You are not protecting yourself, you are escaping!
You are not being humble, you are showing inferiority complex!
You are not optimistic, you are negative!
Do you understand or not?
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The boy who was content with being ordinary met the dazzling one. When they first met, the boy's ordinaryness disgusted him. However, in their future interactions, the boy's optimism moved him. As the distance between the two narrowed, a strange feeling arose in his heart.