The Painful Truth.

Ali works in the same bank where I am the manager. He is a very dutiful and intelligent young man but he always remains very serious and quiet in the company of his cheerful fellows. He talks very little. I always wanted to know what had made him so unhappy at such a young age. One day when he came to my office for some work, I said to him in a friendly voice. "Ali, …

…that he had secured admission in a university in the States and would be leaving shortly. His friends might still remember him and consider him to be a lucky person who is receiving higher education abroad, but if anyone happens to come to a branch of certain bank in a nearby town, he will meet an accounts clerk who closely resembles one of their friends who is being educated in a university in the US.