Her oriental face and beautiful smile could attract everyone to greet her all day long. She had enrolled to the University that she had chosen. Her long wavy hair, healthy skin, and her smile was stunning for everyone. Her name was Lisa, she loved to write a short story in order to entertain everyone around her. Rebecca, her mother was beautiful with her oriental face but she was poor. She lived with Lisa and it is far away from luxurious things. When she looked at her house, she was seeing on the dining room and thought that it was enough to survive even though the foods were as simple as her dress.
“Well, I think it is enough for breakfast with Lisa tomorrow”. She closed her eyes and the tears came out little bit. The rest of her life was dedicated to Lisa who run her college recently. She stopped thinking about sadness and she started to wait for Lisa came. Then, Lisa came home by knocking the door politely. Her mother opened the door by showing her beautiful face to Lisa. At that time, Lisa was tired and hungry. She took her shoes off, washed her hand and started to eat her mother cuisine.
“How’s this foods?”. Her mother asked.
“Mmmm.. it is delicious mom, we have to be grateful with all the things which god has given”.
“I’m sorry If I couldn’t serve you any kind of luxurious things until now, Lisa”. Her mother said to Lisa and held left Lisa’s hand.
Lisa stopped eating and said to her mother “It is no matter If we do not have any kind of luxurious things, in essence we have to be grateful.”
One morning, Lisa prepared to go to her college. She dress with her simple outfit which seemed not too glamour but it was still polite. After dressed up and had breakfast, she immediately went to college by cycling. Then, she arrived and entered to her class. She was one of the poorest girl in the class. Once, she entered into the class, she got attention from her friends because of her outfit. However, there were only five girls who felt pity with her and tried to invite her to get together with them.
“Hi, your name is?” asked her five friends.
“I’m Lisa, and you all?”.
They replied Lisa’s question one by one “I’m Chara, I’m Yuri, I’m Nichole, I’m Putri, and I’m Keyla”
“Nice too meet you, thanks for being my friends” said Lisa with her narrow smiling eyes.
Then, they became good friends. One day, they had assignment from their lecturer in which it was submitted next week. Then they were doing it together in Lisa’s house. Lisa had never felt ashamed with her circumstance. Therefore, they started to do their task immediately. Lisa was genius, she could transfer knowledge easily. Her friends were astonished by her cleverness and they were grateful because they had Lisa who were clever and kind. It was such a precious thing in the world.
“Lisa, we are so grateful to have you because you’re clever and very kind girl”. Said Nichole.
“I’m too, cause you have been my great friends”. said Lisa by showing her beautiful narrow smiling eyes.
They had done their homework and ready to present in front of class next week. Day by day left, the due date had come. They prepared and started to present their assignment in front of the class. Lisa seemed flawless in delivering her work to the audience and she also encouraged her friends to be like her. As the result, they had presented it well and got big applause from entire audiences. After that, Putri asked Lisa and others to celebrate their well done presentation by stopping by to luxurious restaurant.
“Emm.. I’m sorry I can’t go there cause I don’t have money to have foods there”. Lisa rejected politely.
“Don’t worry Lisa, I’ll pay it for you and others”. Said putri.
“Let’s join us Lisa, Putri is the richest girl in the world!” . Said Nichole by laughing.
And then, Lisa joined them to go to luxurious restaurant. It took ten minutes to get to the restaurant. She was feeling awkward because it was her first time eating the expensive foods. She was so quite and sometimes look at her friends seriously to recognize how to eat foods in the luxurious restaurant. At that time, they had ordered foods and started to eat their own foods. Her friends were happy because they could help her to experience the luxurious thing.
After having a great meal, they immediately came home because it was nine o’clock. They also do not forget to escort Lisa to her home. After they arrived in Lisa’s home, Lisa was thankful to them because they had paid it for her. She entered her house and her friends were starting to come home.
She took off her shoes and washed her hand and feet as well. Then she opened her book slowly back and forth, she wanted to write her diary about her excellent day with her friends today. She did not expect that her friends were so kind. Word by word she had been writing down and she started to take a rest. A pink blanket was covering her entire body and the night was going to be warm.
One morning, she woke up at six and prepared to go to college as usual. Her mother served her breakfast and sometimes her mother asked to Lisa about how was her study.
“Well, how’s your study Lisa? Is it going to be good?”. Asked her mother.
“Yups, it’s great mom. I can handle it”. She replied. That morning was colorful, the sun greeted her warmly and the cloud spread out stunningly. She took her bicycle and went to campus immediately. When she was on the way to campus, she saw a girl who drove a car turned right to the campus. Meanwhile, Lisa was starting to think that she wanted to have a car like that girl. But she realized she could not reach it due to her circumstance. After that, she run to her class in hurry because she was late. Her hand grabbed the door and pulled it up slowly. She was afraid of being scolded by her lecturer. Surprisingly, the lecturer permitted her to have a sit.
The class was going as usual. Her five friends were there with their dumbness. One of them, Putri was so quite and sometimes she stared at someone who sat down on the first row of the class. His name was Kevin, he was tall, handsome, and his medium straight hair could attract anyone. Putri seemed like him by staring at him and she tended to endure her chin on her hand.
“Why you’re so quite? What’s going on?”. Asked Nichole.
“Nope, I’m just wondering why Kevin is so handsome”. She replied with her face focused on him.
The class was over, all of pupils were leaving the class. They wanted to get together in canteen, but Putri rejected to go there because she wanted to approach Kevin. Then, the rest of them were going to canteen. All day long they did not get together with Putri. She seemed get closer with Kevin.
Two weeks left, surprisingly, Putri and Kevin were in relationship. She had never get together with them anymore. She tended to spent her leisure time with him. Meanwhile, there was a girl who was very rich. She was Shalsa, she was a girl who drove a car every day in campus. Her dress was stylish and she was arrogant person in a campus.
Meanwhile, Keyla and Yuri felt not too comfortable enough with Lisa, Nichole, and Chara because they were not rich person. Then Keyla and Yuri aim to approach Shalsa in order to get glamour life If they were being Shalsa’s friend. Their mission was accomplished, they were being friends right now and leave Lisa, Chara, and Nichole.
One day, Shalsa was scolded by the lecturer because she was always late at the class. She replied to her lecturer rudely. At that time, the class was so quite and she was repelled by the lecturer. Without thinking longer, she went down and took her car. She wanted to come home but suddenly she got accident which she had to loose her sight.
The news was spread out so fast in campus. Lisa heard it and she wanted to go to Shalsa’s house. In Shalsa’s house, Lisa started to knocked the door politely. Then, Shalsa’s servant opened the door and asked “Well, who are you?”. Lisa replied politely “I am Lisa who a friend of Shalsa”. “Well, come in Lisa!”. The servant allowed Lisa to enter. At that time Shalsa was crying all the time because she could not see anymore. But Lisa was trying to entertain and calm her down. Lisa was aiming to invites her to go to rooftop in the center of the town. Then, Shalsa’s driver escort them to go there.
On the rooftop, Lisa took over to start the conversation.
“Well, I think you don’t have to be sad because I thought that you’re very rich. You can buy what you want and you can go somewhere you wanted”.
“Buying a bunch of stuffs and go somewhere is easy for me, but it doesn’t mean that I’m rich. Look at me now, I can’t see anymore, my parents are so busy, they don’t have enough time to meet with me. I think you’re richer than me Lisa because you’re still able to see this beautiful world, having a great mother, and best friends such as Chara and Nichole”. She revealed her feeling with her tears was coming out.
Meanwhile, Lisa was so quite and contemplating and said to herself,
“Thank you God. I am so grateful with all the gifts that you had given”.

Written by : Syahrial Achmad Al Imami