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Ghalib: A Short Story

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The genie didn’t start like everyone knows him, he wasn’t powerful or even delighted in the beginning. Throughout his life, he had to agonize and put up with many events. But you could say those events made him who he is.

At the beginning, he was an average person called Ghalib, who didn’t enjoy an ecstatic life. Living in the streets, he had managed to survive over time by doing small tasks and in extreme cases, by stealing. On occasion, he was able to burglarize some books from travellers from far away. This way, he was able to pick up by his own.

Because of his nonexistent wealth, he couldn’t afford education, instead, he taught himself with books he found lying around and with the 3 different styles of learning. Visually, all his time …show more content…

Only this time, the sand started quivering, and Ghalib heard a deep sound as he checked out the figure of a tiger started ascending from the sand. The giant tiger-like figure opened its mouth and gobble up Ghalib. As he was ebbing in a cimmerian pit, he lost consciousness.

After a few minutes, Ghalib became conscious again and started to dig into where he was, it seemed he was in an underground cavern inside of the tiger structure. Venturing inside every little hole he could find, he descried one that was glistening with a bright yellow color, inside of it laid the magic lamp the guard had notified him about. He would finally be able to accomplish his wish. However, as he approached the lamp, a big voice trembled in the room and the lamp started to slip away from Ghalib’s reach.

Prove your worthiness, the deep voice said, tell me your biggest dream and the justification for …show more content…

By moving around and watching everyone do their jobs carefully, he achieved a teaching with everything that he experienced and by questioning it later

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