Surprises
By Diane Marie Monton
I’m a transferee here in Martinez
University (MU) were it is one of the best university in the whole country. Most
of the students here are known in their own field. There are also daughters and
sons of businessmen, celebrities, politicians and other prominent people. And
if you’ll ask me how was my first day? I wanted to say it was awesome but it
was really not. Well you see I’m just a commoner and very far from my
schoolmates. I just admitted here because I was able to passed the examination
for full scholarship so what do you expect. But everything in that day is just
a full of first impression. As time goes by I met people whom I adore so much.
In my section, my three classmates
and I are top rated bullied victims in MU. They’re Lisa, Brian and Bricks. We
are different from my “sosyalera” classmates in terms of personality and
appearances. Let’s start with Lisa. She was called us pig because of her body
structure. She’s fat yet a very good cook. She’s not a commoner like me. As a
matter of fact they own an exclusive restaurant located near the university.
She’s the clown of the group and she always makes sure that her friends will
wear those smiles always. Yes, she really loves to see her beloved ones
smiling. She always cheers us up whenever we feel down on ourselves because of
the discrimination of the people. Though she’s experiencing the same she just
ignores it. One line from her that I would never forget is that “No matter how
they define you the most important thing is you don’t show that you’re
affected.”
Moreover, a man wearing eye glasses
and always have books in his bag pack is my friend Brian. Yes his nerd as how
they call him. He is a genius one as if whatever problems that our math teacher
will give he was able to solve it. He is also good in science and other
academic subjects. He came from a family of lawyers and doctors. He’s the one
who help us out in reviewing our notes and I could say his indeed a good tutor.
He is the eldest among his two siblings. Despite that convenient life he has he
still choose to work and live independently. If you thought he just want to
prove that he can well I’ll tell you you’re wrong. He’s working because his
helping street children. That’s one thing that others don’t know, the other one
is that Brian is a heartthrob type of guy. Behind those glasses a young looking
man with a good heart is the one who will easily capture the heart of the girls
out there. I asked him once why his wanted that nerdy look and I was surprise
of what he answered. He said “I don’t want to be liked by others just because
of my appearance and be popular.” I asked him again with curiosity if why he
don’t like to be popular for I’m sure he’ll have lots of friends. Then he said
looking straight in my eyes, “I don’t need one million or more friends I just
need true friend.”
Lastly, one of the talented people
I knew is Bricks. He is a gay and was rejected by his family because of it.
He’s working hard in order to live. He do lot of jobs like for instance beautician,
impersonator, dancer and painter. He is talented but no one knows about that
except us his friends. He was teased as a stickman. Yes he fight with our other
classmates because he has a perception that if believes that he done nothing
wrong he’ll never allowed people to discriminate him and his friends. He was
sent to guidance office for several times but still standing. He always says to
us to never quite. He always enlightens us and we are thankful to him.
People judge us according to what
they see and what they’ve heard. Then they will gossip it to others and people
would believe the same thing. What if it’s not true? Then you were able to
lessen the self-esteem of that person. What will you do? After knowing these
amazing people I came to realize that we fail to see what real beauty is.
Having that positive outlook, ability to lengthen your patience and when things
goes to much fight for it, be a good friend, helpful, wanted a simple yet
wonderful life and serves as a gift by the others is what is really
outstanding. It is beauty.
