The worst and the most awkward stage of life for most people are their teenage years. People face a lot of awkward things at this phase. But among them, the worst one is being compared to their parents. As that is the age when the children start to resemble their parents the most.
Dawn grew up to be a very independent child. She always believed herself to be her very own person, so naturally, when she reached her teens, she found it very maddening when people started pointing out the obvious resemblance between herself and her mother Portia. You look like your mom, you act like your mom, your voices sound so similar, you are her carbon copy, were the few things she heard the most. Don’t get her wrong because Dawn looked up to and respected her mother a lot but despite that, she found it pretty offending when people just tried to find Portia inside her instead of just appreciating Dawn for who she is.
Dawn was a very socially awkward person, so obviously she just chose to awkwardly smile at any kind of event where people seemed to know her but she didn’t know anybody.
At an event like that, an elderly woman suddenly came up to Dawn and said, “Oh! They weren’t lying, it seems like you do look like a replica of your mother”! Dawn giggled awkwardly while saying, “Everyone says the same to me”. The woman smiled at her while calling her friends and sister forward to show them how Portia’s daughter looked exactly like her, when her sister interrupted, “I don’t see the exact similarity, to be honest, I mean she kind of looks like a mixture of both of her parents”. Dawn, who had been fiddling uncomfortably looked at the woman with awe, feeling appreciated. The woman smiled at her kindly and said, “Oh honey I’ve seen the videos that your mother posts, they are fabulous. Keep up the good work, we would all love to see more of such content”. With that, the woman left giving her one last smile along with the confidence that she can indeed grow up to be her own person without everyone else trying to find her mother in her.
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