My mother yelled for me discontentedly. I was putting on my shoes. When I heard the sound, I got off the couch, and looked down at my skirt. “Don’t you think it looks good? It fits me perfectly,” I said. She kept asking me where I was going, and I repeated that I had to go to the barbecue with my friends. We made a deal before, if not she wouldn’t let me out. Mom insisted that before she sent me to the place, she wanted to know who I was going with. I was embarrassed when she asked my friends for their names and phone numbers in order to contact them conveniently. At that time, I realized that she never understood me at all and I also didn’t understand her. In fact, parents always say that young people who are still studying in the school should not be in love when they are a student. They think that the relationship between a girlfriend and boyfriend will impact the lives of young people in a negative way. So do teachers. How do you feel about it? When a young person wants to learn something new or join a new group, their parents might worry about what kind of people he or she makes friends with. They invariably have their own opinion about their child’s decision. I really hate parents who do that to their children when they want to try the new things. Every time I have to think about my parent before I make a decision, because I am scared they will be mad at me. You might have same problem with me, because you are not supposed to against your parent, even though you still want to do your own thing. In the summer break when I was going to middle school, everyone was so excited to have free time. The warm sunshine on my face was a signal pushing me to go outside to play. The pity was that I could not share the sunlight with my playmates because my parent didn’t allow me to go out alone. Everything happens for a reason. A few weeks prior, I was interested in learning Taekwondo, and was trying to persuade my mother to let me go. In the beginning, Mom disagreed because it's a boys' sport, and it would be inappropriate for me because I'm a girl. Taekwondo was so cool and exciting to me, and it would make me stronger and healthier. There were so many young people learning it, but my mother was very hardheaded; she wouldn’t support me monetarily. “There is no reason for me to let you learn meaningless things! I’m not going to sponsor you!” We had a huge argument after that. “No! Mom, Taekwondo is important to me! Don’t let me fight with you!” I admit that I inherited mom’s temper. However, I could not change her mind, and I decided to use my pocket money to learn Taekwondo. Then, an amazing thing happened. In my Taekwondo class, I met a young coach who was 16 years old; he was only older than me by about three years. He was my coach, but he was still young, like me. So, we became friends instantly. We always stayed together; he taught me a lot of skills of Taekwondo. One day, he told me that he fell in love with me, but I thought he was crazy at the time. It was something I never thought possible, and it confused me greatly. “Um...Sorry, you were always like a brother in my heart.” When he said that, I just ran away. Later, he followed me after the class, when I was on my way home. I walked fast, but he held my bag to keep up with my step. He saw my sour face, but he didn’t change his mind and hoped that I would accept him. My mother found out when she walked downstairs, she saw the boy and asked me who it was. I told her the truth. The boy was driven away by my mom. So of course she stopped me from learning Taekwondo because she thought I wasn’t focused on learning, but rather on playing with the boy. She thought I was totally wrong for learning Taekwondo. I knew that it was ridiculous, but it wasn’t my int