Literature
Self Portrait
A soul enters the world, happy, excited, fresh!
It longs to mingle with other souls, and to learn.
The soul smiles when it meets others for the first time, so willing to open up and share with them all it knows, and learn what they know!
But the first soul it meets knocks it to the ground.
The next one questions its motives.
Another ignores it and lets it hurt where it lies, bruised, and not understanding what is happening.
The soul continues like this, ever open, ever fresh, but everywhere it goes it receives the same treatment.
It is mocked for its curiosity and excitement, and it is ignored because it is not like the others somehow.
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