(285 words) Childhood is an amazing time, magical and happy. Every day is filled with meaning. Every dream is great. It does not occur to the child that life can be miserable. Every new morning a little man wakes up with a thirst for joy, a desire to know the unknown. Even if someone offended him, he quickly forgets about it.
In the story “Figures,” Ivan Bunin describes one day in the life of little Zhenya. The boy woke up with a thirst for knowledge. His new desire is to learn how to write numbers. Simple, unpretentious in the understanding of an adult, but for a child - a big dream that can open the whole world in front of him. Eugene refers to the only person who can fulfill it. But uncle, because of his unwillingness to do this right now, refuses him, having come up with an excuse. For an adult, time runs fast, and failure seems a trifle to him. However, for the child exists only today. Tomorrow is too far. In anticipation of the promised “tomorrow”, Zhenya finds no place for himself, is rampant, and by evening his impatience reaches a peak. And at that very moment, the usually calm uncle goes wild. One formidable word, one slap - and fragile children's joy shatters into fragments. The child cries, prays for help, and finally resigns himself to the pain inflicted on him. He decides that he will never love his uncle again. He seems ready to hate the whole world. But once you give your grandmother a hint that without uncle he won’t learn to write numbers, the child’s resentment immediately evaporates. The very next morning, Zhenya was again full of thirst for life, passionately loves her uncle, and with delight is immersed in the study of treasured figures.
You can see a parallel between Zhenya’s attitude towards uncle and our attitude towards life. The child, quickly forgetting the insult, opens his heart again with happiness. Adults, offended by life, are sometimes not ready to forgive it and fall in love again. We can learn from children the main thing - to live today, now, to be able to let go of the past and love life, no matter what.
