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Judging The Book By the Cover?

People Can Be Harsh, Can’t They?

Elisabete Gonçalves da Silva
ILLUMINATION
Published in
3 min readJun 4, 2022

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amazing smiling couple — author #elisabetegoncalves
Image contributed by the author | photographer Elisabete Gonçalves da Silva

Young people can be really nasty, I remember thinking about my peers at school as if we were thrown into the middle of a jungle and it was all about the survival of the stronger ones!

Even when we do not mean to be, even if you are a very sweet young girl who always cares about other person’s feelings, there are those moments when you are a bit biased or you judge someone by their looks…

At school, there was a boy whose gaze frequently crossed mine.

We were in different classes and different years but we crossed paths often.

We both went to the same school, so I thought it might be a coincidence.

That’s what I thought until I started meeting him everywhere:

  • in the corridor where I had classes,
  • in the bar,
  • in front of the school, where I used to spend my breaks, etc.

First, he smiled at me as I passed by, later, he started winking at me.

A few days went by and he started saying hello. Further along, we started talking.

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