Chingu

Humans

 Personally, I'm ashamed to show you the world. How people treat others, how fake can people be. The Earth isn't sick only because of polluting objects, is because people are contaminated too.

 And think that children have to see it makes me feel bad. Know that I'm contaminated too makes me want to die. But I don't deserve to die, no with what I did. I thought that I knew everything, but really I didn't know nothing. Two people made me know that I was wrong.

 One of them was a little south korean child, Kang Ji-woon. He was only 10 years old, but he was wiser than me. He lived in a small department in the city of Busan. He lived with his parents. However, they didn't pay him a lot of attention. His dad was working a lot and his mum did care more about her friends. But, of course Ji-wooni loved them because they were a family, and his parents loved him too but in their own way. His partners at school were so bad. They bullied him because he couldn't read and write. The teachers made him have embarrassing moments. They weren't patient with him. They thought that he acted like he couldn't read to ruin the class.

 Kang Ji-woon's mom spend so much hours teaching him how to read. But, didn't matter how many times he tried, he couldn't learn to read. However, his passion was drawing. He made a lot of artistic works. He had a lot of imagination. His bedroom was full of drawings,  little sculptures and mockups of castles and houses with people. He was awesome but no one saw that. He was also too excited when his dad came back home. He hugged him like a little bear.

 But his father didn't understand him too. Because when Ji-wooni showed his bad marks to them, they were so angry with him. His father shouted him a lot.  Even one night, that his dad was drunk, Ji-wooni heard him asking why he didn't have a normal son, a good son. That night he cried and cried, but then he acted like nothing happened.

(This is a picture of Kang Ji-woon feeling bad)

 One afternoon, Ji-woon's mum order him to stay in his bedroom because she had to talk with her friends. So, he stayed in his bedroom drawing and painting. He was doing a drawing for his mum. He chose the most beautiful colors and was thinking in how happy his mum would be when she saw the painting. Mother's friends arrived and sat down in the livingroom. They talked about their children. They said how fantastic and talented were their sons and daughters except of Ji-woon's mother. She was embarrassed, her cheeks turned red and she was a little bit angry. The other women also criticized her son but she didn't know what to say. She let them say bad things of Ji-wooni. However, she didn't know that he was seeing and listening all, because he went out of his room to give the drawing to his mother. When the women left the house, Kang Ji-woon wanted to give the drawing to his mom but he saw that she was crying. She asked him why he can't be like the other children, why he wasn't talented, why she can't be proud of the things that he did, how is it possible that she had a son like him. He, with a strong hurt in his heart, dropped the drawing and ran out of the house. 

(Here you have Kang Ji-woon's draw)

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 Well, I've just told you a piece of Kang Ji-woon's story. So, now let's talk about the other person that that changed completely my mind...

 I'm going to talk about who most called "a monster". He was two meters and half tall, his skin was a kind of green or yellow, his hair was dark and his eyes at night were brighter than a light. The people were afraid of him because he was different from others.

 He couldn't let others see him so, he watched them from the shadows. He learnt a lot about people. The only thing that he had never learnt is how to talk with them, because he'd never done that. However. He was very smart. He read about 2000 books of history, physics, maths, literature, philosophy, and more; so, he knew very well how to read and write. He lived in a cave in Geneva, Switzerland.

 He was watching the people in a town when he saw a small family playing in their house. He was seeing them through a window. They were a father and three little boys. He saw their love and he wanted to be part of that family. He helped them giving them fruit and fish that he caught. He also heard that the mother of the boys died some years ago in an accident so, he wrote notes supporting them and expressing his love for them. But one evening, that the boys were playing out of the house, he decided to talk with them in person. The reaction of the children was bad, they started crying and screaming, they called him "monster". The father of them went out of the house and hit him with a stick. He ran into a forest and never came back to that house. He was so sad.

 He wanted to try in another place, another town. This time he saw something weird: in a house there was a man lying on the floor. He went into the house because he thought that the man could be ill. But...when he got in, he saw that...the man was dead. There was a lot of blood around the body. He looked around and there was another man but this one was alive and had a knife on his hand. This man was scared. Then, the man dropped the knife and got out of the house shouting that a monster killed his dad. Everybody in the town saw a monster next to a dead body. Anyone cared if that monster wasn't the killer, they won't believe that he was innocent. They all hurt him with rocks and sticks. So, "the monster" had to escape from there. he was very hurt. 

(This is a picture of "the monster" crying)

 He passed through a lot of situations like that. Didn't matter how hard he tried, people just were afraid of him and hurt him also. He was tired of that, tired of suffer. So, he thought that maybe if he moved to another country things would be better. He didn't bring with him many things because he had nothing, only books but he had already read them. His travel lasted a long long time. He was travelling by boat and alone. He has to stopped so many times because he had to eat. So, he spent so much time going to his destiny, South Korea. He decided to go to the city of Busan. When he arrived he found a little abandoned house so, he spent the night there, until the sunrise... 

(The route From Switzerland to South Korea)