<p class="ql-block">Since my childhood, I’ve been easily intimidated. I was so timid and weak that almost everything could be too overwhelming for me. Life was like a maze and I was lost in it. Till that day I pulled out the sword of power in the stone.</p><p class="ql-block">A young coward as I was, I was frequently bullied. They always twisted my arms as if they were some kind of rubber. I was never able to fight back when they undermined me. I was underestimated, not by everyone, but by myself.</p><p class="ql-block">When I was in junior high, I saw a movie called Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Ferris took a day off school, went to various places, learning what he couldn’t learn at school. Obviously, Ferris had a light life as he broke the rules a lot. In contrast, his friend Cameron had a heavy life, tamed and obedient. I worshiped Ferris because I wanted to be bold and brave, like him.</p><p class="ql-block">The next day, one boy hit me with his leg and I scolded him, fighting back with my bare hands. Don’t blame me because it was the best thing a girl could do to defend herself. My tears ricocheted as our teacher came, I asked for a day off school to fix my broken heart. Then I went to the lake, throwing all my books into into it as I drowned the old weak me. With my new lightened life, I went to the art museum. I immused myself in it without saying a word but it felt like I screamed the whole world out of me.</p><p class="ql-block">They always say that it’s the lightness of life that we can not take. For me, I couldn’t take the heavy life any more. I wanted to be bold and reckless, free from the rules and the bullying. So I did, leaving the heavy life behind and never turning back.</p>