SAME UNIFORMS, DIFFERENT TRACKS

A student of YYHS, I feel greatly honoured to be in the great school.

At the very beginning of the school year, when I got my own school uniforms, I found that they were almost identical to those worn by students in DJK No 2 High school, except for the badges. And DJK No 2 High school is located right in my hometown Mt Wudang.

One weekend I took a coach home. After I got off at the bus terminal, I headed back to my neighbourhood. It was around 8 pm, the street packed with shoppers and tourists. Wearing the winter uniform, I found myself right behind six students from that school. Their school uniforms looked the same. All of a sudden, a boy picked up a girl and the girl screamed. At the time many people in the street turned their eyes to them, but the boys and girls did not give a damn. Their frolicking continued along the way. I could not stand it so I tore myself away from them.

When I got home, I could not stop thinking about those six contemporaries of mine. How foolish they were! It was beyond me why they did not want to study. Instead, they played, smoked and even fought every day. I couldn’t imagine how their parents would have felt if they had witnessed their behaviour. Exactly most of them were my ex-classmates in middle school. I am so sad to see them drifting away in such a direction.

I do not want to think any more about them. That would be cruel. Luckily, I am in a good and beautiful school now. Maybe I should make a clean break with them.

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