“It’s not about winning or losing, but loving what you’re doing.”
It all started with a bar of modeling clay and a pack of straws. First, we thought of a plan that would help us built a tall and strong structure. What came up on our minds was to build a tower, but the problem is how to make it strong enough to stay standing for the rest of the hour. One of us suggested that the strongest base or foundation is a triangle-shaped platform. Everybody agreed to the idea, and when the thirteen minutes of creating the said plan started, we carefully constructed the planned structure quietly but with haste. We we’re pressured because of the time allotted for the activity, but despite of the time flying so fast for us to hear it’s tick-tucking on our ears, I had this funny but wonderful feeling of excitement and happiness creeping in my nerves, especially when the tower stood tall among others. And as one of the five people who built it, I felt proud yet stayed humble for the outcome of the game. Our tower may not be that strong to withstand the blow of the air but the tower we built won, being the last standing structure among eight structures.
Just like my life, for me to be able to withstand the blow of trials, I should be sure that I have the best and strongest foundation in life and that is having God as the center of my life. I may be like a straw, not that strong but still when you combined it with another, and then combining it with the clay to connect the structure that will become tall and strong. There’s a time during the activity that our tower seem to loss its strength and slowly fell down but what we did was that we put another set of straw in the sides to prevent it from falling down and it worked, and we were relieved. There are so many problems, difficulties and frustrations in life, it just depends on the person if he or she wants to stand up and fight, and in order so, strategies and technique should be used as early as possible to prevent it from getting worst.
In every negative thing that happened in my life, I felt proud, for the fact that I learned to face and accept it, at least the very positive way that I could.
“It might have been”, these words that I often used, has been a way of catching up with lot of things. I’ve known how painful regret can be, especially when lives are deeply affected. But regardless of how sheltered or permissive our past, all of us have had regrets accompanied with feelings of guilt. I will not deny the fact that because I hadn’t done what I planned to do, I didn’t feel frustrated. Yes I am, it seems that plans are always planned ahead to be followed not to be declined. And the outcome should be according to what was planned.
As I bid goodbye to psychology 100, leaving all the stress yet enjoyable feeling while thinking, reflecting and writing lots of reflection paper, I can say that I had learned many things, especially the way I think, move and deal with lot of things. Life can be appreciated with just a simple reflection paper, when you reflect to it, by heart and as one way of knowing and understanding yourself better, to become the best that you can be.
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