Living in the present
What is living in the present? In the past, I could not
understand this. However, through the things that I experienced, I
begin to understand a little bit of what living in the present is. It is to
focus on the present and try the best to do what you are doing right now. Do
not live in the past and also do not look forward to the future that is full of
imagination. No one can predict what will happen in the next second. The only
thing we can take control is the present. When happiness comes, we should learn
to enjoy it. Meanwhile, when troubles come, we should try our best to figure
them out instead of suffering from the troubles and complaining about life.
Why we should choose to forget the honor that we got in the past? The reason is the honor that we got in the past might be the burden when we start another journey in our life. What does it mean? Taking myself as an example, when I was young and studied in elementary school, I was good at mathematics. It was a normal thing for me to distract in the mathematics class. However, I could finish the homework very easily and get a grade that would make my parents smile. I was never worried about my mathematics. And this experience made me consider that I had the talent for mathematics. When I was twelve years old, I left elementary school and I became a middle school student. At the beginning, I was always distracted in mathematics class, because I thought that I could get a great grade in this course just like I did at elementary school. In the first mathematics exam, I got the grade that I expected. As a result, this experience made me consider that I do be a mathematics genius. In the second month, I pay less attention in the class. However, I found that the homework became harder and harder. I could not understand more and more of the formulas. You can image that I got a terrible grade in the second exam. This grade had a strong impact and I began to doubt myself. I ran to ask my teacher about this. The communication enlightened me a lot. One of the reasons that I got a good grade in mathematics when I was in elementary school was that the mathematics in elementary school was simple. This made me have an incorrect impression about mathematics. Getting a good grade in elementary school did not mean that I got a talent for mathematics. When I became a middle school student, the only thing that I have to do was leave the past in the past, just the lyric in the song, LET IT GO. There is a story about Nobel prize. It says that a writer got the Nobel prize cannot write a better literary work than before. The possible cause is the writers feeling stressful after they get the prize. Comparing with the achievements they get before, they are worried about if they can have better works to go beyond them. They are too stressful to write a better literary works. To get rid of stress, the writer must forget the honor that he or she get before. That means the writer cannot live in the past. On the other words, they should live in the present.
Why we should choose to forget the honor that we got in the past? The reason is the honor that we got in the past might be the burden when we start another journey in our life. What does it mean? Taking myself as an example, when I was young and studied in elementary school, I was good at mathematics. It was a normal thing for me to distract in the mathematics class. However, I could finish the homework very easily and get a grade that would make my parents smile. I was never worried about my mathematics. And this experience made me consider that I had the talent for mathematics. When I was twelve years old, I left elementary school and I became a middle school student. At the beginning, I was always distracted in mathematics class, because I thought that I could get a great grade in this course just like I did at elementary school. In the first mathematics exam, I got the grade that I expected. As a result, this experience made me consider that I do be a mathematics genius. In the second month, I pay less attention in the class. However, I found that the homework became harder and harder. I could not understand more and more of the formulas. You can image that I got a terrible grade in the second exam. This grade had a strong impact and I began to doubt myself. I ran to ask my teacher about this. The communication enlightened me a lot. One of the reasons that I got a good grade in mathematics when I was in elementary school was that the mathematics in elementary school was simple. This made me have an incorrect impression about mathematics. Getting a good grade in elementary school did not mean that I got a talent for mathematics. When I became a middle school student, the only thing that I have to do was leave the past in the past, just the lyric in the song, LET IT GO. There is a story about Nobel prize. It says that a writer got the Nobel prize cannot write a better literary work than before. The possible cause is the writers feeling stressful after they get the prize. Comparing with the achievements they get before, they are worried about if they can have better works to go beyond them. They are too stressful to write a better literary works. To get rid of stress, the writer must forget the honor that he or she get before. That means the writer cannot live in the past. On the other words, they should live in the present.
In
the following part, I would like to discuss about we cannot live in the future.
What will happen in the future? No one can predict the future. Sometimes, we do
not even know what will happen in the next second. What is living in the
future? In my opinion, I think living in the future is people thinking too much
about the future. The things we expect will not happen at all. For example,
when I was in high school, I predicted that I would take part in the College
Entrance Examination in China. It is hard for every Chinese student. As a
result, I had to study hard every single day. I almost did not have any
weekends and holidays. They were full of school assignments and I felt my life
was dark. I had few opportunities to communicate with my parents and
grandparents. When I opened my eyes, I need to recite articles. Before I closed
my eyes, I fight with the mathematics, chemistry and physics. This period
lasted about two years and I decided to study abroad after discussing with my
parents. Studying abroad means a totally different way, compared with taking
part in the College Entrance Examination. In some ways,
it means that I waste two years and lose a large number of opportunities to
stay with and communicate with my families. However, who knows that I will
study abroad? And now, I know that I cannot predict the future and that life is
full of uncertainties. The only thing I can hold is present. There is another
simple example. When we fly a kite, we do not know when the string will break.
The only thing we can do is enjoy the moment we fly a kite.
All in all, yesterday is history. Tomorrow is
mystery. Today is a gift. We should cherish the gift that God gives us. Let us
live in the present and become the owners of our life instead of being the
slaves of our life!
