
Who am I? How should I know.
I am a normal living being on the planet earth.
We all have a purpose, and so do I,
So journey through this poem, and find out who I am.
We all have our fears, we all have our dreams,
but I may have a few more.
I don’t like to lose,
but I encourage others that are better than me
to keep it up.
I get teased by people
just because I am very short.
Its fine.
When someone teases me about my height,
I think about my story
about a pencil who was very small
but came into lots of use.
“Aapka aakar mahathvapurna nahi hai,
apka kam mahathvapurna hai.
Your height/size doesn’t matter,
your work is what matters. ”
This is my favorite line in the story.
It tells me that I can achieve goals in life
no matter how I look
No matter my size.
You can only achieve goals
if you are YOU.
You can only achieve goals
if you work HARD.
YOU decide who YOU are.
YOU decide what work YOU do.

Prithvir Gadekar is a 10-year-old from India. Prithvir enjoys cricket, tennis, video games, and reading.
Amy Liu is from Dallas, Texas. Amy started drawing at a young age, and art quickly became her favorite creative outlet. Other than painting, she loves reading poetry and prose, playing and listening to music, and eating.
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