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Even if 99% of the people hate you

Even if 99% of the people hate you

By Puppydp Published 5 years ago 2 min read
Even if 99% of the people hate you
Photo by Sydney Sims on Unsplash

  Tracy is very unpopular. She had very few friends, in fact, almost no classmates at school wanted to play with Tracy. When eating in the school cafeteria, as soon as Tracy walked past with her plate, her classmates would immediately get up and take other seats.

  

  Tracy knows that she is not beautiful, and even a little ugly; moreover, she was born in the slums, the family is poor. These are probably the reasons why her classmates hate her. Of course, perhaps add her foul temper and mean personality.

  

  Tracy was well aware of these, but she never took it to heart. Until one time, Tracy ran for a charity club, and when asked for their opinion, Tracy actually received 99% of the votes against.

  

  This huge and visual number hit Tracy hard, and she couldn't face the fact that - she only knew that her classmates hated her, but never knew that so many people hated her.

  

  "I can't stay here anymore, I'm dropping out." A mortified Tracy motioned to Principal Goodyear.

  

  Principal Goodyear asked rhetorically, "Why?"

  

  "99% of the entire school hates me, isn't that reason enough?" Tracy turned red and her eyes were on the verge of tears, "I don't know what's the point of staying here, and I don't know how to face my classmates."

  

  "So what?" Principal Goodyear gently patted Tracy's shoulder and said with a faint smile, "99% of people hate you, but there are 1% of people who like you ...... at least not hate you. Not to mention that this is only in school, even if 99% of the world hates you, then there are still 75.27 million people like you. You know what? That's almost half of the Russian population!"

  

  Listening to Principal Guderian's words, Tracy suddenly felt less depressed. Only her face still wore confusion as she asked, "So, what should I do next?"

  

  "My child, that's what you should be thinking about." Principal Goodyear nodded and smiled, "The answer is really quite simple. You need to work on getting better, so that more and more people like you, and so that the people who used to hate you see how you've changed and improved."

  

  Tracy smiled back, knowing that even if 99% of people hated her, there were still 1% who liked her, or at least didn't hate her. Then, must not let the people who like her down again, first try to change the bad habits, make yourself better, so that more and more people like you. Tracy told herself in her mind.  

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