BRAVE

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.”