. This meant a lot of waste of precious time that I could use very well for study.
I was an only child and my father had passed away four years ago. My mother would tell me, Have patience. Things will work out. But I really could not understand her.
The rainy months passed by with me trudging anxiously to school or to the classes. If I was lucky.
someone would give me a lift. My studies were suffering. I was lagging behind in keeping up with homework and revision.
Then one day the postman delivered a letter Mother read it in excitement.
"You know what? There Is good news. Your uncle from the US is coming to visit us. He is your dad's brother. The last time he saw you was when you were a baby
"Oh. I said, wondering how that could be good for us. On the contrary, I would have to take my uncle visiting and that would take up more of the time I required for the earnest study.
The day arrived. My uncle came over. A jolly fellow. full of stories and fun and small delightful gifts. In the afternoon I took his leave saying I had to go to school and then classes.
'How are you going to? he asked.
I put my head down and said, 'Walking
"Come, I'll take you by autorickshaw, he said. And so we went.
"It's quite a distance, my uncle commented.
I nodded silently
In the evening when I came home, I could not believe my eyes. There, resting against the wall was the most beautiful bicycle I had ever seen.
Mother and my uncle came out to greet me
This is yours, boy. No more walking long distances for you!
Tears welled up in my eyes and I ran and hugged my uncle.
Thank you so much,' I said. Indeed, my patience had been rewarded with sweet fruit!
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