Flipped

by Wendelin Van Draanen

I see the day that my view of things around me started changing.

“One’s character is set at an early age, son. The choices you make now will affect you for the rest of your life.”

“Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss….” He turned to me. “But every once in a while you find someone who’s iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.”

people need things around them that lift them above their lives and make them feel the miracle of living.

the sad fact is, most people don’t look beneath the surface until it’s too late.”

Maybe it was all how you looked at it. Maybe there were things I saw as ugly that other people thought were beautiful.