Little Inklings 2022

THE BOY WHO HAD EVERYTHING ELENI HARALAMBIDES ❜ 26 Milo was 15 and he was the most privileged boy that I have ever met. He spent every other weekend on his yacht in some exotic and very expensive country while the rest of us sat at home alone in our gray rooms bored and lonely. Not only was Milo the most privileged person that I have ever met, but he was also the rudest person in my whole school. For some reason, I have been thinking about this often. I walked to my first class of the day and I had never been so happy to see that Milo was absent today. After my class waited around 30 minutes we realized our teacher was not there either! We were all so happy, we got a free period! To be honest, I don’t know how this happened but my class ended up talking about the one and only Milo. The more we talked about him the more frustrated we got. As we talked more about evil Milo we slowly developed a plan. We wanted Milo to see what it felt like to be in our shoes. To deal with awful people like him every day. I wanted him to feel how I feel when he talks to me. I wanted him to feel awful. When I got home from school, I went straight to my room and I made a list of all the ways that I could make Milo’s life miserable. I sat at my desk for hours daydreaming about switching places with Milo. Sadly, I knew this could not happen. Oddly enough, this made me feel such strong hate towards him. This was a weird feeling, I kept lying to myself saying I had never felt this before but I knew that was a lie. As the hours passed my list grew longer and my hate grew stronger. This was an awful feeling but I felt as though I could not control it. As more time passed my bubble finally burst. I looked at the list. How could this happen? What is wrong with me? Why did I do this? The list had 102 bullet points. I was mortified. I looked at the mirror on my wall and I felt different. What had I done? Why was I so jealous of someone who is also human? Why did our differences bother me so much? After many questions I realized Milo wasn’t so awful, he never bragged and when I thought about it I realized that he was very quiet too. This realization scared me. How did my jealousy transform my mind like that? What was wrong with me? 74