A friend who changed me

A friend who changed me

Wisaphorn Intarachueajan

When I was about six year old, I always thought that I was a boy because I had been growing up with my cousins. All we played was shooting guns and playing with car toys. If I was lucky, they would play family with me. I loved to be a mommy, so I could yell at my boys and told them what to do. Sometimes We had a cheating daddy with his other girlfriend, I would get to play as a mean wife and slapped the other girlfriend of my husband (fake slaps) because we learned it from Soap Opera on the television at night. It makes me laugh every time I think about how funny my cousin acted like a girl to be the other girlfriend of my husband. Anyhow, that was the only time I get to play like a girl. Other than that, I was a boy soldier. Oh! I could be a wrestler too, I always beat my skinny cousins because I was fat and bigger than them. That's how I got accepted from the boys.

I actually had girlfriends also. They lived not very far from my house, but they were teenagers. All they did was talking about boys and making themselves look pretty. I was only six year old, who cared if I walked around barefoot or picked my nose and wiped it on my shirt. Those girls thought I was too fat and gross to be around "too cool girls" like them.I would have exploded to be around them anyway. All I had to do was listening to them talking about boys. Why? Boys were not that fun! Except for getting them beaten.

One day, a new neighbor just moved in. I was seven at the time and was still a tomboy. God might have felt sorry for me or something so he sent me a daughter of the new neighbor next door to play with me and she was my age. We became good friends and played together everyday. We also opened our own restaurants and took turns going to each other's restaurant because the boys wouldn't like to buy our food that made of leaves and dirt. She also invented Barbie dolls to my life. I forgot how much loved to beat the boys on wrestling! I turned to be real girl because of her.

If I did not know her, I would have been a tom boy until now. I have not seen her since I started going to high school. She has moved to another town with her parents. I still haven't heard about her since then but I never forgot about her. She was one of the most important persons in my life. I am a girl until now because of her :)