The solution to my life occurred to me one evening while I was ironing a t-shirt. The Nike’s logo and Christiano Ronaldo’s picture on it, reminded me of the match, which Manchester United had won against Liverpool, last night. I wished I could be a footballer or cricketer or anything which could save me from studying all the time and worrying for my GPA. But there were lots of people who went against my wish; my parents, my grandpa, my uncle, my aunt, and many others. My uncle was himself a sportsman, but he also went against my wish, when I told my father that I was going to join a football club, near my home. I was not good at studying at all. I never felt embarrassed, whenever my friends achieved higher grades and I did not, because I knew that I was good at sports and they were not. Whenever they would ask me about my GPA, I would start talking about sports. I hated it, whenever anyone would ask me about my presentations, my assignments, my quizzes or anything about my results. Slowly and gradually I started hating my friends too. They all seemed nerds to me so, I started avoiding them. When they all were busy in taking down the lectures, I was busy thinking about the impending football matches and when they all were studying in the library, I was busy playing table tennis in the sports room.
I was preoccupied by these thoughts, when my t-shirt got burned. The Christiano Ronaldo’s picture was no more on it. It seemed as if, iron also went against my wish of playing like Ronaldo. I was really annoyed. I turned off the iron and started cursing the maid. If she had come, I would not have been pressing the t-shirt and it would not have burnt.
My sister immediately turned on the television and switched to the sports channel, because she knew it was the only way to calm me down. I really stopped cursing the maid, threw the t-shirt off, and laid my body on the sofa in such a way that I could easily watch the channel. But suddenly something came in my mind and...