Healthy children

 Healthy children

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When I was a child, my parents told me that as soon as you had two eyes and two ears, you were loved. That is why we always went to the park, to play with friends, to watch cartoons, and to play games. I have never known how much fun it is to see other people's faces laughing, or being happy, and I didn’t understand why, but it was very wonderful. The only thing I remember about what happened to me when I became older was that there was no love in it, only happiness, love and a desire to be happy.

2

When I saw my first friend at school, he was wearing red shorts and his hair did not stay straight. He was my little brother and I thought that we would like each other. Then I saw him in another place, but this time around it was different. There was nobody to love me at all. We are both black boys and he was our best friend. As time passed by, we became close friends because of each other. When he moved away, however, we got lost. From then on, he only told us about himself and his family. My mother only told us about herself and her life. They knew each other from birth until death and nothing else. It never occurred to me at all that she might have lived any other life outside of their home. Our relationship lasted four years before we really started thinking about it. For me, my sister was everything that could happen to me but I was her everything that would happen to me. When she left school to go to work she came back crying and saying that ‘she was like my mom and I was like my sister and now everything changed’. This made me very sad. She said that she felt very lonely because sometimes no one saw her. In my mind, she lost everyone except for me. And here I am, so far away from her, but only because that time had passed. When I spoke to her about his leaving, she told me that they never planned to split up because both of them were white girls. To add to that, we are both blonde girls so that makes us a mixed-race family. So although neither of us had a good childhood, we both enjoyed life. Sometimes we thought our lives would be ruined. In fact, even though we don't really like ourselves, we like looking at ourselves. Just like we do for everybody else. I used to think that if someone laughed at our skin color then it was as if they disliked it. But when someone looked at me, they were laughing because they liked me. I think that everyone needs somebody to love when they’re going through something. Maybe they’re just having an emotional bad day, or they feel lonely and the love will make everything better for everybody.

3

The worst part for me because I don’t have anyone is that I have my first girlfriend, but my second girlfriend is a boy. Her name is Katerina and she doesn’t like me very much. When he comes over we start arguing a lot. When it goes that well, I can say that nobody is perfect, but I’m glad that Katerina has seen me as I can have an argument with my own daughter. Because maybe I wouldn’t have been able to tell my daughter that I wasn’t allowed to touch her and talk to her in class, but also because of this quarrel I guess she can decide now that she will accept me too. If I had been with my girlfriend from birth or had grown up with three different types of girlfriends then I probably would not be happy anymore.

4

I don’t know where the third girl came from but her name is Alexia and she likes being with me too. So I think that we just live together as the same person but we are totally different people. Nowadays I try to keep everybody happy and talk to them regularly. I think that everyone has their own ways of doing things. Even if they’ve a bad childhood, they still have some sense of right and wrong. We should respect each others’ feelings. No matter if they are our moms, our dads, sisters or brothers. We should be in peace with ourselves and with the world around us. We are adults and we need to be strong people with good morals. We shouldn’t give advice or advice when we’re not sure how to help a person. We should listen to our parents and then have them be kind and decent adults when they are not around their kids. Also I think this world needs more kindness so everybody gets what they deserve. Nobody should feel ashamed because their parents can’t love them as much as they can love themselves. Everyone should be nice because everybody is nice. People who are mean should stop hurting people like me. I am sorry, but I am hurt by my parents' words because I wasn't as loving as they were to me or as kind as they were to each other.