送交者: 音音 于 July 16, 2004 19:52:46:
回答: 再献呆呆阿姨 由 音音 于 July 16, 2004 19:44:16:
The Importance of Being Confident in Yourself
Do you like yourself? To come up with an answer to this question in matter of seconds would be a difficult thing to do. As a human being, each of us has both strengths and weaknesses. However, we all have the tendency to perceive the bad in ourselves more than we perceive the good，and that will definitely result in a very negative self-image. Therefore, in the speech I deliver today, I’d like to remind all of you how important it is to have confidence in yourself for being who you are. And once you learn to love yourself, you will also enable yourself to look at other people through a clearer window of your mind. You will also begin to love other people.
I understand that we are all going through a period of time in our life that is defined by depressions rather than by prosperity, harsh reality rather than by sweet dreams, and turbulence rather than by calmness. We are all wandering on what is supposed to be the pathway toward our future, which is not so even. Being teenagers, it is definitely not an easy thing. You can easily lose confidence, when you do badly on a test, have conflicts with friends, or lose the support from your family. And whenever you lose confidence, you feel as if you are down in a black hole with an exit nowhere to be seen. “Why can’t I do something that others can?” you wonder. You can’t help the worst feeling of all, jealousy, creeping into you. In midst of a personal depression, you become jealous of your friends’ successes when you know you are supposed be celebrating them. Whenever you lose confidence, there would be all sorts of troubles to follow like a domino effect.
Then, how can you learn to keep the confidence in yourself? In my opinion, the most important thing to do is to continuously take a positive attitude toward life. Just start this by doing the things you can around you. Just start participating in class when others people are silent, saying hi to friends when seeing them on the streets, or helping out strangers when they are in need. As soon as you start doing so, you will realize you now have a fulfilled life. And as soon as you feel your life is fun, believe it or not, you will naturally begin to like yourself.
Like I said at the beginning, everyone has strengths and weaknesses. And they all appear in different aspects. Some people are good at studying, and others are good at sports. Some can make a lot of friends, while others can treat their only best friend really well. However, you might whine, “that person is such a genius and good at everything, but me, I can’t do anything well. That’s not fair!”, which is something we’ve all said at least once in our life. But this is not true. Well, it is true that certain people are born with a mathematical talent or blessed with a beautiful singing voice. But that gifted mathematician, like John Nash in the movie A Beautiful Mind, might have serious personality problems, and that famous pop singer, like Jessica Simpson, might have a unbelievably low IQ. By now I hope you get the point I’m trying to make. Yes, the point I’m trying to make is that I truly believe everyone is born with an equal number of strengths and weaknesses. So please take some time and look into yourself. Know what your strengths are. Once you know your strengths, look at your friends around you. You’ll genuinely see the good in them too. As long as you have confidence in yourself, you will not become jealous by seeing their strengths. And you will like your friends, you will. I believe if everyone could feel this way, the world would be a much more beautiful and peaceful place to live in.
“Do you like yourself?”
If someone asked you this question next time, I hope you’ would answer with a confident voice,
“Yes, I do.”