Scars

A cut on your arm, a burn on your finger, a hard fall, even surgery, all of these things leave scars. Every person has a scar, every scar has a story, and every story has a moral. I have several scars, but when I think of scars, three stand out the most.
“A dog’s bark is worse than his bite,” a famous expression. Yet this isn’t always true. At the age of seven I found that out the hard way. I was at friend Ryan’s house at the time, both our parents had gone and left Ryan’s nanny in charge of us. I don’t really remember how but somehow I wound up alone in the backyard with the dog, Paylay. Paylay has always had a bad temper, I don’t know what I did but she got mad and bit me above my right eye! She chased me around the yard, I hid in one of the trees until Ryan and her nanny found me. That dog has never liked me, and probably never will. Not everyone will like you, no matter how hard you tr...