Writing instruments and characteristic

“Writing with an ink pen mean I already grown up” this word I said when I was still a kindergarten student and holding my headmaster red pen and show to everyone in my class. My kindergarten name is a joke for me in my life. Every time when I said my kindergarten name no one is really believe me. Ya, I am student of Convent kindergarten. The headmasters name me as Donald Lim because I am the most talkative student in the class with thousands of question a day. I need to thank to the headmaster cause her giving me an opportunity to study in the most difficulty financial situation of my parent. RM5 per year is the cheapest kindergarten fees I never heard in my life and it is especially for me little Donald. I never know I was treated that special until a day one of my classmate said it loudly in the class. “My mom said Donald don’t have father so his behavior will be very bad everyone don’t play with him”. At the moment I only release father is a must in a family for a child. From that day on I start to keep quite in the class I not dare to make any single sound, I scare that people will notice me and mention this topic again. One day headmaster calls me to her room and we have a short talk. I forgot the conversation content. But the only word I remember is “You are special to me not because you are single parent child, you are special to me because you have a strong heart.”

Today I am a person who writing with an ink pen or even a marker in front of hundred over people. But am I a strong heart as what the headmaster said, I not so sure. But something I am sure is writing with an ink pen does mean I am a man or grown up. But it means we start to be stubborn to some method. When we are a child we write with a pencil, everything we write wrong we do correction and make sure we won’t repeat the same mistake again. But when we growing up we start to using pen everything we wrote start to be so firm, if anything wrong we start to know how to cover it up with the liquid corrector. When we at the high school, we no longer can use liquid corrector but we start to use a line to cut the mistake we have done. When coming to the university and the society we start using computer and printing. We start to question and argue about the mistake we have made.

Take 100% Responsibility for yourself

We must take our personal responsibility cause when we cannot change the situations, the seasons, or the wind, but we can change ourselves. There is a wonderful story told about a man who is out walking on night and comes upon another man down on his knees looking for something under the street lamp. The passerby inquires as to what the other man is looking for. He answers that he is looking for his lost key. The passerby offers to help and get down on his knees and helps him search for the key. After an hour fruitless searching, he says, “We’re looked everywhere for it and we haven’t found it. Are you sure that you lost it here?” The other reply, “No, I lost it in my house, but there is lighter out here under the streetlamp.” It is time to stop looking outside yourself for the answer.

There is only one person responsible for the quality of the life you live. That person is you. In fact, most of us have been conditioned to blame something outside of ourselves for the parts of our life we don’t like. We blame our parent, our bosses, our friend, the media, our client, our spouse, the weather, the economy, our astrological chart, our lack of money or anyone or anything we have pin the blame on. We never want to look where the real problem is-ourselves.