A girl alone in the silence of her room.

"Knock knock."

"..."

"Knock knock."

"Come on in, I know it's you mom."

"If you knew, you could have told me right away daughter."

"I wanted to be alone."

"I see."

"Did you want to ask me something?"

"Yes, how are you?"

"I'm fine mom, I'm not sick."

"Yet you act like you are."

"Eh, I'd like to see you."

"You'd like to see me? In a situation like yours? Hard to say, you have to go through such things to know."

"You said it right, you have to go through it."

"However, I don't think what you're doing is the right thing to do."

"Eh, sure it's my face that's like that anyway."

"Spare me the sarcasm, please."

"But what do you want from me!?"

"I want you to smile."

"Those days are over..."

"No, they're not over, it's just you thinking that."

"Not just me apparently, especially when you go out and see that the whole world seems to be against you, just because you have a different face than everyone else!"

"Diversity is scary, it's common knowledge. So what? You give up living your life just because four idiots think or say bad things about you?"

"Words make everything easy."

"Do you think if you had a nice, clean face like the movie stars you would have an easier life?"

"I sure wouldn't feel that way."

"You're a fool. True, maybe you wouldn't feel that way, but who's to say you wouldn't feel worse? Even beauty can be a sentence, surrounded only by useless promises and falsehoods."

"Not always."

"People by and large aren't that different from sheep, they just follow the most accommodating truth."

"That's why I prefer to be alone."

"And you're wrong, not so much because you want to be alone, that happens to everyone a little bit, and it's right to stop and think. It's wrong why you're doing it."

"But what do you know about that! What do you know about people's looks? What do you know about what they say to you? What do you know about the expressions on their faces when they look at me!? As if all of this reflects who I am! I'M NOT JUST THAT!"

"If you're not, then why do you act like you are?"

"Because I'm tired mom!"

"Rest then, but then start again."

"You make it easy."

"No, I don't make it easy."

"You're not the one to hear such things even from members of our family."

"I've told you before, that people are like sheep. It doesn't depend on what's good or what's bad, but which truth is more accommodating."

"..."

"A woman may be the most beautiful in the world, but the years flow by for everyone, and that much-hyped beauty is replaced by others, like mere water flowing under bridges. But those who are assholes by nature and carry only slander and malice, remain there until the day they die."

"That may be so, but it's the present we're talking about now."

"Your present, depends solely on you. The world does not change when we change. The world changes when we acknowledge who we are and accept ourselves. Only then, does it give birth to something unique that you don't see every day."

"What?" 

"The true beauty of being human."

"Yours is just useless philosophy..." 

"Philosophy is all around us and has more substance than you think." 

"..."

"Whether you are beautiful or ugly, there will always be people who will want to be around you, or who will want to push you away. But that's just the way the world works, you don't have to let that affect you."

"So it seems..."

"As for the family, those who don't understand what you're really like are only to be pitied, I feel sad for them. They have no idea who you really are and they may never know, their loss."

"..."

"By the way, I would like to remind you that today is the date of death of the one who was reputed to be "different" par excellence. He was killed by his own people even. What better example to follow than him."

"..."

"..."

"I love you mom..."

"Me too my little one. Even if we fight or don't understand each other, I'll always be with you, always."

"Yes I know."

"Come, let's get some fresh air."

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