Nimisha Shrestha
Two friends who had a great relationship soon fell out of touch when one of them fell gravely ill. The yuan Xiao festival (lantern fes- tival) was arriving soon. The two of them had promised to watch the lanterns they would launch together. Since one of them was ill, the other thought that they wouldn’t be able to go to the festival as they had promised.
The festival was approaching and the friend who was ill hadn’t gotten any better. The other friend started to lose hope. A few days had passed and the festival was approaching with only a day left. The ill friend was still in a bad condition due to her sickness. The day that the festival had to be celebrated had arrived and the ‘ill friend’ was nowhere to be seen.
The lone friend wandered through the festival all alone un- til the time to launch the lanterns arrived. Just as the friend was about to launch her lantern, someone tapped her shoulder. The friend turned around in shock to see their ‘ill friend’ standing before them. The ‘ill friend’ then asked her friend, “Did you forget about the promise we made?”. They laughed it off and launched the lanterns and watched them float towards the sky as they had promised.
