A frozen heart is thawing

  This is a child who has been hurt too many times, and generally wouldn't show her emotions, but I could feel the change in her heart. She remained silent for several minutes, her head getting lower and lower, and I knew the "opportune moment" had arrived, so I continued to say:

  "A teacher's remark 'A child without a mother is a child without manners' and you, in a fit of anger, helped that teacher out greatly, really becoming a 'child without manners'. What haven't you done? You say it yourself, do you have any manners?"

  "No! She said I'm uncultured, so I'm uncultured..."

  "Are you trying to pick a fight with your teacher?"

  "Right!"

  "Perhaps that teacher has long forgotten those words, but you paid the price of blood for them, almost ruining your life. If that teacher knew about it, she would still be proud of her foresight back then, because you proved her assertion with your actions. I just think, why can't you take a deep breath and show her your good breeding? She said you were ill-bred, but you are well-bred, and use your excellence in all aspects to give her the best retort. Think about the suffering, hardships, and bullying you endured when you 'gave up', if you want to learn well, it's probably much easier than that."

  "Of course, actually I'm not stupid at all. At the beginning, I studied pretty well. If I work hard, I don't dare to say a famous brand, but taking a bachelor's degree is no problem."

  "So you're a complete misplacement. It's like, there's someone who cursed at you in a hurry and said 'you're really stupid', and you actually cut off your own head in anger and threw it away, and from then on, you lived without a head, thinking 'since you say I'm stupid, I might as well live without a brain'. One day, the person who cursed at you asked you 'where's your head?' and you replied 'you said I was stupid, so I threw it away'. That person burst out laughing 'haha, there's no one in this world as foolish as you, if someone says your arms and legs are stupid, would you cut them off too? Now you're really stupid...' By the time you realized your mistake, your head was already gone."

  She couldn't help but laugh out loud, tears of joy streaming down her face.

  "Too lively, too lively."

  But then she looked worried again:

  "Teacher Si, you said I'm really brainless, why didn't I think of these things at first?"

  "You'll regret this!"

  "What's the use of regret? Everything is too late now."

  "If I don't make it, then there's no need for me to waste my time on you. The only difference is that your head is still attached to your neck, it's just that its sense of direction has gone awry and needs readjusting..."

  I suddenly asked her again:

  "Do you know who you are?"

  She stared at me with an inexplicable expression:

  "Who am I?"

  "Yes, you don't know yourself at all, and have always looked down on yourself. In fact, there are many advantages in you that other children do not have..."

  "Do I have advantages too?"

  "Look! You're denying yourself again? You never believe in your own strengths."

  "What else can I have going for me? Never thought about it..."

  "Compared to those children from intact families, you are unfortunate. You didn't receive the love and care of your parents and people around you, and you suffered more hardships and grievances than they did. That's why you had the opportunity to experience trials that they didn't have. In comparison, you are much stronger and braver than them, which is exactly what today's children lack, and it's a necessary condition for achieving anything great. If you adjust your attitude, work hard, take action, and become a valuable and respected person, then your chances of success will definitely be much higher than those so-called lucky ones. You know, willpower and courage are things that can't be exchanged for anything else, and this is exactly the advantage that you have but others don't."