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Vardan Arshakouni's Stories

• untitled (Stories About Spring)
• “How to Solve Difficult Problems” (Youth & Peace)

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untitled (Stories About Spring)

It was spring. My father told me that he had missed my grandpa. So he took us to Goris to visit him. It was a shiny day. I didn’t feel that I was tired on the way. My cousin told me that the lizards are on the stones now because it was warm day. He told me to catch a lizard and take it to Yerevan. When we were getting close to the lizards they were running away from us. We could only catch the tail of the lizard. I tried for three days but I was catching only the tails of the lizards. My grandpa told me that the tails of the lizards are turning into money. So we think that if the tails of Vardan turned into money we would become millioners. If you keep the tail of the lizard in your pocket you will become rich. I’m not against to become a rich person, but I won’t keep the tail in my pocket, because I hate it.

Wrote at 9 years old age

“How to Solve Difficult Problems” (Youth & Peace)

People are amazing. Now they fight, now they reconcile with one another. Why can't they always live in peace? People have always made wars. Why is it so? There would be no wars if people could learn to forgive the little things.
Take my friend and me, we fight often. When we were enemies and not friends yet, my mind was always occupied on the way to school with the various ways I could beat him. The same was true for him. Once we became tired of everyday fights, we made up our minds to find out the cause of our fights. Our long discussion didn't help us figure out the cause. Now we are good friends. Can't the adults do the same? Can't they sit down and figure out the offense and just reconcile?
Besides, I don't like the adults saying we, the children, are their future and the planet is going to be ours. They say this but do the opposite by destroying everything around us. We won't have a place to live, if they don't stop doing this.

Wrote at 10 years old age