Amira of Bosnia and Herzegovina — The Girl Who Notices What's Missing
Amira of Bosnia and Herzegovina — The Girl Who Notices What's Missing
Amira of Bosnia and Herzegovina — The Girl Who Notices What's Missing
Age: 14
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Amira is the person you want around when you've lost something.
A mitten.
A library book.
Your favorite bracelet.
The permission slip you were absolutely certain you put in your backpack.
Amira will tilt her head, think for a moment, and ask:
“Where did you have it last?”
Adults ask this question all the time.
The difference is that Amira actually helps you look.
She notices things.
The blue door that used to be red.
The elderly neighbor who hasn't opened her curtains yet.
A bird's nest tucked beneath the roof of a building everyone else has walked past a hundred times.
The little path beside the river that wasn't there last spring.
And people.
Especially people.
If someone at school is unusually quiet, Amira notices.
If a friend says she's fine but doesn't quite sound fine, Amira notices that too.
She doesn't make a fuss about it.
She'll simply sit beside her.
Sometimes she'll offer half her sandwich.
Sometimes she'll start talking about something ridiculous until the smile finally appears.
Amira believes paying attention is a kind of caring.
Her grandmother says she has always been this way.
When Amira was six, she once interrupted dinner to announce that the moon looked lonely.
Her older cousin still brings this up.
Amira maintains that the moon did look lonely and everyone else simply lacked observational skills.
She carries a small notebook in the basket she takes everywhere. Inside are sketches, leaves, interesting words, questions, and little things she doesn't want to forget.
A funny sign.
A beautiful window.
Something her grandmother said.
The exact shade of the sky just before it rains.
Someday, Amira wants to become an architect.
Not because she dreams of building the tallest building in the world.
She wants to design places people love being in.
Libraries with windows made for daydreaming.
Homes where every room feels welcoming.
Schools with gardens.
Courtyards where neighbors sit together long after dinner is over.
Places where someone thought about the people who would eventually walk through the door.
Because Amira has already figured out something important:
What makes a place beautiful isn't always what you put into it.
Sometimes...
it's noticing what was missing.
Her dream: To become an architect and create places that make people feel they belong.
Her wonder: “What could the world become if we paid a little more attention?”
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