Life is a journey. In
the crossroad of life, we feel struggle to decide the life path that we want
to approach and don’t want to approach. Due to pressure from society, we have
to select another option that we may not like in order to fit ourselves to the
society. For example, you have a passion in writing, but you have to give it up
because of criticism from friends, discouragement from parents and pressure
from society and they provoke you follow their expectation that you not prefer
at all. You have a passion in teaching and you can be a good teacher but people
judge you will not be selected due to better candidates compete for the application,
you should go to work for a company due to stable salary. Therefore, it brings
an important lesson to me recently which is as follow:
Don’t let the people
proves what you should do,
You have to
prove to the people, what you can do.
In this competitive
world, certain of the people always judge you on what you can do and can’t do.
They always preferred to use past experiences to prove that your idea is not
working. You can deliver speech in front of the audiences but they said you
can’t because you cannot create resonance among the audiences. In fact, you can
do it if you wish to do it. As the quote goes by James Allen: of all of the
beautiful truths pertaining to the soul which have restored and brought to
light in this age, none is more gladdening or fruitful of divine promise and
confidence than this, that you are master of your thought, the molder of your
character, and the maker and shaper of condition, environment, and destiny.
Long story short, I
have a friend who is weak at academic performance. Friends also judge him
cannot complete study due to poor result
He told me that life is difficult because his result is poor and no
company are looking for him in the future if there is no improvement in
academic performance. As friend, I advised him that failure is the highway to
success, failure can bring valuable lessons for you to become wise and mature.
It lets you find another path to success and lead you to a better life. We should
face the failure instead of defining the failure. While my friend heard the
advice, he starts to study hard to improve his academic performance to solve
his problem. Now, he is graduated from university and found his ideal job in
this own career.
Therefore, from my
friend's experience, it proves that you are the key person to lead thyself from
mediocrity to extraordinary. To make it persuasive, I would like to share an
experience about myself to prove the others’ fact is wrong. When I was in upper
school, I got an offer letter to enter college to pursue my studies. Without any
option, I have to leave school to pursue my studies. When my school colleagues
heard the news, they seek to ask advice from the teacher whether the course offered
to me good or not. Frankly, the teacher told the colleagues there is no
problem for the course but the root problem is the student himself. It indicates
that I cannot complete the study because of my poor ability and capability.
Instead of disappointing, during college life, I learn from zero, start to
learn calculation, sharpen my language and presenting skills, and explore new
knowledge which is helpful to me. Finally, I earn a gold medal in my academic
performance during the graduation ceremony. Although it is a small achievement
but it obviously proves that negative judgment from people will not affect your
way to success if you work hard to make it happened.
In conclusion, most of
us like to take people's advice as a consideration in order to avoid face failure
and disadvantages. Owing to this reason, our goals will be limited by us
because of staying people's perception. We can become a great speaker, teacher,
leader, writer, or others but when people say cannot to us, certain of us
prefer to stay mediocrity. Our vision is being hidden by us. The fact is, we
cannot fulfill every expectation set by people but we have the responsibility to
lead thyself to success. Therefore, we should prove to the people, we can
change something by putting 100 % effort into the works so that we can become
stronger and better than before. Learn to understand yourself, you will
discover that, you can lead yourself from mediocrity to extraordinary.
waw that`s great that you didn`t give up even of discouragement from others...
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Hi Martin, thanks for your positive comment!
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