The girl of the bed hair

Every day was the same, the routine after waking up was to wait for about 30 seconds for my eyes to adjust to the environment. I had read in various publications that it was very important to allow the brain to adapt to the environment, as suddenly waking up and immediately getting up could cause cerebrovascular damage, leading to an aneurysm pumping blood to the brain and causing an immediate cardiovascular accident. So, every day, she would stand at the edge of her bed, wait a minute, and look at herself in the mirror. Her hair was all messy and wavy.

Despite living in a part of the world where she was surrounded by poverty and many shortcomings, one of those places that are forgotten by society and the world culture in some corner of ancient Africa, she was a young girl who always looked to the future with joy. With her messy hair, she would make little curls or buns. She would then put on her sandals, made of leather from animals that had died from lack of water, as the conditions where she lived were very extreme. There was no access to water, and it was very difficult to maintain livestock and their young. Only families with high status could afford it.

Thinking about all this, she would get up with great joy, put on her sandals, and wear her tunic, which she had inherited from her older sister before she managed to get a stroke of luck and study at the University of London, as destiny had favored her with a scholarship. She was the most important person in the village because of this event that had happened to her. However, our protagonist did not have the same luck, but she had the spirit to move forward. She would repeat to herself every day that if her sister could do it, she could too.

Full of dreams, she would write every day in the sand of her house because the floor where they lived was not cemented. There was not enough money to pour a cement floor, and whatever little they had was spent on clothes that were necessary to endure the high nighttime temperatures and sometimes on purchasing wood that they needed to cook the few meals they could find and to light up the night.

And so, even though she had messy hair when she woke up, this girl was an example for all the children living in these places, and despite their difficulties, they see the world in a positive way. Undoubtedly, they are an example for the current society and for many of us.