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INSPIRATIONAL
TALES
Looking Back & Moving Forward
An article by : LEUNG , Chun , Joy
It is not always easy to recall the
memories locked into the corners of
one’s brain. This is what comes to my pushing myself to challenge my limits
and face my fears by joining various
extra-curricular
activities;
pushing
mind when I tried to look back to review
my personal experiences, at the end of
the decade.
It is not easy to imagine that I have myself to be a nicer person in every way;
struggling to accept unsatisfactory
academic performance; struggling to
tolerate betrayal and isolation and
been through the toughest decade of my
life—though I have made it—not by
imagination but by experiencing all
those joys and tears for real. At the end
of the day—I mean decade—it is finally
reaching an end! This feels like the lift of
the heaviest burden ever, and I am
happy to see that I have eventually
brought a smiley face with me much
more often these days.
12 to 22, have probably been the distrust, struggling to survive the
collapse of my world—my friendships,
my love, my achievements, my dreams
and my religion; keeping failing to
regain my concentration on my studies
when unpleasant events kept occurring,
and holding on to trying; entering a
University that made me disappointed
with myself again; struggling to trust
other people and keeping failing;
learning to build trusting relationships
rockiest years of my life that demanded
me to learn, to adapt, to change and to
be humble—and confident at the same
time. I have undergone some of the most
challenging trials of my life journey:
adapting to survive in a secondary school with trustworthy persons; learning
to accept imperfections—not only of
reality but also of myself; learning to
open up and to communicate; learning
to love. During the entire process of
learning—to deal with the constant
that I felt bad about being admitted to: mismatch between expectations and
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