I'd Like to Tell You- Stargirl

Dear Leo,
Why? In high school it is said that we are shaped for who we are going to be later. All through life people are in different, personal phases. These are our own and what make us different. Love should not stand in the way of this and neither should your lack of self esteem. You met a wonderful, brilliant, shining girl and tried to hid her light under a basket (metaphorically). Even the Christian Bible says "No one lights a lamp and puts it in a place where it is hidden, or under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, so that those who come in may see the light (Luke 11:33)." Stargirls only come into your life once. Treat it like a sign, a sign that you should learn to open your closed mind and start to see beauty and hope. Even though I can understand where you're coming from, wanting Stargirl to be normal. But what is "normal"? Is it what we make ourselves think? An unattainable standard that we are all trying to reach in our lives? Promising ourselves that it will make us happy? Let her lead you for a while and let her show you her normal. And PLEASE don't repress her smile and booming laugh. Some people are so full of life they can contain it until it starts to pour over, and when it does others should be there to catch some of it for themselves.