Outstanding Stories » Loving Grandfather

“Loving Grandfather” is one of the outstanding stories (sub-junior) of the second biannual International Short Story Contest 2018 written by Kritika Jha, Shree Vallabh Sanskar Dham, India.

Loving Grandfather

Many years ago, there was a small village. In that village, there lived a middle class family named Patel family. This was a small family of four members, Mr. and Mrs. Patel and their two children named Bhavi and Rohit. As they were not so rich, the father thought to go to the other city for the future of his children. And they have shifted to the city. Grandfather of Bhavi and Rohit had gone to stay with their other relatives for some days. So they both were missing him a lot.

After some days, their grandfather came to meet them. When he came there, he was so happy with them. He made many friends in the new city and goes to a park every evening. He always tells moral stories to his grandchildren. They started living so happily in their new house.

After a few days, grandfather fell down from the stairs and sprained his arms. Dr. Gupta told him to take complete rest for some days. So in some days grandfather started feeling bored and changed his regular habits. He became so quiet. He did not tell any stories to his grand children from that day. He kept on sleeping the whole day. He was very sad and day by day his health also became bad.

Bhavi and Rohit made a plan and took their grandfather outside in the garden for a walk. There, he met his all the friends again after many days. Grandpa also did some exercise with them and felt too much fresh. After many days, children also saw him happy. All his friends were also very happy as they met him after so many days, and were missing him also.

Grandpa thanked to the children. Bhavi and Rohit hugged grandfather and said, ”We love your grandpa.”

Moral: Our elders also need our love and care.