when you grow into a tree

Maureen 2022-03-23 09:02:54

Speak.

Speak, why don't you speak, I'm sick of seeing your closed mouth!

I have said this to myself many times in my heart. Fortunately, these words have appeared less and less frequently in my mind over the years. I consider this to be growth, and I don't know if it's appropriate or not.

I don't envy those who are eloquent and eloquent, but I really envy those who can say whatever they want. In certain situations, in front of special people, I can do the same. But most of the time, I'm considered a deep person.

Some people don't like deep people. this is nothing. But what if those people are the ones you care about? Is it someone you need to please and get their approval from?

So I have been thinking, why many times I do not want to say, too lazy to say. Swallow even if the words come to your mouth?

Watching this film today, started thinking about a possibility. After that misfortune, Melinda was mistaken for a betrayal. Friends stopped paying attention to her, and people at school laughed at her. She herself has changed from a happy and innocent girl to a depressed and silent person. Because of a misunderstanding, a victim becomes an initiator. She is far more empowered than me, someone who is just preoccupied with trivial matters, and more necessary to speak and tell the truth. However, after losing the initial opportunity, why was she silent for the next year?

Is it a lack of courage? Feeling unnecessary, feeling small, feeling that if you tell the truth, you will seem like you will become dirty? People's sympathy often overflows at the beginning of the tragedy. When it is concealed for a certain period of time, it will be difficult to open it again. The special thing about this movie is that there was no helper, and no major incident happened. Of course, you can also talk about these small things that happened around Melinda, such as the encouragement of the art teacher, the persecution of the social teacher, the encouragement of the classmates who did the experiment together. Persuasion is the incentive for Melinda to finally untie her knot and tell the truth. But you have to deny that most of the problems were created by Melinda herself and redeemed herself. She lay in the hospital bed thinking, "It happened, there is no way to
avoid it, no forgetting." Simple truth, but only when you think about it will you know its correctness.

Growth is a person's business. I don't know when, you will gradually learn to face those fears, those inevitable, That's okay. Maybe when you feel mature, or at least more mature than you were in the past. After you feel you're capable of dealing with this and solving it." here's what I learnt in biology, if the seed is planted too deep, it doesn't come up in time." Only when you are no longer a seed buried deep in the soil, when you break out of the soil and see the sun, will you grow rapidly.

Maybe everyone is waiting for that time Break through the ground. At a certain point, you start to have the courage to take the first step. Just like, many things you didn't want to say, you start to say. A lot of communication that you didn't want to have started.

There are many trees in the movie, Tall and dense. Melinda has painted a lot of trees. She also hopes to grow into such a straight, dense tree one day.

I also hope that one day, I can grow into a big tree. No more fear, no longer small, no more Feeling worthless again.


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Speak quotes

  • Mr. Freeman: Can anybody tell me what this is?

    [holds up a smashed globe]

    Ivy: A globe?

    Mr. Freeman: A globe? Gosh... what are you guys, 13, 14? You already let them beat the creativity outta you? It's okay. I used to let my daughters kick this around my studio when it was too wet too play outside and one day, Jenny put her foot right through Texas and the entire United States crumbled into the sea. I mean, you could... you could paint a wet muzzled dog chewing Alaska! The possibilities are endless. It's almost too much, but you all are important enough to give it too.

  • Mr. Freeman: In here is a piece of paper and on that piece of paper is a word. You are gonna spend the rest of the year turning that object into art.

    Ivy: Uh, Mr. Freeman? When I was little, I was really scared of clowns and I don't wanna relapse and have to go back into therapy.

    Mr. Freeman: Oh, yeah, well, fear is a great place to begin art.

    [Melinda picks a piece of paper that says "tree" and tries to put it back]

    Mr. Freeman: Hey! Whoa. You just chose your destiny. You can't change that.

    Melinda Sordino: I learned how to draw a tree in like the 2nd grade.

    Mr. Freeman: Oh, really? Um. Well, do you wanna show me? It's okay. I won't grade you.

    [he hands her the chalk and Melinda sulks up to the blackboard and very hesitantly draws a really pathetic tree]

    Mr. Freeman: That's a pretty good start. Yeah, let's see what it looks like at the end of the year.

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