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My First StoryRunchana Wichian
“Nothing ventured, nothing gained”
  • Many people are soafraid of losses and failures that trying new things and risking for somethingis not what they dare to do. As a result, they are kept away from success thatis waiting for them by a wall named “fear”. Fear can happen in any part of ourminds. We humans can be afraid of anything around us, and the worst thing isthat we are afraid of our own mind and we let that fear decide our future. Wecan’t escape the truth because we will all have to face it eventually. Thetruth is that we can’t travel back to the past, the truth is that what is leftfor us is the present and the future.

    Thereare so many times in our lives that we encounter difficulties and failures.Even in one’s life such as mine, when I once got a worthy opportunity to govisit America as an exchange student. At first, when I knew I was going there,I was really cheerful and super excited and everything ahead seemed to befilled with happiness and excitement. However, after I had spent time there fora while, my feelings started to turn out alternatively as I had to stay aloneand far away from home. Realizing that I had made a wrong decision was one ofthe feelings that I had at that time. Loneliness started to creep into myfeelings day by day. Due to my personality that I was shy, saying hi and makingfriends with people with different cultures was quite a tough thing for me todo. But, who knows, things may turn out to be completely different from whatthey might seem to be at the first time. As my time there went by, thosefeeling had somehow become one of the good things in my life, as well as mymemories. Trying to get over the fear, step out of the comfort zone, and moveforward had made someone become a new person with patience, daring to think andmake a decision by his own and try to do new things, and confidence. Mistakesthat I made while I was living there, no matter how big those mistakes were,were normal things to me. Because, if you take a deep look at them, what youget from them are experiences.

              I would like to use thisopportunity to take you into my exchange student experiences to show that ifyou make a mistake and you continue to move forward and learn from it, what youget at the end might be more than you can imagine. My decision to be anexchange student in America can be said to change my entire life totally.Basically saying, It had somehow melted my old personalities and given me newones, from a boy who was shy and lacked patience and survival skills to a newboy who is out-going, patient, and independent.

              Before I went there, I had been a veryshy person. Starting a conversation with someone that I didn’t know was adifficult thing for me. If someone didn’t come to talk to me first, then Iwouldn’t talk to him either. This problem had made me want to change myself. SoI decided and risked to go and live alone in America as I thought that wouldchange me. Living with no friends and no one coming to talk to you first, whichis how it is in America, had made me try to step out of my comfort zone andtalk to other people. My life there started to be difficult and dishearten atfirst as I was still shy. I was discouraged and homesick, and felt that I hadmade a big mistake going there. But, instead of giving up and going back toThailand, I decided to continue staying there and move forward. Things startedto get better after I’d promised to myself that I would get through no matterhow tough my life could get. As my life there went by, I started to be a newperson who’s not shy anymore. I felt lucky that I didn’t go back home. Thefeeling that going to America was a mistake had faded away, alternatively, ithad become one of the best decisions I’ve ever made in my life.

              Going to America had also made me morepatient and independent. It can be said that I had been raised like eggs in thestones before my parents realized that they had done the wrong thing.Absolutely, they wanted me to go to America so that I would be changed. Likebeing shy, having to do almost everything by myself had given me difficulties,and made me want to go back home of course. This gave me the exactly samefeeling as being shy did. I felt tired and overwhelmed. There were quite sometimes that I cried wanting to go back home and kept saying to myself “Why was Iso stupid that I thought it would be a good idea to come here?”. But I ended uptolerating and continuing staying. Things turned out pretty well, andeventually, I had become a new person who has more patience and is independent.

               Fear is just merely a thing that you canchoose whether it will block you from success and experiences that await youahead or not. You can choose to let it be a wall that keeps you away from manyachievements and other things that might be beyond your imagination or try toovercome it and dare to risk for something greater. Like myself, instead ofgiving up to the dishearten feelings, difficulties and the fear that I wouldn’tbe able to get over those things, I decided to move forward. And as a result,things I gained from that were simply worthy and great. Daring to think,risking in new things, learning from your mistakes, and getting over your fear,these things are what will lead you to the goals and success that await you. Sonow I’m urging you to move forward together with me. It’s time to put fearaside and move forward.                                                
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