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Adventure Coming of Age Friendship

You are always proud of your simplicity.

You were born in a simple family. Your mother was a military technician, and your father was an Army officer. You have an older brother, an older sister, and a younger brother. The family share all their love with each other and hold on to each other in the years of turmoil and unstable. Ever since you were born, you were told that you are the cutest in the family, combining all the good attributes from your parents and your family. You always consider your cuteness is a blessing from God and you never brag about this and consider this very natural and normal. Growing up in a farm, you gradually developed some characteristics that merit all the good virtues. From your parents, you learned about compassion, leadership, and courage when they decided to move to Canada and never go back to England to start a new life. From your childhood playing in the farm, you learn about the beauty of nature, science and physics, and the wonderments of curiosity. You managed to keep your heart and mind young and juvenile, as your physical body is growing to a mature and handsome level. After your high school, you left your University and joined the Army, where you then became an Army leader in which position you learned about empathy and courage are the most important virtue to be a leader. Whenever you talked about your experience in the Army, you never say much about it but just described it like, “I did nothing much but just laughed a lot.” Your humility, courage, integrity, and compassion just made you so cute and adorable.

You have never thought that your cuteness is saving many lives on the planet. When we first met, I was in a misery that being lost like a stray cat on the street, feeling abandon and disappointed by the beliefs that I used to hold on to. “I was punished by God for telling too many lies,” I often convinced myself about this. I was at the bottom of the valley and had no way to stand back up myself. I felt abandoned somehow and I felt that my future was a blank piece of paper. I was scared to draw and create for my future like I used to do. Until the moment you came to me and tell me that, having a plain piece of paper is the most wonderful thing that could happen, because on a piece of paper, no one can judge you in anyway and I can do whatever I want and dream whatever I want. The future is whatever I want it to be.

I was so glad that I met. Normally, I didn’t usually listen to people with big sayings, but your handsomeness, cuteness and kindness just lured me into your trap deeper and deeper. I started talking to you with all my concerns and difficulties I didn’t have the wisdom to figure the solutions, I started to observe how you delt with problems with moral aspects and how you treated others and things in a mature way. Gradually, I was transformed into a person with responsibility about myself and others. “The best way to live a life, it is to take responsibilities”, you often say. Your language is often very easy to understand and digest. As you said, you acquired this simplifying skill from the Army where you realized that not every soldier had the opportunity to be educated well. You had to figure out a way for them to understand your orders and commands quickly and clearly. Your sense of responsibility made to study psychology in order to herd your soldiers. “I had to make sure none of my soldiers was put in a position that could risk their lives”, you say. At this moment, you are the coolest, the cutest soldier among all. “I am just a simple soldier,” you often say, whenever I was trying to praise you about your glories and triumphs that you made over the life of your career. These virtues are so powerful and they are life-saving when they were placed in the battlefield. I was impressed that you could always use these virtues so well and they benefited so many people.

Out of spontaneous impulses, you are also a volunteer in city’s Human Society to save stray dogs and cats. Your love for the nature and wildlife no one could ever exist. In my eyes, you are just being spontaneous in saving lives. You often do toy drive for dogs and manage the donation events for these poor little guys, and you felt so honored to be part of this society. You are always an unsung Hero who sacrifice himself for something beautiful in the world, and that’s love and beauty in humanities.

Your kindness and benevolence made me stand back up to my feet, after being defeated upon my ego and ignorance about the world. I didn’t respect humanity well by being so willful and eventually got punished by God. But you, my Angel, you came into my life just like a Savior, enlightening my poor and thirsty soul, for me to understand the preciousness of human life and the beauty of goodness and dreams. You endowed my life with hopes and dreams and gave me the purpose of pursuing happiness.

You are always a Hero of my life. I almost gave up learning and acquiring new things after my depression, now I not only never see the world of black and white again, but also I see the beauty of colors and rainbows, the true joy of happiness and the significance of a life. I started to care about others and show empathy toward other like treating myself well. And you know, all I am doing, it is because I have seen you as the most beautiful Angel, always gives me enormous energy to laugh, to smile, and to be optimistic. I love you, my Angel.

August 07, 2021 21:16

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