Oh that Taylor kid makes me so mad! Sorry. I know I shouldn’t let people get to me like that, but he is such a… Okay, I got to calm down, or I won’t be able to do my blog. Maybe this is what I need to blog about. Yes, this is exactly what I need to blog about.
There’s this older boy at school who thinks he is smarter and cleverer than everyone else. He’s rude, arrogant, and treats us younger kids like we are just here for him to torment and ridicule. He never does anything physical to hurt anyone, but he loves putting us down. It’s like he’s trying to make himself look the big man in front of his friends by putting everyone else down. Today, Carter almost took a swing at him. Carter has a bit of a temper, and he is especially protective of me. Taylor made this snide remark about me and Carter. You see, Carter has blond hair, and I have red hair. At lunch today, Taylor and a couple of his buddies stopped at our table and he said, “I read somewhere that people with red hair have a lower IQ than blonds. Hey, Carter, is that why you hang around this ginger Kat? She makes you dumb blonds feel smarter?”
Carter jumped up and would have punched Taylor, except that Carter accidently knocked his lunch tray, and it splashed me and a couple other kids with mashed potatoes, beef gravy, tapioca pudding, and meatloaf. Along with a temper, Carter is a bit clumsy. Taylor said, “I rest my case.” He and his buddies walked away laughing their heads off.
When Carter and I were in Dearth, (the dark land that lies beyond a dead forest) we met someone that reminds me of Taylor. We were staying in this strange inn called People Rule Inn, and it was one creepy place. Once you entered, you couldn’t leave alive unless you solved the riddle of the inn. Since no one had ever solved the riddle, no one had ever left alive. The things that happened in the inn were so crazy that eventually people would just give up and leave. But the instant their foot hit the ground outside, they would disintegrate into a cloud of dust.
Sid was one of the people we met in the inn. He, like Taylor, was nasty, rude, arrogant, and enjoyed the suffering of others. Sid even declared to all of us staying in the inn that when he solved the riddle, he would not tell anyone. He would just go and leave us to suffer the inn until we couldn’t take it anymore. That’s the kind of person he was.
Needless to say, Carter and I discovered the answer to the riddle and escaped. (The story of our stay in the inn and how we escaped is very exciting. You can read about it in the book of our adventures “Beyond the Dead Forest.”) Before we left the inn, we told the residents, including Sid, the solution. But they didn’t believe us. Their pride would not let them believe that two kids could discover in one night what they and so many others couldn’t figure out. They also couldn’t accept the truth that the riddle taught. It’s a principle that leads not just to freedom from the inn, but freedom from so much of the suffering that goes on in our world as well as the world of Dearth.
I’m not going to reveal the secret because that would ruin the story. The point I’m trying to make here is that the reason we tried to help Sid get out of the inn, even though he wouldn’t do the same for us, is that no matter how nasty a person like Taylor or Sid is to us, if we treat them the way they treat us, then we become like them. We become prisoners to cruelty, selfishness, and pettiness. If we treat them the way we wish they would treat us, it might change them, but the person it changes most is us.
Thanks for listening. Talking about this made me remember who I am. I am not Taylor or Sid. I am who The Guardian wanted me to become. It’s okay if you share my posts with others that might like them. Night.
There’s this older boy at school who thinks he is smarter and cleverer than everyone else. He’s rude, arrogant, and treats us younger kids like we are just here for him to torment and ridicule. He never does anything physical to hurt anyone, but he loves putting us down. It’s like he’s trying to make himself look the big man in front of his friends by putting everyone else down. Today, Carter almost took a swing at him. Carter has a bit of a temper, and he is especially protective of me. Taylor made this snide remark about me and Carter. You see, Carter has blond hair, and I have red hair. At lunch today, Taylor and a couple of his buddies stopped at our table and he said, “I read somewhere that people with red hair have a lower IQ than blonds. Hey, Carter, is that why you hang around this ginger Kat? She makes you dumb blonds feel smarter?”
Carter jumped up and would have punched Taylor, except that Carter accidently knocked his lunch tray, and it splashed me and a couple other kids with mashed potatoes, beef gravy, tapioca pudding, and meatloaf. Along with a temper, Carter is a bit clumsy. Taylor said, “I rest my case.” He and his buddies walked away laughing their heads off.
When Carter and I were in Dearth, (the dark land that lies beyond a dead forest) we met someone that reminds me of Taylor. We were staying in this strange inn called People Rule Inn, and it was one creepy place. Once you entered, you couldn’t leave alive unless you solved the riddle of the inn. Since no one had ever solved the riddle, no one had ever left alive. The things that happened in the inn were so crazy that eventually people would just give up and leave. But the instant their foot hit the ground outside, they would disintegrate into a cloud of dust.
Sid was one of the people we met in the inn. He, like Taylor, was nasty, rude, arrogant, and enjoyed the suffering of others. Sid even declared to all of us staying in the inn that when he solved the riddle, he would not tell anyone. He would just go and leave us to suffer the inn until we couldn’t take it anymore. That’s the kind of person he was.
Needless to say, Carter and I discovered the answer to the riddle and escaped. (The story of our stay in the inn and how we escaped is very exciting. You can read about it in the book of our adventures “Beyond the Dead Forest.”) Before we left the inn, we told the residents, including Sid, the solution. But they didn’t believe us. Their pride would not let them believe that two kids could discover in one night what they and so many others couldn’t figure out. They also couldn’t accept the truth that the riddle taught. It’s a principle that leads not just to freedom from the inn, but freedom from so much of the suffering that goes on in our world as well as the world of Dearth.
I’m not going to reveal the secret because that would ruin the story. The point I’m trying to make here is that the reason we tried to help Sid get out of the inn, even though he wouldn’t do the same for us, is that no matter how nasty a person like Taylor or Sid is to us, if we treat them the way they treat us, then we become like them. We become prisoners to cruelty, selfishness, and pettiness. If we treat them the way we wish they would treat us, it might change them, but the person it changes most is us.
Thanks for listening. Talking about this made me remember who I am. I am not Taylor or Sid. I am who The Guardian wanted me to become. It’s okay if you share my posts with others that might like them. Night.
Steve when Carter and Kat return from their adventure would you mind letting them know that even if our kind actions don't seem to make a difference that we say we can still walk away with peace in our hearts not only because we did the right thing but because there may have been someone who noticed our example. All it can take is one person to do good that could cause a domino effect of people doing good for each other.
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