Twelfth Grade 2018
First Place: Angelina Serobyan, Aragatsavan
You are a kid’s imaginary friend but you find yourself slowly fading away as they grow older.
I want to tell you a little story about a beautiful times with a little girl.
Sinse birthday that girl never saw the light. When she born, the doctors said that they little girls is blind. Her parents wanted to do everything for her. They also brought many toyes, take her into beautiful plases and explane her everything, because they wanted to show her The Light. Her name was Tale, she was really like a little tale.
She played with toyes all the day, but to see them stayed the dream. Then the Little Tale started to create me. I wasn’t the usual imaginative friend for her. She couldn’t saw the Earth with her eyes, so she made her own. And I was the first resident in that new fantastic world.
I can’t saw what I was look like. I wasn’t like animal, or toyes, because she never saw it. Maybe I was a little like a spoilt potato or like a bakteria, but I was Tale’s best friend.
I also told her about a real life, we danced together, played, and I remember how she liked my little bag, in which I had everything that she dreamt about, and the beautiful song about friends, that we liked to sing together. I was the only light in her darkest Earth. I don’t know which colour I was, but that she saw me in dark, it mean I was lightly.
Then past years, we had beautiful times together. I loved her, and never dream that one day I can leave her, or live without her.
But there were one day, that I don’t know what happened, maybe she forgot me, but I know the one thing, that I started to slowly fading away. I missed her. I wanted to cry, but my tears was like a candyes, that Tale loved, and ate it all the times. I worry, I don’t know what to do, she wasn’t there and when I wanted to wait her, I understand how I’m disappearing.
But after some monthes, I fell a little smile first I don’t understand what it was but then I feel that Tale remember me again but not like the outher times, I saw me more beautifull, more colourful, because it was the first time that Tale saw me.
In that long time she had a surgery, and now she can saw the light, saw the Earth. I desapear again, but in this time forever. And that dark world in her mind started to get colourfull and with many new things. That big world was more beautiful then all kid’s imaginative lifes, because she create it with her mind, not only with eyes.
My beautiful story shows that the most beautiful things in this world you can’t see with eyes, you need just feel it.
Second Place: Elen Nahapetyan, Yerevan
You are a kid’s imaginary friend but you find yourself slowly fading away as they grow older.
“MAAARK!” I am screaming and shouting his name for hours. No answer. Is it the end? Is it the end of our friendship?
My time came. But I am so young for this. Mark is only 14. We had to have a long journey together but it comes to its last station - “The end”.
14.11.2001 - despite the end of my life I will never forget this date. Mark is 5. His fifth Halloween without candys.
After this we were always together. He was taking me to school, we were constantly talking, playing games. I remember how I was working as his personal councler every day. Talking to a girl. No problem. Hurt his bad friends. No problem! Argue with parents! Again no problems. Well, this was a joke. He was only arguing with his parents for eating candys. But We were best friends forever! At least I thought that our friendship was forever.
23.02.2012 - Probably another date that I remember quite well. He threw me! He entered his room, grabbed me and threw out of the window
Days after that he came carefully took me and put again near the window.
25.09.2013 - He closed me! Something that I would never imagined to happene. He put me into a box and… closed it. At some point I was thinking that maybe we are going to a new house. New home, new beginning. But… One day, two days, three days, and so on. I was still in this box waiting for someone to rescue me.
25.10.2013
14.11.2013 - “MAAARK” Here I am screaming his name for hours with despair. Deep in my heart I pronanly knew that our friendship was not forever. He was a kid but every day he grows up. New problems, new responsibilities, new Friends come to his life. And place for old becmes smaller and smaller, in his new World. I counted to one, two, three and said
Third Place: Narek Davtyan, Ijevan
You wake up in prison but you don’t belong there.
-it’s 12 a.m./I told myself by staring at my clock, it was pretty dark and I was tired as I had been working all day long. Yes, I talk to myself all the time. probably because there’s no one next to me to give me a piece of advice or just have a simple talk about this I was talking by myself and complaining about my life. today was actually one of those horrible days that seem like they last forever. but as people come and go this day also came to it’s end, and I was finally in my warm bed trying to heat my toes. it’s one of my most waited thing to do after work, I was working in seaside, so I never had a problem with being freesed. as I closed my eyes I analyzed my day. it was just a simple day. I went to work on the road I as usual licked a dog and then I started to tell a homeless person that he is lazy and that no one needs people like him, I like showing people how they really are. then at work my boss told me to recycle the trash but the recycling bin was pretty far so I threw it to the sea - why do I have to go to the recycling bin when there’s a sea 5 feet away from my window. I asked myself and as I pleased myself by approving all my steps
I slept like a baby.
Suddenly I wake up no in my bed, it was not worm and it didn’t smell the same way. I panicked.
I couldn’t find the answer, and I stoped fighting as time went on I more and more had sank into the feeling that I deserved being there.
As I spent almost 10 hours in that room, (I still had my watch with me) I started to just kill the time by thinking about the stuff that people of my age wouldnt thinking, I was thinking about the reason of the sky being blue. Or why leaves are green, and I kind of like it, I felt myself in the arms of my mom, when I was child, I lost both of my parents, didn’t have anyone live next to me, so I was angry. I was always angry and then when there was actually nothing left to think about I again analyzed my day. I remembered the dog, that homeless man, and the trash that should have been put in the trash not in the sea. was it right?
I asked myself, was it actually right? all those things I do each and every day? Something inside of me answered that question the answer was no, it wasn’t, and I heard a voice which was so missed that was the voice of my mum. I loved it and it made, so happy
My mom told me to stop. She told me that this is not who I’m.
I realised that I was lost from my way. I went to the other direction, the direction of loneliness, sadnness, and anxiety. I felt so guilty for what I’ve done and I wished that I could go back and tell sorry to all those people and even to that little dog.
I woke up.
-Whoa, what happened? I asked again.
And then I remembered everything and started to cry. As much as I could, and it felt so good all those emotions I killed inside of me. now I let them go I was fine.
Ps I checked my watch again. I found out that I was gonna be late from my work and I ran out so I could make it.
that day was different. I felt alive again that day I boug 1 huge piece of sasige and gave it to the dog. the I met that homeless person again and I told him sorry and he accepted it. I found out that he had had disability and he had been left just like me.
then I went to my boss, I told him every single thing I had done during workday, he actually told me to never come back there again but anyway I felt so good. I actually felt really good like I’ve never felt the same way since my childhood
that night I analysed everything again, but that time it was different I looked back to my whole life, realizing how many bad things I had done, and I found out that I was prisoned in that room not only for that 10 hours but my whole life, and the key was, kindness, tolerense, gratefulness. We all have that kys but we prefer being locked all our life.
You are a kid’s imaginary friend but you find yourself slowly fading away as they grow older.
I want to tell you a little story about a beautiful times with a little girl.
Sinse birthday that girl never saw the light. When she born, the doctors said that they little girls is blind. Her parents wanted to do everything for her. They also brought many toyes, take her into beautiful plases and explane her everything, because they wanted to show her The Light. Her name was Tale, she was really like a little tale.
She played with toyes all the day, but to see them stayed the dream. Then the Little Tale started to create me. I wasn’t the usual imaginative friend for her. She couldn’t saw the Earth with her eyes, so she made her own. And I was the first resident in that new fantastic world.
I can’t saw what I was look like. I wasn’t like animal, or toyes, because she never saw it. Maybe I was a little like a spoilt potato or like a bakteria, but I was Tale’s best friend.
I also told her about a real life, we danced together, played, and I remember how she liked my little bag, in which I had everything that she dreamt about, and the beautiful song about friends, that we liked to sing together. I was the only light in her darkest Earth. I don’t know which colour I was, but that she saw me in dark, it mean I was lightly.
Then past years, we had beautiful times together. I loved her, and never dream that one day I can leave her, or live without her.
But there were one day, that I don’t know what happened, maybe she forgot me, but I know the one thing, that I started to slowly fading away. I missed her. I wanted to cry, but my tears was like a candyes, that Tale loved, and ate it all the times. I worry, I don’t know what to do, she wasn’t there and when I wanted to wait her, I understand how I’m disappearing.
But after some monthes, I fell a little smile first I don’t understand what it was but then I feel that Tale remember me again but not like the outher times, I saw me more beautifull, more colourful, because it was the first time that Tale saw me.
In that long time she had a surgery, and now she can saw the light, saw the Earth. I desapear again, but in this time forever. And that dark world in her mind started to get colourfull and with many new things. That big world was more beautiful then all kid’s imaginative lifes, because she create it with her mind, not only with eyes.
My beautiful story shows that the most beautiful things in this world you can’t see with eyes, you need just feel it.
Second Place: Elen Nahapetyan, Yerevan
You are a kid’s imaginary friend but you find yourself slowly fading away as they grow older.
“MAAARK!” I am screaming and shouting his name for hours. No answer. Is it the end? Is it the end of our friendship?
- Maaark! Do you hear me? - I asked with a low voice. - Is it over? Don’t you see me?
My time came. But I am so young for this. Mark is only 14. We had to have a long journey together but it comes to its last station - “The end”.
14.11.2001 - despite the end of my life I will never forget this date. Mark is 5. His fifth Halloween without candys.
- I said no!
- But mommy.
- No “buts”! Candys are bad!
- Will you be my best friend? - he said by grabbing his toy
- Yes - I answered
- I will call you Mr. Bearly.
After this we were always together. He was taking me to school, we were constantly talking, playing games. I remember how I was working as his personal councler every day. Talking to a girl. No problem. Hurt his bad friends. No problem! Argue with parents! Again no problems. Well, this was a joke. He was only arguing with his parents for eating candys. But We were best friends forever! At least I thought that our friendship was forever.
23.02.2012 - Probably another date that I remember quite well. He threw me! He entered his room, grabbed me and threw out of the window
- Everything is your fault - he screamed - An 11 year old with a Teddy bear. Embarrasing!
Days after that he came carefully took me and put again near the window.
25.09.2013 - He closed me! Something that I would never imagined to happene. He put me into a box and… closed it. At some point I was thinking that maybe we are going to a new house. New home, new beginning. But… One day, two days, three days, and so on. I was still in this box waiting for someone to rescue me.
25.10.2013
- I see the light. Yes! He opens the box. Finally! - I was thinking when the box started to shake.
- Mr. Teddy, welcome to your new house - “The Kingdom of Unicorns and Pink.” - said Mark’s little sister.
- Mom, I broke the doll
- Mom, I broke Mark’s car
- Mom, I broke…, - and so on
14.11.2013 - “MAAARK” Here I am screaming his name for hours with despair. Deep in my heart I pronanly knew that our friendship was not forever. He was a kid but every day he grows up. New problems, new responsibilities, new Friends come to his life. And place for old becmes smaller and smaller, in his new World. I counted to one, two, three and said
- Goodbye, my big friend!
Third Place: Narek Davtyan, Ijevan
You wake up in prison but you don’t belong there.
-it’s 12 a.m./I told myself by staring at my clock, it was pretty dark and I was tired as I had been working all day long. Yes, I talk to myself all the time. probably because there’s no one next to me to give me a piece of advice or just have a simple talk about this I was talking by myself and complaining about my life. today was actually one of those horrible days that seem like they last forever. but as people come and go this day also came to it’s end, and I was finally in my warm bed trying to heat my toes. it’s one of my most waited thing to do after work, I was working in seaside, so I never had a problem with being freesed. as I closed my eyes I analyzed my day. it was just a simple day. I went to work on the road I as usual licked a dog and then I started to tell a homeless person that he is lazy and that no one needs people like him, I like showing people how they really are. then at work my boss told me to recycle the trash but the recycling bin was pretty far so I threw it to the sea - why do I have to go to the recycling bin when there’s a sea 5 feet away from my window. I asked myself and as I pleased myself by approving all my steps
I slept like a baby.
Suddenly I wake up no in my bed, it was not worm and it didn’t smell the same way. I panicked.
- did I die? I asked myself constantly. - Oh my Gosh, what’s going on here?
I couldn’t find the answer, and I stoped fighting as time went on I more and more had sank into the feeling that I deserved being there.
As I spent almost 10 hours in that room, (I still had my watch with me) I started to just kill the time by thinking about the stuff that people of my age wouldnt thinking, I was thinking about the reason of the sky being blue. Or why leaves are green, and I kind of like it, I felt myself in the arms of my mom, when I was child, I lost both of my parents, didn’t have anyone live next to me, so I was angry. I was always angry and then when there was actually nothing left to think about I again analyzed my day. I remembered the dog, that homeless man, and the trash that should have been put in the trash not in the sea. was it right?
I asked myself, was it actually right? all those things I do each and every day? Something inside of me answered that question the answer was no, it wasn’t, and I heard a voice which was so missed that was the voice of my mum. I loved it and it made, so happy
My mom told me to stop. She told me that this is not who I’m.
I realised that I was lost from my way. I went to the other direction, the direction of loneliness, sadnness, and anxiety. I felt so guilty for what I’ve done and I wished that I could go back and tell sorry to all those people and even to that little dog.
I woke up.
-Whoa, what happened? I asked again.
And then I remembered everything and started to cry. As much as I could, and it felt so good all those emotions I killed inside of me. now I let them go I was fine.
Ps I checked my watch again. I found out that I was gonna be late from my work and I ran out so I could make it.
that day was different. I felt alive again that day I boug 1 huge piece of sasige and gave it to the dog. the I met that homeless person again and I told him sorry and he accepted it. I found out that he had had disability and he had been left just like me.
then I went to my boss, I told him every single thing I had done during workday, he actually told me to never come back there again but anyway I felt so good. I actually felt really good like I’ve never felt the same way since my childhood
that night I analysed everything again, but that time it was different I looked back to my whole life, realizing how many bad things I had done, and I found out that I was prisoned in that room not only for that 10 hours but my whole life, and the key was, kindness, tolerense, gratefulness. We all have that kys but we prefer being locked all our life.