And he no longer dares to face her eyes.
A focus that hits the mark
When Emilie returns to her seat, beaming, Mathieu attempts an awkward approach. “I didn’t know who you were…” he begins, no doubt hoping to make up for it.
But Emilie is not fooled.
She responds quietly, with quiet strength: “It doesn’t matter who I am. “You should never treat people that way.” And her sentence resonates as a universal truth: “I can’t control my weight, but you can change your attitude.”
Because we don’t always get to pick our bodies, but we can always decide how we treat others.
