Star Diary

DIETING WRONG

Last week in our chemistry class, suddenly one of my friends fainted and hit her head on a desk. As we ushered her to our teachers' common room, our teachers immediately helped her with some first aid. Later, as our homeroom teacher talked to her parents, she got to know that it happened due to her eating disorder, while my friend thinks it's a mix up between heat exhaustion and lack of breakfast that morning. After a few days, she returned to our class with her nose fractured and a scar on her forehead. Her mother accompanied her and thanked our teacher for calling her immediately and said she would push her to have proper amount of food for every meal. Our chemistry teacher called my friend, and told her that diet control is not about forgetting all the food that she loves, rather it is about finding an eating lifestyle that she can follow all her life. It is important to find the balance between being healthy and keeping our energy level intact while not sacrificing our food entirely. It was not a lesson only for her, also for many other people who think eating less causes fat loss.
Meherin Islam
Zindabazar, Sylhet

A SMALL HELPING HAND

It was a day like any other when I was getting back home with my son from his school. Our rickshawpuller was a middle aged man, who was evidently having a hard time pulling his rickshaw in such a hot weather. On our way home, I decided to pause to pick up some of my groceries from a nearby shop and asked the puller to wait for a while.  I finished my shopping and placed everything on the counter, when suddenly my son added a cold juice to our items. As soon as we returned to our rickshaw, he took the bottle out of the packet and offered the juice to the rickshaw puller with a smile on his face. Seeing the man happy and grateful, suddenly I felt like cheering inside just from having witnessed such a simple act of kindness. My 5-year-old son set an example for me to see the generosity of everyday people everywhere. It might be a very little act, but I believe even such a small act can bring about major changes around us.   
Srishti Sultana
Dhanmondi, Dhaka