Since I was a child, my parents used to tell me "if someone hurts you, you have only two options, you can either be nice or don't do anything to him. Do not change your personality depends on the way people act toward you". At the beginning, I disagreed with them, because I always though that if someone hurts me, I have to hurt him back, so this person would know how I felt. But after a while, I discovered that my way of thinking was wrong. When I decided to apply this advice, I found out that this lesson changed my way of viewing the society, and my relation with people around me.
Nowadays, this lesson totally transform me. Before, I was pessimistic, now it is the opposite. In the same way, I always have a positive mind, because I don't waste my time anymore thinking about what people have done to me, and how to get it back to them. In the same way, this perspective helps keep good relations with other people. Sometimes, people hurt others on purpose, just to make them angry. Being passive is a sign of maturity. However, I will always be thankful to my parents for teaching me this lesson, making me understand what is important in life and making me become mature.
Nowadays, this lesson totally transform me. Before, I was pessimistic, now it is the opposite. In the same way, I always have a positive mind, because I don't waste my time anymore thinking about what people have done to me, and how to get it back to them. In the same way, this perspective helps keep good relations with other people. Sometimes, people hurt others on purpose, just to make them angry. Being passive is a sign of maturity. However, I will always be thankful to my parents for teaching me this lesson, making me understand what is important in life and making me become mature.
Similarly to what happened to you, the lessons that I learned from my parents also transformed me.
ReplyDeleteStephanie, I really liked your post. I totally agree with the lesson your parents taught you and I think this is a good thing to have on mind. Sometimes, when we are too young we don't realize the importance of certain lessons, however, as the time goes by we are maturity enough to see what is right and what is wrong.
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Stephanie, Being passive is a sign of maturity, I like this sentence. I know when someone hurt ourselves what should we do. It's a kind of attitude to show your kindness and as long as we do things in a right way we should not care too much on their comments.
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