Flaw

I found this scribble that I wrote four years ago in my seventh grade Language Arts writing journal. Based on what is written here, I gather that my teacher asked us to write about a flaw that we have the others seem to focus all of their attention on and I wrote about how annoying it was for people to ask why I have gray hair on the back of my head (yes, I really do). I had completely forgotten how annoying and irritating it was hearing those questions until I read this recently (and this was written long before I actually started caring and liking writing!) and now I remember how I used to feel getting asked questions about it repeatedly. Enjoy!

There is a kid at school who has two small patches of gray-colored hair. All of the kids won't stop asking, "Is that really gray hair?" The poor kid gets really annoyed at that question. He also gets annoyed is someone asks, "Do you know that you have some gray hair on the back of you head?" The questions just keep coming down as if it is snow falling during a blizzard. On his outside appearance, he looks calm and normal looking when he's asked those questions. However, on his inside appearance, someone would see something quite different. As they looked at his brain and asked those questions continuously, a small flame of anger would rise and never stop. If nobody says anything about the gray hair, he will be happy when he goes home. On the other hand, if anybody did say something about the hair, that anger flame in his brain would be out of control when he arrived at home. He is tired of being called an "old man." He does believe that gray hair is a sign of a very wise human being, as his bus driver has said the same thing for she has had gray hair since age eighteen. He has had his two small spots of gray hair since the age of six. He wishes people would pay more attention to his natural hair color of brown instead of all attention to the small amount of gray hair on the back of his head.