学进去

All students have to face their own problems and worries when they are growing up.

There are three girls in the Smith family, Amanda, Theresa and me. I am the youngest. We live in a small town in Pennsylvania, the US. People often said things to me, like “Oh, the three of you, you’re such nice girls. Your sisters are so pretty and so thin! You’re really nothing like them.” That made me really upset.

At school, all of my teachers had taught my sisters. On the first day of school, they said, “Oh, the youngest of the three! I hope you’re just like your sisters. They’re such wonderful students.”

People always compared(比较) me with my sisters. So I couldn’t help comparing myself with them. Theresa was smarter, and Amanda was prettier. I began to work hard to be more like them. What my sisters did, I did, too. At last, I became the lead drummer(首席鼓手) of our school’s marching band(仪仗队). Both Amanda and Theresa had been lead drummers.

But last year, Amanda went to college, and Theresa went to high school. Now everyone knows me, because I’m the lead drummer.

Now I don’t feel like a Smith girl any more; I feel like myself. I’m proud(骄傲) of doing all of the same great things that my sisters did. But the best thing I did was to learn to stop comparing myself with them.