Cho Ha Eun, Year 11,
Taylor’s International School
A New Life
As usual, I opened my eyes as soon as the sun hit my
windows. Every morning, I headed to school even though it was literally hell to
me. The kids from our class always treated me like I was dirt just because I
was fat, ugly and poor. Unfortunately, the world judges people based on their
looks and status. Many people think that if someone was different from them,
something is wrong with that person. I wanted to escape from this world. That
had been my lifelong wish. Every night, I prayed to God that my life would
change and I would stop suffering from this terrible school life.
Today, my eyes became black. I could see with only one of
them. I felt sad not because of the pain but due to frustration that I couldn’t
even protect myself. If our family had enough money, I could have learned some
martial arts. I was lying in bed wihing to escape this world. I couldn’t sleep
thinking about my mother. She worked hard for me but she earned only five dollars
a day collecting trash. I wanted to blame her for this life. If I were rich, I
wouldn’t get beaten up by the other kids. Today, everyone in class laughed at
me again. Even my teachers were laughing at me. I hated myself. I was
embarrassed of myself. I didn’t deserve to live in this world but I had no
choice. I needed to survive in this dirty world. I wished a miracle would
happen one day.
One morning, I felt like my body was very light. Was it
because I cried a lot the night before or lost weight because I didn’t have
dinner? I walked into the bathroom to get ready for school. When I looked in
the mirror, I saw a man standing there looking back at me. He was very tall and
had a perfect face. I thought I was dreaming. I pinched my cheeks to wake
myself up but this man was moving in the exact same way that I was. It was
senseless and impossible. When I went back to my room, I saw my old body
sleeping on the bed. When I woke him up, my new body fell asleep. Had my wish
come true? I went to school with my new body. It was like transferring to a new
school, although nothing had changed. The only thing that had changed was me.
The girls kept asking me questions. They asked me for my number and to go out
with them for dinner.
However, there was one problem. The punks in school felt
jealous of me and they were trying to beat me up. It was really scary. But
since I was used to getting beaten up, I could see their hand coming to me and
easily avoided it. I could fight them because I was taller than them. School
life became a happy one and I even made a new friend who was very kind to me. I
still used my old body to work out and lost weight. As I had two bodies, I
could use my new body during the day and my old one during the night. I had a
part time job in the night to help me earn some money.
After a year, I succeeded in losing a lot of weight on my
old body. It was hard but I did it. When my old body got really fit, my new
body disappeared. This was a real miracle. I was really grateful to heaven. I
didn’t have any idea how it happened but it was a real miracle. Within a year,
I saved enough money for university. I no longer had to depend on my mother. I
was really happy. From that day, I promised myself I would work out regularly
and work hard to make my mother happy for the rest of her life.
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