"Stop calling me 'Ackley kid,' God damn it. I'm old enough to be your lousy father."
"No, you're not." Boy, he could really be aggravating sometimes. He never missed a chance to let you know you were sixteen and he was eighteen.
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The writing competition business not only made things weird with Ah Sze, but also drew Hung Yi’s own emotions into question. These were more difficult questions outside the framework of the essay. Questions that Hung Yi didn’t have standard answers for. Sinking into someone else’s sorrow was so easy—should she guard her own heart? If she did all this as part of her schoolwork, were these feelings even real?
After school she told Mom about it, only to become more upset when Mom tried to comfort her by suggesting that she should be happy with being “good enough.” “Don’t be so hard on yourself,” Mom said. Everyone was missing the point. This feeling of being misunderstood sent young Hung Yi into an unknown sadness. Revisiting the memory of that day, Hung Yi mused that the teacher’s warning against pessimism and Mom’s advice on flexibility had likely backfired. She grew to defend her points of view even more.
If someone keeps succeeding, they naturally become complacent and start slacking off. Just like in ‘The Tortoise and the Hare’; the hare kept coming in first, so it underestimated its opponent and lost to the tortoise. On the other hand, failure makes people work harder.
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