Hera’s Point of View

Here’s everything I know about life: People are selfish. They think of themselves too much that they don’t remember the day you fart in a crowd. The most embarrassing moment you have – is surely nothing to them. Really, it’s just us making our lives miserable with our valued negative thoughts.
Not long have I learnt this fact. I started not to care since then. I can always choose how to react.

A month ago, my mother enrolled me in a boarding school. I ironically agreed as she declared living in a city to the “best experience.” It’s not that I’m ungrateful. I mean, it’s a city! Tall buildings, and more advanced technologies than in this provincial life. It’s just this whole boarding school is more about her than it is about me. I love the life I have here. I love the silence at night, and the birds that sing every morning.
My mother is a campus dean in one of the universities here in our province. It is in town. See, she doesn’t want me in her school. What an unconfident woman, sending her child to other...