I remember wondering if we should even be friends when I found out that my new friend Karina did not share my opinions about some stuff. It was hard to imagine disagreeing with her about anything, because when we first met, we got along so great.
It was as if we'd known each other forever. Whenever we got to pick a partner at camp, we picked each other. Whenever we had a break, we hung out together. And the more time we spent together, the more we realized how amazingly alike we were. We both had two lovely cats. We both liked baking extra-creative cookies.
But then something happened. The tent camp was next to a piece of beautiful land that had a bunch of giant old trees on it. Whenever it was nice out, we'd get to eat our lunch at picnic tables that were right by some of those trees. "Whoa!" said Karina one day. "Look at the millions of holes all the way up and down this trunk."
"That's amazing," I said. "A special kind of woodpecker（啄木鸟）makes those holes to store acorns （橡子）."
"Pretty cool! "said our counselor, Miguel. "Now, let's all be sure to keep this magical forest as clean and perfect. Don't forget to put your trash and recyclables in the bins."
And that's when things got complicated. "Hey," said our friend LeVar. "Have you guys heard that shopping-mall rumor （传闻）? They want to cut down a bunch of those trees to make room for a shopping center."
"That's terrible!" I said. "We have to stop that."
"I disagree," said Karina. "My parents said the shopping center would make new jobs for people."
"But think of all the birds and squirrels that would lose their homes!" I said. "I want people to have jobs, but not if it means cutting down trees."
"Don't you think people's jobs are more important than trees?" Karina asked.
"Can't we figure out how to make jobs without destroying nature?" I answered.
"You know," Karina said, super seriously, "maybe we're not quite as alike as we thought."
I sighed sadly.
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Maybe two people with opposite points of view just aren't meant to be friends, I was thinking. |
We ended up having much more fun at the tent camp |
