My Happiness

The 28-th of December of 1999. This is the darkest day of my life. I have never forgotten this day and I will never forget it. Destiny took away my mother from me, the only treasure of my life. Standing next to my mother’s cold body and crying, I became the most unlucky person in this world. At that time I was only seven years old and I did not understand what life was. When it seemed to me that everything in this world turned upside down, a decent lady, the representative of our district, brought me to my uncle’s home.

As days passed by, I went to school, lived at my uncle’s home and helped the family in their house work. My uncle is a person with a bad character, who had a stroke. Sometimes he yelled at me, beat me and chased me away from his home, maybe because he had 5 children and lived a poor life. Although I endured all he put me through and lived there for a while, when he said I killed my mother while shouting one day, I lost all my faith in life. That day when I thought it is better if I died and cried holding my mother’s picture seems like yesterday now. But now I am already sixteen.

I am in the Program for Children under Custodianship of World Vision International in Mongolia. I am a sophomore at the School of Professional Education of University of Culture and Arts, Mongolia majoring in Tourism and Japanese translation. I live in the Fifth Center for Children under Custodianship with my 17 peers in my teachers’ love and care inspiring for the future with my dreams.

I want to become a journalist so that I can write about life and share people’s happiness and suffering at least a little bit. Even though the hardship of my life was too much for me, it has become a bitter history making me stronger. I know that if my mother was alive, like all other mothers she would have wanted me to become a kind, educated, honest and the best daughter in the world. So I believe that my mother sees that I have been doing my best to be a good girl in every step of the way.

I am a happy person because I am living this life as continuation of my mother.

My life is my happiness…

Written by Aigul Bikon - January 17, 2009