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I always pay attention to the first impression I leave upon strangers. However, I have 31 that no stranger cares much about what you have done.
It was Saturday. I was very excited after a week’s hard study. What was more, my former classmate and best friend was coming to visit me.
When dusk 32 near, my friend appeared on time. We decided to have supper together and went to a restaurant. To my astonishment, many people were 33 at us as if we were monsters from other planet. I looked myself up and down, but found nothing was 34 . When I cast my eyes at my friend, suddenly I realized what had happened: I was with a boy 35 .
My friend also noticed it. We looked at each other and smiled. 36 , people kept staring at us throughout our meal 37 the strange atmosphere made us uncomfortable.
During the meal, I 38 that my friend finish as fast as possible, so that we could get out of such an embarrassing situation. Suddenly my friend noticed another classmate passing by the 39 and he rose to his feet to 40 him. But he was in such a hurry that he knocked down the table, leading to the hot soup pouring all over me. What was more, his voice caught people’s 41 again. The 42 on their faces showed me that they were laughing us.
How embarrassed I was! My face turned red and I wished I could find a hole to 43 in. As quickly as possible, I rushed out of the restaurant. My friend 44 and he caught up with me when I was so tired that I had to stop. But he was so 45 that it surprised at me.
“Don’t be too 46 what people think about you,” he said to me. “In fact, to many 47 , you are just a passing figure, like a piece of cloud in the sky, which will disappear in no 48 . Nobody knows who you are. You can just be yourself.”
Yes, he is right. No one in the restaurant actually knew who I was. I should just be myself and 49 others’ prejudices(偏见) aside. Life is a long road and we need not make such fuss(大惊小怪) of tiny things — it is too 50 .