FeatherSmoothie. wrote:Well, here's my story.
My friend has always been better than me. She's a great artist, Decent poet (Most of the things she writes aren't even poetry, just descriptive writing), she has a good singing voice, and she always seems to get a lot of attention. But, I always get shunned. Both my friend and I would be drawing something, and someone will look at both of ours, and say "Nice drawing, ___", without even making a remark at mine. We used to have Challenges at our art activity, too try and draw something. One day, it could be "Only use this once colour," or "Only draw using lines", etc. I came up with idea, because a lot of us didn't have anything to do at activity period. But one of our friends decided to make it into a contest. I ended up stopping it, because my friend would almost always win. But what really saddens me is this: We joke about how bad my art is. I don't want to, but she always does. One day, in class, I finished my work really early, so I spent the rest of the class period drawing this girl, and I was really proud of. I showed it to her, but she just laughed and thought I was joking. That day, I went home and ripped up that drawing, even though I loved it so much.
Whenever my friend is writing something, everyone considers it poetry. But it's not. She just draws something and puts something that would be related to poetry in its words, but it never is. And whenever I make an actual piece of writing, nobody gives it any praise. Now, you may have read her vent art, or what ever it is, and she mentions our English Teacher in it. Now, I'm pretty sure I was the teacher's pet in English. She always loved me, and probably my friend too. But I always think of her when my friend always gets a compliment on her writing. I was always amazing to her, even if I wasn't to others. That's why I love writing, because you can be anything, and you can almost never screw up. But I never read fantasy books anymore, because I know I'm not extraordinary, I'll never get a letter to Hogwarts, I'll never get a Savvy, and I'll never get pulled for the Hunger Games.
Also, she's so used to being perfect. She has won a JMD. Soon after that, we went to a fun fair at my church. We had a raffle, and one of the prizes was an iPad mini. She the number was 5-some numbers long, and the girl picking the numbers got it, how funny! But my friend had the same first 3-some numbers, and the last two numbers were 47. The last two winning numbers were 74. She freaked out because she didn't win. I told her that you couldn't win everything, but I don't think she can accept it.
I'm not normal, I'm worse the normal. I'm not perfect, like she is. I can't do anything, and whenever I try, she always points out to me that I'm not perfect. I guess I'll never be.
Just tell your friend how it makes you feel when she makes fun of your art. Me and my twin friend are like that. She's always been a great artist, and the only thing about my drawings that was ever good about mine were the eyes. What I did was ask her for some advice on how to switch it up and make it better, and I slowly got better with advice, not criticism.
I think you need to remind her that no one is perfect, but maybe asking for advice instead of letting her laugh at your drawings might help pull the competition out of your friendship.
I know I've already lost him..