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A Gift Or A Curse- Original Writing Have you ever felt like someone or something is trying to shield you from happiness? A kind of conspiracy holding you back. Or maybe God has either forgotten you or is punishing you for something but you don’t know what? When your parents split up and you have to be moved about from house to house all over the country, is God there? Sometimes I think that every problem is a gift to strengthen you, make you stronger. But sometimes too many gifts can suffocate you and you begin to crack. Only now have I taken into account what is happening, realising what reality is. I hate reality. When I was younger, I always dreamt of what it would be like to be older, wondered what life was like. I spent so much time dreaming of the future, I forgot the present. Now my dreams are filled with the past and how everything was so much easier. I try to make the most of the here and now, but the only result is tears. School again. I dread going to school, no one to talk to. My class is full of people who haven’t a clue of what reality is like. I see them laughing and joking without a care in the world and I envy them. No one knows who I am. They all look at me and think Oh it’s Jane, Janey the geek in the corner. But that’s not me though. I want to have fun, be wild, how I used to be. I am in my science lesson and yet again I am alone. I stare at the teacher without listening, it’s all just a blur, I feel rage, for no reason, what is happening to me? I hate that teacher, she has no idea of what I’m going through, talking to me like a normal kid. Well I’m not normal. I hate everyone in the Goddamn class. My hands are clenching into fists under the table. I dig my nails into my arms to

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