Second Year University 2015
First Place: Ann Sargsyan, Ijevan
You are alone on a hike in the wood. You come across a 374 year old woman. What do you learn from her?
One morning I woke up and decided to go on a hike in the woods. It was a nice, sunny day. Suddenly I saw an old woman sitting beside the river and looking at her reflection. I came up to her and started to speak to her. I found out that she was 374 years old. I got astonished. Was that really possible? Then she answered that everything was possible in this world. It was really interesting to have a conversation with her. As she lived such a long life, there was lots of things to learn from her. She gave me some advices about the life, the people and their relations. She said that there is on good or bad man in the world, on the contrary, all the people are the unions of bad and good. So I shouldn’t adore or hate them for their this or that action, and I shouldn’t expect anything from the others. When you wait for something it may not happen and you’ll get disappointed, but if you live just for this very moment and don’t espect anything some time ago something wonderful can happen to you. She said that life was not easy, but it didn’t mean that it’s a hard job. You just must be wise enough to find your way and take it straightly. A man is an unknown world whom you can’t recognize and understand wholly, and the same for their relations. They are so changeable and uncertain that you could even think that it’s not the person whom you knew. And at last she gave me an advice which I could forget for ll of my life.
She said, “Be yourself! It’s the only way not to get loss in this world.”
Second Place: Vanuhi Vanesyan, Ijevan
You are alone on a hike in the wood. You come across a 374 year old woman. What do you learn from her?
As it is a little bit difficult for me to imagine this situation, I just try to present it.
At first I had been surprised or a little bit afraid, but then I’d have a conversation with her, and it was interesting enough. When I understood that she was not the one of whom I may afraid I asked her to tell me the secret of her long living. So the more I listened to her stories the more interesting they became. She told me a special skills that I could use in my life to have a success. She gave me very good advise, advise that no one had ever given me. It found out that she had been a poor girl and never liked people who showed their property. She never asked someone for something even if she was very hungry. And after these difficult days full of obstacles she started to understant the value of life. She told me to be always clever, sage and to help people if they needed.
So she didn’t want to continue anymore but I insisted. So she told me that before being poor her family had been the richest of one in her country and everyone respected them and had taken care of her. But one day it had been an accident and everyone thought they had died. So they divided their property between them. She managed to save her life and after passing months she wanted to try the people who had been very kind to her once. But everything had been already changed. And on one received her as before.
Then I asked her how she managed to live so long. She continued telling me that after the accidend she find herself alone in the forest and a aged woman took care of her. Hearing this I was shocked as it was the same situation. But then she told that that woman had given her a small candy like thing wanted me to eat it. She told her that it was good for her health and it worthed her. After eating it that old woman could predict others life, future and fortune, helped them all.
Then she took me a little room like place in a tree, but it was not the same it was a very good palace made of gold.
So I learned that the candy-like thing gave her immortality and she made big fortune by this. In the end she told me to be petient never scorn any kind of people. Then on the way to coming back I found candy like in my pocket.
She was a really smart woman and I have many things to learn from her stories.
You are alone on a hike in the wood. You come across a 374 year old woman. What do you learn from her?
One morning I woke up and decided to go on a hike in the woods. It was a nice, sunny day. Suddenly I saw an old woman sitting beside the river and looking at her reflection. I came up to her and started to speak to her. I found out that she was 374 years old. I got astonished. Was that really possible? Then she answered that everything was possible in this world. It was really interesting to have a conversation with her. As she lived such a long life, there was lots of things to learn from her. She gave me some advices about the life, the people and their relations. She said that there is on good or bad man in the world, on the contrary, all the people are the unions of bad and good. So I shouldn’t adore or hate them for their this or that action, and I shouldn’t expect anything from the others. When you wait for something it may not happen and you’ll get disappointed, but if you live just for this very moment and don’t espect anything some time ago something wonderful can happen to you. She said that life was not easy, but it didn’t mean that it’s a hard job. You just must be wise enough to find your way and take it straightly. A man is an unknown world whom you can’t recognize and understand wholly, and the same for their relations. They are so changeable and uncertain that you could even think that it’s not the person whom you knew. And at last she gave me an advice which I could forget for ll of my life.
She said, “Be yourself! It’s the only way not to get loss in this world.”
Second Place: Vanuhi Vanesyan, Ijevan
You are alone on a hike in the wood. You come across a 374 year old woman. What do you learn from her?
As it is a little bit difficult for me to imagine this situation, I just try to present it.
At first I had been surprised or a little bit afraid, but then I’d have a conversation with her, and it was interesting enough. When I understood that she was not the one of whom I may afraid I asked her to tell me the secret of her long living. So the more I listened to her stories the more interesting they became. She told me a special skills that I could use in my life to have a success. She gave me very good advise, advise that no one had ever given me. It found out that she had been a poor girl and never liked people who showed their property. She never asked someone for something even if she was very hungry. And after these difficult days full of obstacles she started to understant the value of life. She told me to be always clever, sage and to help people if they needed.
So she didn’t want to continue anymore but I insisted. So she told me that before being poor her family had been the richest of one in her country and everyone respected them and had taken care of her. But one day it had been an accident and everyone thought they had died. So they divided their property between them. She managed to save her life and after passing months she wanted to try the people who had been very kind to her once. But everything had been already changed. And on one received her as before.
Then I asked her how she managed to live so long. She continued telling me that after the accidend she find herself alone in the forest and a aged woman took care of her. Hearing this I was shocked as it was the same situation. But then she told that that woman had given her a small candy like thing wanted me to eat it. She told her that it was good for her health and it worthed her. After eating it that old woman could predict others life, future and fortune, helped them all.
Then she took me a little room like place in a tree, but it was not the same it was a very good palace made of gold.
So I learned that the candy-like thing gave her immortality and she made big fortune by this. In the end she told me to be petient never scorn any kind of people. Then on the way to coming back I found candy like in my pocket.
She was a really smart woman and I have many things to learn from her stories.