Grotesque | Cassidy Berlin

I love to people-watch. Just gazing off and watching what other people do, how they react to certain situations and interact with other people. As I was looking around the room in my Education class one day I noticed the girl sitting right across from me. She’s a very pretty girl with dark brown hair, dark skin, two thumbs and dark brown eyes. Wait… two thumbs? Yep, the girl who sits across from me in my 2nd Tuesday and Thursday class has two thumbs on her right hand. It’s by far the coolest, craziest, most grotesque thing I have every seen. It really makes me wonder, every time I catch myself staring at it, if she ever considered getting one of the thumbs removed. I think to myself, “If I had that birth defect would I have the guts to keep it?” Out of the 40 people in our class, she is probably in the top five students who participate and answer questions the most. I totally respect this girl. She must really have a lot of self-confidence to not let something like two thumbs keep her from feeling like an outcast.