My name is Al. When I was a young boy, I didn't fit in with the other kids. I felt different.

Some kids made fun of me.

I used to have a hard time at school. Things that were easy for some kids were difficult for me. My mind wandered, and I couldn't pay attention to what the teacher said. In fact, some teachers thought I might never graduate(毕业).

While other kids lived for gym class, I hated it. I didn't see the point in the games the kids played.

Then one day, I saw something that really changed my life. I was looking at a compass (指南针) and thought, "Why does that little needle (针) always know where north is? " It may seem silly now, but at that time, it made me take a second look at this thing I had seen many times before. I asked the simple question, "Why?"

I started to read about it and in doing so, I found that physics was really interesting to me. I started borrowing books from school and learning the math behind common things of everyday life.

I started catching up with my classmates. Soon, I was beyond them. By the end of high school, I was far ahead of my teachers.

I got a job at an office. In my spare time, I worked on my ideas. I sent these ideas to a university. The university told me that I had come up with something very important.

Since then, my ideas have been used to look at the world differently. Some say that they changed the way we look at the universe.

It all started that day when I looked at something I had seen many times and asked the question, "Why?"

You may know me. My name is Al… Albert Einstein.