Eren's Influence On Our Innocent Minds

Being younger, people like me are influenced by countless things our eyes see and what our minds tell us. The words people speak go over our heads and suddenly, we believe the stories they tell our innocent minds. People will happily manipulate us. Levi had many stories kids were pleased to make known. There was never a day where I’d walk the halls of school and conspiracies of the young boy would come my way. Eren would tell me a lot about him. Most of the stories I would obtain from my greatest friend. It was very much like my friend to gossip about rumors such as ones Levi had been faulted to. I paid very little attention to the careless words that they would call the young boy. However, with every word they shot at him like venom, it lured me in like the poison they injected him with. It was very intriguing to listen to someone who seemed so caught up in their own, personal labyrinth. There were all these people taken under a flame of lies and unspoken truths and just not enough rain. …show more content…
The cuts and bruises all over his tainted body showed it like an art piece. Even if he tried to hide it, it was no use because everyone already knew what happens when one of his family members gets angry. Eren then told me that he’d grow up to be just like his parents. Since Eren’s dad was a therapist, he said that the abused will one day end up like the abusers if they haven’t already. I didn’t believe that moon eyed, winter skinned young boy would ever do something like that. Not without someone there to help him along the way. I saw Levi was as an unfinished canvas, awaiting colors to be splashed on him. He, however, cannot do it himself. Someone needs to be there to be his colors. I guess no one else saw him the way I