Autobiography of my Teddy!

So friends,

I am here again. As, I was telling you yesterday, our English teacher gave us some topics for creative writing. It was to write an autobiography of either a Teddy Bear or a Football. All the boys, obviously, selected football. And we girls wrote about Teddy Bears. It was really easy for me, as I not only had a teddy bear, but also used to play with it as if it was alive and talking. But later on, I expanded the article and you can read it now. So here it is..

Autobiography of a Teddy Bear

I’m a native of China. A kind Man there had collected lots of fiber and bear skin. He had lovingly stitched it in shape of a bear and stuffed it with fiber. Thus, I was born. He also fixed a big smile on my face and it got stuck there. In short, he created me – a handsome fellow with an evil glint in his eyes.

Then I flew over the land and the ocean to Kenya. There, I was bought by a man or stranger as I call him along with my three cousin brothers. He stuffed me and my brothers in a big suitcase where I could not even do my business! Oooh! I got so angry. I didn’t know what was happening in the world outside my dark old suitcase.

I felt like I was going up n’ down n’ up n’ down… and later I heard a roaring sound. I was up in a plane! When the plane landed our suitcase was picked up and dropped on a roller belt. This wasn’t too bumpy. Now I knew we had reached our destination.

From there the stranger picked us up and placed us in a car. There I knew that we were going somewhere. But I didn’t know where we were going. We reached the house where we were to get down. When we got inside the stranger and his family went to get fresh. Then they unpacked us. Phew!! What a relief it was to come out of the cramped suitcase. The place we had come to was Cochin.

Then I was given to a little girl. The stranger was the girl’s uncle. It was July the twentieth which was proclaimed as my birthday. The girl shyly held me by the ear and I felt insulted. Then she took me to show her mother. Later I found out that the li’l girl’s name was Rupashri and she lives at a place a bit further away from here. She thinks she is my master… but honestly she is MY slave! Even though I call her my pet. She has got a big brother. He thinks he is big and some times he takes advantage of me.

I know that you may think I am very small ’cause I was packed in a suitcase. But oh no! I’m not that small as you think. I’m three whole feet tall and almost as fat as a refrigerator! Just kidding! Even though not so fat, I’m still on a fiber diet . They don’t even lemme cut a cake on my B’day!

Often, when she goes to her uncle’s place, she takes me along too. I happily go there because her cousin’s bear, Ballu, is my cousin. But the main reason is that I can rule over him too saying “Bow to his majesty”! Oh! I forgot to tell you that one day while going there in a car, brother took my hand and waved it out at somebody thinking that the man would not see us. But to his astonishment the man saw us and waved back! It was such fun. Heh Heh!

My pet brother and sister do not know that I am older than them. And they try to boss over me. Humph…. Err…um… But you can say that I’m the one who rules over them like Hitler all the time. But yes, in the night she gets scared and pulls me under her blanket. But actually I’m the one who is really scared and creeps in between my pet sister’s blanket and she takes such care of me that I some times wonder what I’d do without her.

As I am getting old, I am beginning to get skin diseases. That’s when my skin tears and my fur comes out. They point it out to their mother. Their mother takes a needle and some thread which matches my colour and OOOOOH! Should I say more? After the surgery they pamper me a lot.

But what can I do without them? Where can a plump little teddy bear be- A teddy bear with two personalities; at times a ruler like Hitler, but normally acting like a brainless fellow if not with them?

Three years have passed since I, the one who made a huge change in this family was born. Let me wish myself a long life and rule over them of course! LONG LIVE TEDDY!

If you have enjoyed reading, kindly post your comments, as they would really encourage me. For more articles, watch out tomorrow.

Bye,

Rupashri