Translation Exercise - 52

Sunita and Sangeeta were two very good friends. Together they completed their studies and simultaneously appeared for the twelfth class examination. When the results of the twelfth class came, Sunita scored much better marks than Sangeeta, Sangeeta was very disappointed, while Sunita was on the seventh heaven. Sunita was admitted to St. Stephen’s, one of the best colleges in Delhi University, and Sangeeta had to enrol in a normal college. Sangeeta became very worried about her career, she felt that she would not be able to excel after studying from a normal college and started to blame herself for all that. Sangeeta’s mother realized that those days she remained a little sad and nervous. When she asked Sangeeta the reason for that, Sangeeta told that she thought Sunita would do exceedingly well and Sangeeta’s journey would be near its ending. Mother called Sangeeta closer to herself and explained that it was very wrong to think so, college is just a small beginning in life and she would get lots of opportunities to prove herself. Sunita was like almost spoilt; travelling around and partying till late night had become her habit. From studies or anything related to it, now she had no relation with, she was distant from it. In college exams too, she started to pass by wrong means, she had stopped studying, so how would she be able to answer the questions. In the midst of all this, Sangeeta was studying wholeheartedly as advised by her mother and removed the college thing from her mind. Sangeeta started topping the class and was excelling in all other types of activities as well. When a year passed, Sangeeta and Sunita went out for a day together, before college, they used to travel a lot together but now due to being indifferent colleges, they could get very little time with each other. They both went to visit Pragati Maidan, there was a book fair in which people from many countries of the world had come. There, a company was conducting a competition in which the best speaker would get a chance to work with the company for three months.