When I was 15 months old, I had a bad fall. I landed on a glass rabbit and it cut one of my1badly enough to blind it. Since then my scarred（有疤痕的） and blind eye2on with me.
Not all people were friendly to me. Some asked uncomfortable questions about my eye or3played jokes on me. I grew up feeling that everyone4me. 5, every time Mom noticed I was unhappy, she would say to me, "The world inside you is always colorful. 6 your head up high and face the world. " The7 helped me move on in life.
8a teenager, I always looked down to hide（隐藏） my shame（羞愧）, but I found that people liked me 9I kept my head up high. In high school I even became monitor（班长）, but outside I still felt like a freak（怪物）. All I really wanted was to look like other people. When things got really10 , I would cry to my mom and she would look at me with loving eyes and say, "Keep your head up high and face the world. Let them see the love that is11 . " Mom's love was like the12that made me bright. 13 I was able to face everything bravely. I learned not only to appreciate （欣赏）14 but to have love for others.
"Keep your head up high" has been heard many times in my home. Each of my children has felt its15 . It lives on with my children, too.
