BE TOLERANT WITH YOURSELF "Caroline! Wake up !!" said my mother. “ Now I will get up by myself. “ I hate her, every time she has to wake me up screaming. I pay attention to dress well by matching my clothes. I do my make-up properly, but I have to be careful because I have to cover my dar patches on my face. “Caroline! Do you want me to make you something to eat before you go?“ “ Nope !!! I prefer to eat out. I will not waste my time with you” I take my backpack, my dear headphones and I leave. “ Bye Caroline! Have a nice day! " “ yes, yes... bye” While I am leaving home and carefully looking for a song to listen to, the screaming voice of a man, gets my attention. He is beating his son: “You could be more careful. Every day it's the same thing. Pay attention when you eat! Now you'll go to school dirty, your classmates will laugh at you and you will be humiliated. At least you will learn how to behave the next time. I work both day and night just to buy you everything but you never have anything. Now shut up and walk!!! “ I see how the child feels humiliated and guilty. He gets his head down and says nothing. While I'm walking next to him, that stupid child looks at me and it seems as if he is asking me for help. “ Don't look at me! This is what you deserve, bat! “ I put my favorite song and I walk to school; what a horrible and useless place! Not a long time passes before I bang into a darned Moroccan. “ Go to work foreigner instead of selling umbrellas!” It's a wrong day today. Even in the bus there are so many people, but the worst comes after some bus stops when a nigger gets on the bus near me. “ There is no place here. Get out and walk!” But he just keeps coming closer and anyway he stays on the bus. “ Do not touch me! You are for sure sick. I do not want to get anything” How disgusting could these niggers be . They do not wash themselves. They also steal our job. They have to return to their place of origin. As soon as I arrive to school I meet my headmaster. “ Good morning Caroline. Could you gently help professor Saltzman to bring some dictionaries from the library near the school? It's urgent ! “ “Good morning! Hmm... excuse me, but I am in a hurry.” “ I knew you would not refuse to help us. The professor is waiting for you.” “ But... “ “ Bye Caroline” That professor hates me, he almost scares me but how can I say no to him. He deceive me! He brings me in a filthy place and violently throws me in without saying a word. He goes away and he left me there mercilessly. “ Please! Help me!
There are all black people in this place. That is disgusting! They force me to work. The niggers around me. They look at me like I were an alien. I have not done anything wrong. I just have a different skin colour. “ Please! Let me go!” “ Idiot children” “ Pease, stop hurting me!” Really. I do not undersand what is the problem with me. I AM LIKE THEM. ...wait a second, what did I say? … I am like them... “ Caroline! Wake up! “ “ Oh mom. I love you.” It is the first time I hug her, but I would not get away from her. “ Sorry mom, I have to run. It is late.“ “ Caroline! You forgot to makeup. You can see your facial imperfections. " Who cares! I am still me ! “ ( Our world is based on stereotypes and prejudices. We must tolerate all this. But perhaps, first of all , we must be tolerant with ourselves. Every person is special in her/his own way. We must accept who we are. And only when we feel fine with ourselves we could have a better relationship with others.) PERJU NICOLETA ( IV AL)