Ricardo's Struggle

Being a child of two beautiful parents gets hard sometimes. I begin to wonder what happened to me. Going to school everyday is hard for me when my friends and fellow classmates are all more attractive than me, it makes me feel bad about myself. My parents Maddy and Arlette tell me that I'm beautiful just the way I am and what counts is on the inside not the outside but they don't understand that looking in the mirror makes me hate myself. One day I was in Mrs. Maldonado's science class and we started talking about mitosis and meiosis and then I realized that there was no way I could've changed how I look and I need to take pride in that, thank you parents for loving me even when I don't love myself.