Nobody loves a weakling and it certainly wouldn't pay to be one. Imagine being referred to as the weak link time and time again, it surely would hurt your feelings like it's doing now. You really dont have to be a bully, all you just need to do is toughen up and you'll be fine.
I've had to toughen up all my life, you know do things that'll put some respect on my name. There was this time I didn't go a day without doing push-ups, actually did make me feel really strong. I did 50-100 push ups everyday and I was sure at the end of the third month my body would have grown some fine muscles.
But when I looked in the mirror in the third month, I couldn't believe my mirror had now become an x-ray machine because all I saw was my skeleton starring back at me. It really did hurt my feelings but I knew there was something i wasn't doing right.
I sat and thought for a while, what actually made guys really look so scary and fearsome? I know muscles do and surely scars too. Scary is synonymous with scars, you just have to stop asking too many questions and they're both the same thing. Then I thought to myself again, how can I get scars?
The best way to get em is to be involved in a pretty good fight or a pretty dangerous one, one with bottles flying, knives digging and cutlasses running. Those were the best ways and my pretty face had non of that at the moment, no wonder I still looked so weak.
I remember one morning, when I woke up and decided to get some boiled egg, I like to eat em in the morning before anything else and no, I don't swallow them if that's what you're thinking. So I got out of the house and hit the street on my way I saw a black man approaching (when I say black man, he was black even for a black man), I didn't seem to pay him any attention until I got really close.
I couldn't bare to look directly at him because I could notice the scars that ran through his face. There was a big one dividing his right eye and another one dividing his cheek and there were more and more tiny ones all over his face and it was really horrific, like I could feel the air leave me. I didn't know what had just happened but damn, that was something I couldn't let something this horrible slip away.
After catching my breath, I ran after this new god and when I got in close range with him, I straightened, held my jaw up high, and chested out, then I tapped him on the shoulder, very slightly. He stopped and in what looked like forever, turned to face me with the darkest of expressions I'd ever seen. Boy, he did beat my wildest imagination. With a face like that, no street gangster could stop me and ask to check the time on my phone (I know you don't get this but when they see your phone, it becomes theirs).
I just starred at him with so much wonder, trembling from head to toe. Then he opened his mouth to ask me, "can I help you?", In a chipmunk voice. I immediately felt the air that had left me come back to me. I couldn't believe my ears, I just looked at him wondering who's CGI movie I was in now. He looked at me again puzzled and started to say something else but I muttered the words, "How did you get this scars?, They're beautiful".
This is a weird thing to say to a black man and I'm sure it certainly hurt his feelings because he just turned and started to walk away. I chased after him again determined to get my pound of flesh, this opportunity wasn't going to pass me by. Immediately he turned, I punched him directly in the nose with as much strength as I could muster. I heard a loud scream and blood started to gush out from his nostrils, he charged at me and I blacked out.
I woke up next to find myself in the hospital with a broken nose and a swollen eye. The pain was unbearable, it felt like the devil had stepped on me with all his might, and I could still smell the sole of his feet, it smelled like a little baby's ass and it reeked of desperation. Long story short, my nose didn't remain the same again, one nostril was permanently closed, so breathing came directly from my mouth and with the one working nostril.
Well I didn't care, atleast I had gotten what I wanted, a big scar and a scary look, no one was going to mess with me this time. True, no one actually did, for two months no one actually spoke to me, anytime I entered a room, people ran helter skelter for cover leaving me all by myself. So this was actually how gods felt, that power, that aura that leaves people trembling for fear, I surely could have done this a lot sooner, maybe I wouldn't have lost any of my phones to it's real owners.
You should see my nose, it was crooked and it certainly could make a baby cry. Feeling at the top of the world one night after coming back from a football game, I just strolled down the street with a big smile on my face with no care in the world when a guy walks up to me and looks directly in my eyes. He wasn't any bit scary and he certainly didn't look like he could hurt a fly.
Then he asks me what the time was. I looked at him, then I smiled, making my face look like something from a zombie movie. Then I brought out my phone, checked the time and told him. He still stood in front of me without actually blinking, then he asks me to hand over my phone to him. Was this dude obviously seriously? Was he really going to mess with someone as scary as me?
I put my phone in my pocket without saying a word and then walked passed him singing the song that was in my head without so much as a worry in the world. I had made it some few steps away from him when something hard struck my neck, before I could recover, more and more slaps started to hit me, every one as painful as the last. I didn't know when my two legs started to sprint, but I ran, ran as hard as I could for my dear life, I ran without looking back.
When I got home, I'd lost my breath and for someone who had only one nostril left I had to open my mouth wide to help stabilize my breathing. I was dumbstruck, what the hell just happened? Didn't he see how horrible my fave looked? Wasn't he the least bit scared?
I'd lost everything, my pretty handsome face, my phone and every dignity I had left.
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