It has been 2 weeks since school started and I am now embracing American Education with humility in my heart. I graduated 2009 from my University and from that moment on, I did not experience anymore the pressure of pushing myself for the best to get high grades. Well, I am not really the type of student before who really tries and just give all my gut to achieve perfection. I am the lenient and the relax type and I would say a mediocre but a little higher than that. I know I have the best shot to give but I just don't commit myself to excellence with all my heart, energy and soul.
After taking a rest for school for 2 years, I forgot the feeling of being controlled by professors, "do this, pass this, this is due this tomorrow, you should report to class on time, etc,. I actually did not missed that feeling but I realized that now I am in a different environment, I felt the need to be pressured and forced to do things with teachers. It's now getting into my system why teachers need to be strict and why they have to pressure us with requirements, studying and being responsible because they are actually teaching us that Life will always be about pressure and responsibilities.
I am not saying that I now love strict teachers but now that I am here in the US, I am slowly understanding the reason why teachers wanted us push to our limits, I now felt the importance of really aiming high and do the best than modiocrity. I am one of the students before who would not want to be pressured and I hated it when the teacher will give us a very long assignments and sometimes would give us complicated ones. But now that I experienced the real world and was able to picture the realities of it, I can proudly say that those teachers who molded me to become the best on every field of my life just made the right thing. If it weren't for them, I wouldn't realized the value of sacrifice in education. It is true, being a student will always be hard and there always be difficulties especially with subjects that we don't really like but that's how really life is.....
WE CANNOT CHOOSE THE SUBJECTS OF OUR LIFE, WE CANNOT CHOOSE THE INTENSITY OF DIFFICULTY, WE CANNOT CHOOSE THE PROFESSORS BUT WE CAN ALWAYS CHOOSE WHEN TO PURSUE AND WHEN TO MOTIVATE OURSELVES TO JUST MOVE FORWARD AND LOOK FORWARD.
AFTER ALL, LIFE IS ALL ABOUT RESPONSIBILITY, SACRIFICE AND DISCIPLINE.
I may be a student now in the classroom, but I will forever be a student in this LIFE.
