The heroine Nadine has been very introverted since she was a child. It is not so much that her lack of friends makes her so introverted, it is that her introvertedness causes her to have no friends. What's even more frightening is that she has a brother like "other people's children" by her side, who is excellent and popular.
When little Nadine was sad, her father was always by her side, but after her father passed away unexpectedly, Nadine became more closed. She is very inferior, but she doesn't want to show it, so she can only use rebellion to disguise herself. She hated everything around her, felt full of boredom, and couldn't communicate normally with her classmates.
Fortunately, a girl named Krista approached her and became her only good friend for many years.
But later, Nadine found out that her good friend and her brother were actually boyfriend and girlfriend, and they were in a very serious relationship. At that moment, she felt that the whole world betrayed her, and there was no blessing for their love.
Krista takes Nadine to the prom because she wants to save her friendship, hoping she can make some friends, but unexpectedly she encounters a bigger setback. Sad Nadine didn't want to go home and went to the history teacher's house.
Nadine's mother and brother went to great lengths to find her and take her home, but she didn't appreciate it at all. Instead, she felt that her brother pretended to care about her because he wanted to show off in front of his mother. The elder brother also expressed his anguish in angrily. He has been taking care of his sensitive mother and the family with all his heart, trying his best to make up for the vacancy of his father, and he will not go to a better university because it is too far from home, and there is no way to do it well. take care of their mother and daughter.
Hearing these words, Nadine blamed herself very much, began to think about what she had done, and began to truly welcome her life, trying to integrate into the family and society.
Nadine has low self-esteem and she is conceited, like most of us at 17. People she likes don't like her, but at the same time she's dismissive of her suitors. She always likes to chat with the history teacher, but in fact she looks down on the teacher, thinking that he can't make money teaching history, and the family must be unhappy.
But in fact, this is not the case. In the eyes of outsiders, Nadine is very happy. She has a very loyal and understanding good friend, a sensible brother who can take care of others, her mother is also very tolerant to her, and an excellent The tall, rich and handsome suitors of his, and the history teacher who is looked down upon by Nadine actually has a high salary and a very happy family. The only person who couldn't see clearly was actually Nadine herself.
When we are young, we always feel that our pain is unique, we love music and movies that are very old, very old or very small, we feel that we are mature people with an old soul hidden in our hearts, and we are conceited. At the same time, we are sensitive to certain eyes, certain characters, some numbers, some trademarks, hate comparisons, hate "other people's children", and we feel inferior.
Behind the resistance of youth is a cover for inferiority, but it is also full of youthful passion and expectations for the future. This kind of resistance often comes easily, because for young us, the future is still far away, and most of the time the future It's just an imagination, and the most eager heart is not lacking in imagination.
This is not to say that the imagination of youth is equivalent to fantasy, it may just be that sometimes what we want to break may not be as bad as we imagined. Indeed, it should be admitted that life is far from being as enthusiastic as it might be ideal, but it is also less indifferent. The young heart is eager for direction, and it is easy to lose direction. We constantly compare with certain goals to stimulate ourselves. When the situation is suitable, we will laugh, and when the situation is not, we will fall back into low self-esteem. But sometimes it is forgotten that life is always our own and that we can never be happy by looking at others.
"We exist in the universe at this very moment." The universe is so vast and contains tens of billions of years of history, but what matters to most people is the light they feel at this moment. It's like life has a hundred ways and possibilities, but what really matters to us is the one we live in this moment. Thousands of pictures of life are like the colorful stars in the universe. In the end, it is just a picture. It exists not to tell us how small a person is, but to let us find out after watching different lives. truly own life.
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