Grade 11, Rena le Lona Creative Centre
Once upon a time, there was a family called the Horribergs who lived on top of a mountain that was called Mischief. Mischief Mountain wasn’t a mountain where you could go for a walk or a hike or look at to admire. The mountain was so hazardous that it was declared a no-man zone. The Horribergs were a family of six; the mother was expecting the seventh member in a few months’ time. There was Mom, Dad, two boys and two girls who were quadruplets. The Horriberg family had lived there for almost 500 years, from generation to generation. They had their own way of living. They lived there because they didn’t want to be bothered by society and they were cold-hearted people.
After a few months, the seventh member of the family was born. The strangest thing was that the seventh member of the Horriberg family didn’t even cry when she first saw light. She just smiled and opened her eyes very wide. Her name was Brenda Horriberg. At that moment, her mom, dad and the doctors knew that something was different with Brenda because usually every child cries immediately after birth, but Brenda’s condition was astounding, even to her brothers and sisters.
A few years later, Brenda’s siblings introduced her to their way of living. As she grew up, she couldn’t adapt to the Horribergs’ culture because of how she felt emotionally and physically. Brenda’s siblings taught her to be strong, fearless, cruel, corrupt and independent, but that didn’t sit well with her. It was as if her spirit wasn’t the same as the rest of the Horriberg family. Her mother realised that Brenda was not accepting the culture they taught her. She started to think that maybe the doctors gave her the wrong child. Her mother then decided to put more pressure on Brenda to be like the rest of the family.
So Brenda’s family forced their culture onto her, but she couldn’t adapt to it. She thought her family would disown her; she felt unwanted and ran away, a heart-broken 16-year-old.
At first, she didn’t know what to do nor where to go because she had never left Mischief Mountain in her life. After a few hours, she went around exploring the city that was near Mischief Mountain. She saw how people did things to survive: some good things and some not good things. She even learned about abuse, violence and other negative things in the world. Surprisingly, she learned all those things in one day. All she wanted to do was to change the world, so she thought of many ways to make money to help unemployed, poverty-stricken and homeless people. She decided to build her own non-profit organisation which would be a problem-free place — a place of wonder, happiness and unconditional love.
Building her organisation was a long process. It took her almost two years and after that, she didn’t hesitate, she decided to go out and help the people around the city. She told them where her NPO was located. After a short period of time, people who had financial problems started to come to her NPO. It was a win-win for everyone because all she had ever wanted since she left Mischief Mountain, was to help people who were having serious problems. She invited them to live there and not think about any negative things anymore.
They did fun and calming exercises that helped them a lot. After some time, Brenda, along with her organisation, started to have financial problems because she had workers who needed to be paid and 250 people who needed to be taken care of. Luckily, many business people heard about what she was doing in the community, and they were all interested in helping her. They decided to sponsor her NPO with donations of money, food and clothing. She then decided to make her non-profit organisation global. She built a city that would accommodate everyone around the world who was not financially stable and who needed peace.
The name of the city was Paradise World. Since the city was built, everything that negatively affected the world started to change. The high rates of crime, rape, abuse, corruption, unemployment and poverty started to drop like rain. It seemed like both the city and the world were at peace.