Likeness

Quote is really true.

        "Not everyone is put here on this earth to like you". That was the quote my mother said to my sisters and I all the time or " You weren't put on this earth for everyone to like you". I don't really remember how it went,but I remember her saying that often. The reason why she said that almost everyday was because I came home every other day complaining about kids not liking me at school. As a kid I couldn't find a reason for anyone not to like me. I mean come on, I thought I was awesome, but apparently to some of the other kids I wasn't and the thought of people not liking me kind of hurt. To think that people didn't like me for no reasons at all was very fustrating and I couldn't come up with any reason for that happening. One day this girl tranfered to my school she had blonde hair,blues eyes and was pretty tall for a seven or eight year old  (I think I was in the second or third grade) and everyone went to gather around her to meet her and tried to become her friend, I'm all up for making the new person "feel" welcomed, but it isn't a competition. Over the years I've noticed this, when a new person moves to a school everyone is competing between each other to see who cam become their new best friend first. I wasn't among the cluster of children surrounding her like vultures surrounding a dead corpse, but I was still close enough to listen in on the conversation.

      It was recess time and I had to stay back to talk to the teacher about something that I don't remember, I finished my talk and rushed to the door that led outside,but I was stopped by a body and that body really hurt when I recovered from the hard impact I realized I bumped into Skylar the new girl. I quickly apologized for running into her and ran outside before recess was over. There were so many games going on the playground: jump rope, football, four square and kickball I decided to play kick ball,because I was awesome at it and it was my favorite game at the time. It was my turn to kick and I was getting ready to kick the ball when I saw Skylar wonder out to the middle of the outfield and line up with me. 'You are so strange' I thought to myself. Less then a second later I kicked the ball It went in the middle of the air and ground it was between the two, to low to be  going super fast, everyone tried to stop it, but couldn't except for Skylar. She stopped it with her hand, but didn't really catch it. The ball fell to the ground and rolled away from her. At that time I was running and slowly stopped to see what was happening when I looked for her she was gone I started to look around, but I didn't see her or the ball all I saw were people's eyes looking at me. 'What?' I thought to myself then I heard footsteps from behind me I turned around and saw Skylar running at me with the stupid kick ball, I turned around and started running for the base that would keep me safe,but before I was on the base I felt something hit the back of my neck.

True story

"What the heck?" I said turning around to face Skylar. "That hurt". Skylar bend down to grab the ball and held it out in front of her.
"The ball made contact with you, you're out." She simply said then turn towards home base.
"No i'm not you're not suppose to throw it you're suppose to tag people with it". I yelled after her. She turned around and towered over me.
"I'm sorry that I threw the ball at you, but your still out". She again turned around,but before she was out of ear distance she yelled over her shoulder. "That's a real apology".

'WHAT!?!' I thought in confusion

             After that things were weird between Skylar and I had no idea why. When I was reading "Magic Tree-House" (the book they used to ease us into reading chapter books), and I felt her looking at me, and I knew she was. I wasn't paranoid, because people can tell when other people are looking at them and I could feel her eyes on me and it creeped me out. Everyday this happen and everyday I would try to do something that would keep me away from her eyes. For two weeks the weirdness or whatever it was continued and I would do everything to avoid her eyes on me, that was working until we had to pair up with a partner for a project and it so happened that my normal partner was"sick" that day. I was use to working by myself,but we had to have a partner and there wasn't anyone left so I decided to work alone, a few minutes later the teacher came around and had to go and say. 

"Starr do you have a partner?" 

"No." I said back. She looked around the room to see if anyone else was alone.

"Skylar, do you have a partner". Why wouldn't she have a partner just a couple of months ago everyone wanted to be around her.

 Needless to say, we ended up paired together which was a waste of time, because we didn't talk or do anything partnerie. After we were done with the group assignment we sat there in silence for what seemed like hours until I spoke and said something to her.

"So... Where are you from"? I asked trying to break the ice. She didn't answer she actually didn't do anything, but continued to look forward and I have this thing with eye contact, if your not looking at me that means your not listening or paying attention, I know it's weird, but it's so true.

                    So I stopped talking to her and just like that I returned to my desk determine never to have a conversation with her ever again. After school I went home to tell my mother about Skylar and what I did and then I ended up getting in trouble.

"Just because someone has done something to you doesn't mean you have to do it back". I remember her saying that to me just before I was forced to right 100 rules of do unto others as they do onto you or something like that (my memory sucks). The next day I went straight up to her and asked her why she didn't like me.
"I never said I don't like you, but your weird and I don't like weird people". she said to me. Whoever said that words don't hurt is the biggest poopie head liar, you can recover after you broke bones or was cut,but when something verbally hurts you sometimes its harder. You guys are probably thinking being called weird shouldn't hurt anyone, but do realize I was like eight and back then being weird was what you didn't want to be. After that day I just stayed away from her, only talking to her if I had to. The thing is you can stay away from kids who don't like you, but when you have a teacher who doesn't like you that's a different story. I'm not even making  that up I was in a grade (not giving it away) when I had this teacher who appeared to hate me, every time I rose my hand she wouldn't come over, her eyes would darken when I was around her and I made the mistake of telling my mother that and at that time we we're forced to have parent teacher conferences and she told that teacher what I said to her. The rest of the year was torture.
           I really think after that I stopped trying to please people and stopped caring what they thought. You are awesome and there are bunches of people who will like you, whether you are loud, quiet, nice, mean, rude (not many people would like you if you are) or polite there are people out there who want to be around you and people who won't at all, but who cares it's there loss right?