BRAVE
By Therenza Prasticke
Daos Kadati
Class XB - 2015/2016
Everyone wants to be considered Brave
person although he/she is actually not
strong, brave or confident. He/she
actually does not have the courage to do things that other people do not think
are especially difficult.
Well, I am one of God’s creations
like you and as God’s creation, I have been granted with mind, conscience, and
free will.
God gave me mind
to think, feel emotions
and understand things, so that I can consider something, an idea or opinion, or
a set of ideas about a particular subject. In addition, my mind riches of
intelligence and this intelligence has reasoning power that empowers me to
learn, learn and learn to do things in intelligent way.
Why should I learn? I indeed
should learn to recognize God’s knowledge, to accept it and to work at it as
the Holy Scripture wrote “A Person’s
thoughts are like water in the deep well, but someone with insight can draw
them out (Proverb 20:5)”.
My thought can enable my mind to think about something; to think about life,
humanity and universe.
God gave me conscience to judge how moral my own actions are and makes me feel
guilty about bad things that I have done or things I feel responsible for. My conscience gives me an ability to balance
my intellect and emotion to make good decisions and judgments.
God gave me free will or ability to decide what to do
independently of any outside influence.
By those gifts, I am really sure I will become a brave
person, however, as a human, sometimes, my action, decision or judgment
produces an unwanted or unintentional result. I realize if I am not free from
what we call mistakes. I am not perfect.
Being complete and correct in
every way seems impossible for nothing
in the world is perfect. Perfect is immortal and belongs to God, whereas human
being is mortal and worldly. Becoming perfect must be difficult because I live
in a world of corrupt and sinful people (Phil 2:15b). In addition, I content
with weakness, insults, hardships, persecutions and difficulties (2Cor 12:10a).
They are the yoke and load offered by the world and so whoever takes them must
be very tired.
Must I escape from this world? No! I should encourage myself
to build me a Brave person.
Brave is a meaningful for
everyone but am I brave now? I am afraid I preserve no right to judge myself a
brave person. Somehow, I am learning to become a brave person. I must become
brave person. By bravery, I can recognize who I am and learn to build my confidence to express my
own opinions and desires strongly, so that people take notice.
How could other people take notice to my own opinions, desires
and action? How could I show that I am someone who can influence other people
through my behavior, attitude and good deed? Well, I must become BRAVE person.
I should become someone who is BRAVE. My BRAVE here stands for Brilliant, Responsive, Accomplishment,
Valuable and Excellent.
Well,
let me show you my Brave here:
Brilliant:
I
am student and I am learning to become brilliant student. What I should do is I
must encourage myself growing brilliant. I should become brilliant student who
has brilliant performance base on brilliant ideas, planning and action so that
I will have a
brilliant career ahead of me.
Responsive, Receptive and Reasonable
Responsive:
When
I am brilliant, I will positively act appropriately base on problems I encountered.
Brilliant gives me ability to maintain perspective and have an alternative
solution or the best course of action when I face with a unique situation – I
can do this because Brilliant gives me good perspective. I am able to see a
good overall picture.
I
actually, I must not only grow responsive but also Receptive and Responsible.
• Receptive:
When I am Brilliant, I will become open minded person or I
will have good willing to consider ideas and opinions that are new or different
to my own either in the form of data, creativity and new ideas. As a receptive
person, I am willing to humble myself in the position of " Beginner,"
a position that is always encouraged to want and continue to learn anything and
from anyone though I am actually genius at the field or classified as an
expert. I love learning and working together.
Reasonable:
When
I grow brilliant, I am growing reasonable. As a reasonable person, I have the
ability to see things freely without tendency to justify myself; Because I know
the tendency to justify myself often become a barrier to new perspective and
more advanced insights. I have the quality to put myself in the position of
others, seeing the bigger picture and be able to maintain perspective. It is
therefore, as a reasonable person, I usually put myself as good listeners, helper
and have a caring.
Responsive,
Receptive and Reasonable are three R quality of a Brave person. A qualified Three
R person will never sweat small stuff which deals with family life, social
issue and working problem. Instead every issue is used as source of learning
and further evaluation even though they are contrary to their logical thought.
Accomplishment
Am I
a brave person now? Again I preserve no right to judge myself a brave person;
somehow, I am developing myself. Through small stride, I will dare to strive
for an accomplishment although it is achieved after lot of work or effort.
Valuable
Having an accomplishment is a dream of every Brave person,
but an accomplishment is not the highest point or most successful part of my
life. The achieved accomplishment starts from decision to work hard and learn hard
and it will encourage me grow Valuable person.
How to become a
valuable person? I cannot live by myself. I live together with other person in
an organized way. As member of senior high school students, I will become good friend and good
sister or brother. I am ready to ensure the new students feel at home and fell
comfortable in learning from the first day they set foot at this school.
I will become first friend
for new students and if there is a task that would be asked to the teacher but
they are shame or difficult to communicate, then I can help. My juniors are
welcomed to ask about anything, ranging from difficulties in learning or doing
the coursework. I also can comfort and encourage the juniors who miss the
family in the country.
I should be
brave to work together with other members for a particular purpose. I must dare
to make myself helpful or willing to do either simple or difficult and
dangerous things that other person cannot be able to.
Becoming valuable is not only having a strong feeling of
sympathy and sadness for the suffering or bad luck of others and a wish to help
them. But I will share my food when you are hungry, I will always remind you to
study when you prefer more playing, chatting and talking about things that are
not very important.
Excellent
A Brave person has to dare to show himself not only valuable
but also excellent. Excellent for brave person is not becoming someone in an
important official position or you can be able to do big things. According to Nelusigwe Mbingu as
quoted by http://www.quora.com/Nelusigwe-Mbingu,
said that an excellent person is you who deal with small things. Things like
putting unwanted items back where you found them when doing grocery and putting
candy wrappers in a garbage can instead of throwing them on the floor.
Excellent people practice integrity at all times
For me, excellent person is one who has responsible to make herself
good students. We should come to school on time, make our class clean and neat,
do assignment on time and help and care for others. We know why we are sent
here. We are here not only to learn to become clever academically but also we
learn to become clever socially. You are excellent if you are more
patient, kinder, more respectful, braver, more industrious, put more effort in
studies and Smile often
Excellent starts from
simple things, starting from knowing yourself, your needs and surrounding and
then strives through great stride for bigger and even complicated things. Brian
Tracy wrote in brainyquote.com that
that “You can become an even more
excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself
and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.”
