“I don't want to go to school anymore.”
She had repeated that sentence to herself countless times, yet she still lacked the courage to say it out loud. Pretending to be sick and coming up with one excuse after another, she attended school only every other day and understood very little of the difficult lessons in her final year of high school.
She had no friends there. She felt like a stranger, and the hours dragged by painfully until the final bell rang. On her way to school, she often wondered why she had become so absent-minded and why she could no longer focus on anything.
The only subject she truly cared about was literature. Literature pulled her forward and rescued her from the darkness. She carried Sophie's World with her like a sacred book. She no longer wanted to sit behind a desk like a ghost, following the demanding mathematics and physics lessons of her final year with boredom and indifference.
She wanted to become an artist and a philosopher. She wanted to find her own path—a path that would set her blood racing and make her feel alive.
At last, one day, she turned to her parents and told them that she was no longer going to school. She promised, however, that she would still pass her final exams.
Now, several years later, she has become a writer. She has good friends, believes in herself, and lives a rich and fulfilling life. At last, she has found a world that feels truly her own—a world filled with discovery, wonder, and endless new beginnings.
