At the pool party, Timothy fell into the water and couldn't call for help. The girl he cared about the most dived into the bottom of the pool. She lifted Timothy's socks and saw lovely green leaves, but was kicked all over his face by the fearful Timothy. Blood.
These innate differences are carefully protected from birth, hidden silently, and accidentally discovered, as if naked in front of others, only innocently waiting for cruel harm, so we run and hide, or try to Injure the other person before you get hurt.
Dad told him, "If someone finds your leaves, run, run away from that person, and run hard." Timothy ran desperately through the woods, trying to get rid of this strange girl who knew her secret, but the girl chased after him. When she got on him, she tore off her collar, pointed to a large rose-colored birthmark, and told him stubbornly and tenderly: You are not the only one who is different.
Everyone has and everyone has encountered such leaves: yellow curly hair, black moles that can't be covered, fingers that can't be straightened, extra meat balls on the earlobe, tongue that stutters when you're nervous, or It's the strange but vibrant green leaves that grow on the legs. But not everyone is lucky enough to meet such a beautiful and kind girl.
In high school, there was a boy in the next class. He was tall and fair, with big clear eyes and hard brown hair. He looked like a paper man from a comic book. He looked different from others. Of course, the most different thing about him is his voice, which is flat and rough, like Donald Duck and like a robot, and he speaks very slowly, so slow that he can't keep up with the speed of other people's chatting and laughing. .
The boy fell in love with a girl who wasn't pretty, not that great, with braces, pimples all over her face, in a school that was nationally famous, and she was just plain ordinary. The first time they met, he said to her: "You are special". All she remembered was the slow, flat, rough voice of the robot. She doesn't care about him at all, hurts him carelessly, teases him inexplicably, and even puts on a gesture that I'll never like you in front of everyone. Maybe, she actually liked him from the beginning, but she didn't understand why she did this, maybe his voice was too slow and strange. Yes, because everyone said he spoke too slowly and sounded bad.
On the first Valentine's Day, after watching "Subway" together, he wrote a sentence in his notebook: "Unrequited love is really thought-provoking." At the age of
seventeen, she didn't understand that love doesn't care about braces, pimples, or other people's hearing . What to say, I don't know why I should hide my grievances silently after listening to the other party's talk, I don't understand why even if the quarrel is so bad, I am willing to run over to hug him and not let him go. Ten years later, she said to him in a dream, "You are also special, your voice is even more special, very cool. I'm sorry, I was so bad back then, I wasn't good enough for you." When I woke up, I found that I said something I'm sorry, but it took ten years of courage.
Love, be loved, humor, honesty, courage. Timothy's leaves are falling irreversibly.
One day, when we use the different parts of ourselves to exchange for these beautiful qualities, then it will be different and no longer different. One day, when we learn to use nature, ordinaryness and tolerance, to look at our most despised past and the most special difference from others, our hearts will be calm and joyful.
The leaves fall, but not sad. If I have my own Timothy in the future, I think I will say to him: "People don't like things that make difference, but only real angel would love that special you."
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