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School itself wasn't my enemy. The enemy
was in the crowds of kids who didn't care about me, the teachers with too many
students to pay attention to me, and the students who left me to play alone on
the playground. I was alone.
At the end of this year in a health class,
we played a game where we taped pieces of paper onto our backs and ran around
the room, writing something nice about each person in the class on the paper. When
we were done, I looked at what people had said about me: "Smart" and "Nice".
From then on, when I met people who would pass me by, I would often want to
tell them how nice I am.
My dad once told me, "What other
people do or say about you tells you more about them than yourself." I
would repeat that to my friends who came to me for comfort. I hoped it
comforted them the way it did with me.
The more I thought about my dad's words, the
more I realized what he meant. The kids at school might call me ugly. They
might ignore me, but their words and actions didn't make me into someone
I was not. Instead of feeling sorry for myself or being angry at them, I could
choose to forgive (原谅) them. I knew that
being unkind was their way of making themselves feel better. I knew that they
wounded me as a result of their own pain. Even though loving my enemy was hard,
it was the right thing to do.