Best Friends are......

bestest friends ever!

What the phrase “best friend” means? In my opinion, best friend means someone who can accept you unconditionally and understands you completely.  Do you have best friends? I have a lot of best friends! Some of them are Gabriella, Nancy, Stacyana, Shelly, Hizkia, Kenneth, and a lot more! What my best friends mean to me? For me, they are the second most precious thing in my life after my family.

                Why I become best friend with them? First of all, we have many similarities. I am easy going, talkative, love watching movies, travelling, and I love basketball. Believe me or not, they love those things too! Second, they can accept me for what I am. They can understand that I’m short-tempered and I joke around a lot, so they don’t get offended if I joke with them. The third is because when I’m with them, I can be myself. I don’t have to change my appearance, my lifestyle, or anything.

                Why are they so precious to me? Because my friends are always available in my happiness or sadness. When I share my happiness, my friends don’t envy me, but they are also happy for it. When I’m sad and feeling down, they will ask me whether they can help me to less my burden and they always keep their ears open to hear my stories. We laugh and share our joys, but we also shed tears and face fears together. I consider all of my best friends as my brothers and sisters. We criticize and praise each other to strengthen our friendship.

                To wrap this up, a best friend is someone who understands you completely and accepts you unconditionally. A best friend won’t ask-moreover insist-you to do what you don’t like or to be what you want to be, because they want the best thing for you. Having best friends is just like having new family members because I consider my best friends as my brothers and sisters. I am very thankful that I have wonderful best friends like them. And just so you know, I loooooove my precious best friends!! They are just made to complete my world! =)

Everyday's Hero

The title “hero” isn’t only given to soldiers, teachers, or scientists. Ordinary people can also be a hero. For me, hero is a title which is given to a person who is considered meritorious. Who is your everyday hero? My hero is Sumi, and she is my housemaid. I think Sumi has big contribution in helping my daily life, that’s why I consider her as my everyday hero.

                My housemaid name is Sumi, she is 17 years old. She has been working in my home for 4 years. Everyday, she wakes up at dawn, washes the clothes, sweeps and mops the floor, does the dishes, and all the household things. I am very grateful of having her as my housemaid. I just can’t imagine how tiring my life will be if I have to wake up at dawn to do those things then go to college. I learn something from Sumi. She said no matter what I am doing, I have to enjoy and love it, so I can do the best and get the best result.

                Sumi also teaches me to realize my dream. Sumi has a dream of making her parents and siblings happy; she also wants to buy them a land to farm the rice. She quitted school several years ago and decided to work. There is always something to be sacrificed to reach the dream. I have to be hard working and not giving up easily in reaching my dream as a successful person.

                She may be just a housemaid, but I can learn things from her. First, I have to enjoy and love what I’m doing so I can do my best. The second is I have to realize my dream, not just dreaming of it. She also teaches me to start respecting people better. Don’t underestimate people with minor jobs like housemaid, cleaning service, driver, etc because we just don’t realize how big the effort they had in our everyday life.

This is a good quote I read yesterday

“You don’t have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things; to compete. You can be just an ordinary person, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals. The intense effort, the giving of everything you’ve got, is a very pleasant side effect” — Sir Edmond Hillary, adventurer 

I CAN!

I can’t be a patient person. I often lose control of my emotion. I get irritated easily if someone asks me too many questions. It’s just really upsetting for me. More even if I have to wait. I think waiting is the most unbearable thing in the world. I would rather do something else besides waiting. I really want to be more patient, but I don’t know how. I don’t like to hurt people with my words. But if I get angry or irritated, the words that come out from my mouth may be bad/harsh and I really want to fix that bad habit.

                From the commercial I learn about being patient. Everything needs a process. Those athletes must have been training for years before they succeed and become famous like they are today. If they don’t have the patience to wait for the result and get irritated by the training they did everyday, we will not see them winning those prestigious competitions and doing the endorsement for Nike. I have to push my patient limit and make it farther step by step. I have to be able to answer thousands of questions and wait no matter how long the time is. Later on, I wish I can see a checked mark in “patience” section in my heart. I can be a person with patience!!

this is the link of the commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9nCPbbngmI








a great quote to end the post
"Only those who has patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily" —  Johann Schiller, poet and historian

The Wisest Little Pig

Don’t you ever think a children story can actually teach you something? I recently read a short story titled “The Three Little Pigs”. The story is about 3 pigs that built houses with their own choose of material. The first pig built his house from straw, the second was from wood, and the third built it from brick. When a wolf attacked their houses, only the third pig’s house stand strong. This is because he has made a wise decision to make his house from brick. Here are some lessons I can learn from the pigs.

                First, it taught me about hard work. The biggest encounter of hardworking is laziness, and I have to learn to beat it like the third pig. It may be hard and take a long time for the third little pig to build his own house. But as the proverb says no pain no gain, in the end the third little pig gained a strong house from his “pain”. Hardworking also means giving my best. I am sure that the hard work I’ve done will not be in vain and I will get a satisfying result.

                The second lesson is knowing the priority of which one should be done first. Life is choice so I will always face with choices everyday, and make a wrong decision will bring me into failure. One time I had homework. I’ve finished it the day before, but haven’t printed it. I was too sleepy that time, so I decided to sleep and print the homework the next day. But I forgot and I got extra homework as the punishment. Actually it would only take few minutes to print the homework, but I made a wrong decision. This experience taught me to be wiser in choosing priority even in little things.

                Sometimes I underestimate a simple children story like this without reflecting even just once about what the story want to tell us. After reading it, I can learn two lessons. First is hardworking. I want to gain successes, so I have to be able to pass all the “pains” I have now. The second is knowing my priority so I know what I have to do, not what I want to do. It will not be easy to change my laziness, but it is not impossible, thank you for teaching me, wisest little pig!

ps: this is the full story if you wanna read :) www.ivyjoy.com/fables/threepigs.html

Be Grateful

Do you feel grateful for your life and for what you are? I didn’t use to be grateful. Sometimes I envy people because they are richer, smarter, more good looking, have more friends, or every aspects of their life just seem better than mine. Why? Because I am a human. Human will never feel satisfy of what they got and always feel lacking of something despite of what they had. Until one day, somebody gave me a short clip about Nick Vujicic and it was very inspiring and it taught me how to be grateful. I’ll tell you how this little man can teach you about being grateful!

                Nick was born on 4 December 1982 in Melbourne, Australia without limbs because of a rare disease called “Tetra-amalia syndrome”. Nick’s life was filled with difficulties and hardships. A key turning point in his life was when his mother showed him a newspaper article about a man dealing with the same condition as him named Hirotada Ototake. This led him to realize he wasn’t the only one with major struggles. As time went by Nick began to embrace his situation and achieve greater things. In grade seven Nick was elected captain of his school and worked with the student council there on various fund-raising events for local charities and disability campaigns. When he was seventeen, he started to give talks at his prayer group, and eventually started his non-profit organization, Life without Limbs. Nick graduated from college at the age of 21 with a double major. 

                                                          He may be physically disabled, but he is mentally greater than me! The first thing I have to learn from Nick is to be grateful. Can you imagine? Nick is limbless, yet he can still say “thank you God, I’m alive.”! I am physically normal, yet I still often whine about things I want to have, not what I need. I have to learn to be able to be thankful for my life and for what I am. The second thing I can learn from Nick’s life is happiness is not measured by money or physical condition. Nick can still enjoy his life with his condition, so I have to enjoy my life more than he does! The third thing I can learn from Nick is about knowing the purpose of our life. I believe that God created me for a purpose, so I have to keep moving on no matter how hard my life is or how big my problems are.

                I have to start to be grateful for everything I have in my life and for what I am. I have a loving family who take a very good care of me, I can buy things I want (even though not all of them, of course), I am physically perfect, and I am still healthily living. I will also change view about happiness. Don’t count happiness based on money or your physical appearance because if I do, I will never feel satisfy nor be thankful of your life. So, I am grateful for what I am!

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