Wings

It is when the pain seems beautiful in your life


“She says scars are like maps. They tell you where you been.” do you have any scar on your skin? How did you get it? You might get it when you felt down or practiced something. People will easily notice that you had done something so you got the scars. It is a record of your life’s history. It is like the story if Wings which begins with the eye gazing of scars.

It is a story about a girl with the scars on her ankles. The scars that sometimes she hided, but an old woman got a look at the scars and told her a story about other scars she had, a story which is full of deep symbols and lessons of life.
The old woman told the young woman about a little girl who was born with bumps on her ankles, but she grew beautifully as her parents took care of her. The tiny bumps grew with her. It is like the way parents take care of their children. The bumps on the ankles are just like something to control a kid movement. It represents that parents always have rule for their children, the rules will control their children’s movement, but at the same times it looks like something stops the children walking too fast or too far.

At the age of twelve the little girl grew up, to be a strong girl who like adventure and curious about many things. The parents still watched over her, as she was at the beginning of her teenager age where girls usually feel as if they were adult, hard to listen to their parents and want to have their own adventure. Her parents were wise to let her go for her adventure, it shows that they gave her responsibility, the girl still had bumps to band her movement, but we show that her parents let her go event gave her a pair of shoes which means a chance for her to step her feet wherever she wanted.

Everything was fine until she found a handsome sea horse at the age of eighteen. As she grew up to be a young woman, age of eighteen, her bumps turned into wings. She was not a girl anymore; she was a young woman who was considered as a mature human being with a freedom, wings, to make a decision. The age of eighteen is the age of desire, where people are at the top of their spirit, and say, “I’m alive”, everything’s exciting, a little emotional though. And at the age of eighteen she met a handsome sea horse, a handsome guy who had completely different life, but he was so strong to make her fall for him. It was love, something powerful that made her went down to the ocean, leave her big ambition and everything she had, that people had never seen as she flew so high, for the guy who probably an aborigine.
It’s been hours since she played under water with the sea horse, she felt a beauty of love she never knew before. As a young woman who was in love, she saw everything’s beautiful as long as she’s with the guy she loved. They perhaps live together, as the old woman said that they played underwater for hours and share food together, and everything was so beautiful, they felt their desire of love. Until someday a storm blew up, it’s show that problems came to their life, they might fight or her parents didn’t want her to live with the guy. Lightning cracked over their heads, it shows that there’s fighting, it might about her parents were angry with her, but at the same time she and the guy kept their relationship. There were only two choices; flew through the storm to save her life and wings, came back to her parents, but she would be hurt and got a broken heart or sink to the ocean for the sea horse, but lost her wings forever. The young woman was full of desire and deeply in love, she couldn’t think about the consequence of her decision. She decided to lose her wings, get the scars on her ankles which she couldn’t remove forever. And the end of the story the young woman understood that she only followed her desire, the guy left her alone. He’s gone without telling her anything.

Though she understood that love was more than just a desire, she couldn’t deny that she regretted, she was even ashamed because of the scars on her ankles. She tried to cover it all time. She didn’t want anybody noticed her broken heart and the ironic story about her life, the scars. However, the old woman who symbolize a wise woman showed that everybody had scars, means everybody has their sad experience and has something that makes he/she regrets and gets a broken heart, but you don’t have to cover that all time, because trough that pain you will find that life’s beautiful anyway. Who you are today is an ending of your yesterday beautiful story.