By:Gaurav

POSITIVE ATTITUDE

Let us read Rashid’s Diary about his positive attitude

Dairy pages - 1 and 2 ( August 26th and 27th )
The story is about a boy named Rashid who has been selected for the field events for sports
day. If Rashid does all the events well then he might get a chance to go in the inter-school
competitions so he had decided to go on jogging with his father every morning to make up his
stamina. The next day he was completely exhausted just because of the 45 minutes jogging,
his dad was always in front of him tho he was going at a slow speed but, after they reached
home after jogging in the garden with its great beauty, ‘Ma’ had given them some cold lime
juice that drinking it was pure bliss. But only when he had the rush of going to school. When
he reached school he realised there were some muscles bitterly about having had to work
overtime ! Tomorrow in addition to the morning jog there’ll be the practice sessions during
games period in which Sharma sir will be timing them.
Diary pages - 3 and 4 ( September 8th and 19th )

One day on september 8th rashid could finally keep pace with his dad, replaced grunts with actual words.
True it wasn’t the best of conversations. But he has a suspicion that they are still jogging at less than his
father’s normal speed but he did enjoy the jogging. He felt like his legs had a
Life of their own and knew what they had to do. The lime juice was still bliss ! he didn't gulp
It down in fact he sipped it and read the comic strp in the newspaper. But at the same time
he thought that ma had smiled ! Even Sharma sir was pleased about the time he clocked at
the 100m dash. Sharma sir said that rashid had to seriously prepare for the inter-school rashid
meet !!! On 19th september Sharma Sir came to rashid’s house to talk about a special
Coaching camp at school to prepare for the inter-school meet. The conversation went
Something like this.
Sharma Sir : Rashid shows promise ! He has the making of a top runner ! ( I smirk with
Pleasure ! )but he needs to compete with the others of the same age group. That way he’ll
be motivated and taught how to keep his thoughts positive to go the extra length to win.
I’d like him to join the camp, but only if you give permission,and can drop him at school by
6 am.
Dad : No problem ! 6 am is fine ! we have been jogging at 5 am for the last three weeks
Sharma Sir : That explains the improvement in his speed and stamina. Any questions ? Then see you at
the camp 6am on monday Rashid
Diary pages - 5 and 6(October 1 and 8 )
Today was the day when rashid found out the inter-school meet is on 8th and he got his
sport kit like tee shirt and white shorts with school colours on it. Then he heard that the
chief guest was Milkha Singh India star athlete in running and he had won the gold
for india at commonwealth games and in the asian games in 1960 and 1964 olympics
and for this Rashid wanted to win the medal for himself . On the day of sports meet
Rashid wrote the diary in the morning because when the race was about to begin. In the
night he wrote that he assembled at nehru station at 9 am and the hundred metre race
was a hell of a nervousness for him but when the race was beginning Rashid took a
deep breath and there he goes ( GUYS CHEER UP FOR RASHID) But at the moment he
realized that he had finished the whole race already , later he was awarded the gold
medal by Milkha Singh .later the participants went to have tea and chit chat with him.
First all of them were nervous but then relaxed by some of Milkha Singh’s jokes