Madaminova Mahfuza
Madaminova Mahfuza – UrSU
1st year student of the Faculty of Philology
You know what’s the worst thing for me? When I was studying at school and at the university, whenever someone started talking about some work that I didn’t read or didn’t know or even heard of, I especially said: “Have you read it?” If they ask, I will be ashamed. I like to read books, only if the Supreme Judge has enough time to read them all. That’s why I quickly read the books I heard from someone and those I didn’t read in a notebook. At least, I would not miss the books that fell out of my sight. After reading those books, I would discuss them again.
One day I saw a presentation of a book on TV and I was interested in that book and decided to look for it. As usual, I wrote it down in my notebook. Then my mother asked with interest:
-What are you secretly writing?
-Why will it be secretly now? Feel free to see the list of my unread books.
Then my mother was surprised:
-To the black book? As for me, I thought that if my daughter has pains and sufferings, I should write them in the notebook.
-My mother, what can pain do to me? Just a list of books.
-It would be possible to write this in another notebook. What else do you expect from cold things?
I replied:
-These are my shortcomings that cannot be justified and hidden. When this list is finished, then I will give up this notebook and correct my shortcomings, even if they are few.