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Soni the Girl Who Turned Into A Star
What would you say if a friend from your class told you she could become a star in the sky. You wouldn't believe it, would you? But then later on, you might start thinking what it would really be like to become a star.
How would it be to see your life and the whole world from far far above? Would you still be the way you are now? Would you still be bothered by all those things that seem so big from down here but actually look so small from up there? Or would you instead see how beautiful everything around you is and how every day is a whole new opportunity to be happy and enjoy life. How silly it was to be so annoyed by small daily things when actually we are experiencing something so big and beautiful within our wondrous world and our precious life. If you start thinking that way you begin to understand our friend Soni, the girl who turned into a start.

"I have a secret," said Soni, a girl from my class, when we were sitting together in the schoolyard one day, "but you have to promise not to tell anyone."

"I promise," I said. I was curious.

Soni looked left and right and then she whispered in my ear, "Every night when I go to sleep I turn into a star in the sky, and in the morning, when I wake up, I go back to being an ordinary girl."

"That's impossible," I said, "You must be dreaming. I don't believe a word of it."

"I knew you wouldn't believe me," Soni smiled, "but I wanted to tell you anyway, so you'd know. One day, if you want me to, I'll prove it to you."
And then she went off to play.

Over the next few days I thought about what Soni had said.
She couldn't possibly be telling the truth, but she sounded so sure of herself, and she said she could show me… I couldn't stop thinking about it so at last I told her that I really wanted to know.