Tuesday, September 15, 2009

A bored gifted student....

Nina was over the top when she achieved all As' for the final year examination.However, deep down she is not so surprised about her achievement as she knows that obtaining all As' was as easy. She has just completed her final year at high school and had applied for a scholarship to one of the most prestigious and honoured university,Harvard.No doubt her application would be approved as a result of her outstanding achievements.Well, a girl like Nina certainly deserves to be acknowledged and awarded.In school,she was rather quiet but often approachable.She definitely did not carry with her a nerdy personality.She looks pretty simple and like most of the blonde girls at her age.She was 16, tall and skinny in figure with freckled fair skin and had long blonde hair crowning her.Her hair was wavy and had big curls dancing just above her shoulders when she let loose of them.Her usual hairstyles are French plait,high ponytail or pigtails.Nina had one resemblance of a nerd, which is her thick spectacles which she has been wearing since elementary schooling days.Nina is in fact a very lucky child for the very reason that she has received many awards and sponsorships since young which helped her to continue her studies up to high school.Many organizations were willing to sponsor her for they knew that she was bright and capable.As a privileged child, her efforts were fruitful as she always burns the midnight oil and work hard on her studies.However, she had not been excited at all about her accomplishments.Nina is questioning herself matters she never thought of before.She knew that her life was almost coming to an end once she steps out of high school.She was afraid to face the real world.She was not a skilled speaker nor a loud person in nature.She mugs her subjects day and night and that is she is good at.At this point in time, she started to feel fear in her.She was also not interested in learning anything new in life.Her mother, Annie James who lost her husband in an accident three years ago tried so hard in pushing her daughter to learn cooking or at least weaving.Nina, being only skillful at answering examination questions neglected all of her mother's suggestions.At the age of sixteen,she is just a girl who is gifted with a brilliant brain but knew nothing about other aspects of the world.Now,living her life in wonders she spends her time by counting the number of flowers found in her garden or combing her hair at least a fifty time a day or folding and unfolding her wardrobe contents.She feels completely useless and is helpless.Nina once had many opportunities to mingle with her peers and was even once asked out for a date but she turned all those offers down.She had wasted the moments where she could have gone out there to discover her true self.Sadly, she now kills her time in her bedroom by staring at the sombre looking yellow walls and ridiculously trying to count the strands of her hair.She had a life with ample opportunities which she did not utilize.Although she did succeed academically. but zero in learning to live with the world.It was her self-denial attitude that caused her to suffer this way and yet she made no attempt to conceal her boredom.