History forms the basis for the future. Looking back, were there any life changing experiences that shape who you are today? What makes you who you are today?

I am what I am now, because I learn from my mistake and gain more experiences. The environment that I live in is something that makes me become myself. My family believe in independent learning.

They are like parents of the eagle leaving their child after they born. Those baby eagles will learn themselves. The parents don’t spoon-feed them. They are left their own to survive. Of course my parents care and love me, they teach me from experiences.

When I play and fall, they ask me “Do you feel the pain?” Then they will hit my injured part and say “Do you feel the pain, again?” This is the way they educate me, learning from my mistakes. They want me to learn that I shouldn’t play as I walk, because I will fall. The pain will be there to remind me of this point and not too make the same mistake again. Sometimes the scars are a reminder to me. I don’t blame them, for these it actually builds my foundation to think independently.

I believe that self-learning is a shorter way to learn. Because it push you down to the deepest end, tell you to learn from your mistake and then want to come up on your own. Is like where you fall from, you climb up yourself.

I am grateful that I am the way I am now. I thinking further than others and push over my limits. I am trained to think twice and think of the consequences. I am more mature than my real age. I observe wisely and understand well. I will remember the tiny things that normal people will forget. I understand the reality more than others. I talk like an adult and that’s me. I don’t need to change myself, I grow up in this environment and this is what I am.

In time, I might change. I think that experiences and time is what I need. I need experiences to gain more knowledge and I need time to go over my limits.

Someone asks me a question before, “What are you, more than your name?” I am someone that is wants to be useful to the society and I want to live a meaningful live. I want to be more than what I can do, push my limits and trying my best. Now I am on the way of learning, is good to make mistake. Mistake reminds me of my mother, where I make sure I don’t repeat the same mistake again. I like who I am, I am being who I am and who I want to be.