-Izume’s perspective-
“Izume you have to know what brings you sadness in order to know what brings you joy, if you hadn’t fallen off your bicycle you wouldn’t know the satisfaction of actually learning to ride it. Never let despair or failure be the end of the story, because happiness you didn’t notice before could be right around the corner!”
I puff out my cheeks and cross my arms as I sit on the hard sidewalk with scraped elbows and knees. ‘No, instead of just a helmet you should have given me elbow and knee pads, then I wouldn’t be hurt or sad in the first place!’
“But I always fall, I’ll never learn to ride that...that death trap!”
Heavyweight lets out a hearty chuckle and picks my bike up off of the ground. “How about we make a deal, If you can ride all the way to the store without your training wheels then I’ll get you ice cream!”
I sprout tiny wolf ears and a tail and with a new found determination I agree.
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