If you want something, earn it yourself.

Today my mom bought me a book called the 1001 Things Every College Student Needs to Know. When I was flipping through the pages, I saw this, "you need to know your parents are destroying their 401(k)s to send you to school. If you come home whining about how hard college is and how bad you need a vacation, they will just look at you and turn the sound up on Law and Order." Then she was telling me about someone we know is whining about how everyone but her has a good ___. (I won't say what that is, just in case the person is here). Well, let's say it's a computer.

She was complaining how bad her life is because she has no respect from others and people look down at her. She thinks is because her "computer" is so much worse than the other people's. Then I thought to myself, her "computer" is brand new and her parents probably had to work so hard for that, how could she complain about such thing? I also thought to myself, maybe she should realize that her friend's are not adoring her because of her personality, not her properties. People won't think she's awesome because she owns a macbook instead of a dell laptop. On the other hand, if she had earn her own money and bought the dell laptop herself, then she deserves some respect for her achievement. If she had appreciate her parents for the dell laptop and make productive use of it, then she deserves some respect for her good personality. If I can, I really want her to know, if you want respect, earn it, not buying it. If you want a luxury object, then buy it with your own money, not your parent's. Too bad I can't find a way to tell her without her getting mad, so I hope one day she'll stop by and let this post change her.

"When you're a beautiful person on the inside, there is nothing in the world that can change that about you. Jealousy is the result of one's lack of self-confidence, self-worth, and self-acceptance.”  -- Sasha Azevedo


"There are no short cuts to any place worth going." -- Beverly Sills

Appreciate what you have.

Appreciating is a hard thing to do. Before you realize anything is gone, is gone. So why not enjoy them while you have the time? Enjoy having your mom nagging at you, because before you know it, she's going to be old. Then, like me, you'll regret all the time you wasted playing computer games instead of shopping with her, too busy thinking about your miseries than appreciating the shelter, food, and love she provided you, and many more. How ever busy you are, take a break, and take time to spend time with your important ones and start appreciating. Because that's the only way to make you a happier person. And for the ones who read my post earlier, keep up with your goal! Hopefully I'll keep up with mine also, so together let's become better people, and live better.

“We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.”

- Frederick Keonig

Have a start.

This is my first post. I was inspired by a blog earlier. Now I'm here to start a blog to hopefully inspire my readers and help them to have self-improvement. Anything has a start, I've read so many philosophies in my life, and it's so hard to keep up all of them. I have a problem with studying hard and I know I have to, but I never tend to start. I continue spend my time working, seeing my love one, and probably waste the rest. It's hard to start, but I know for sure next semester I'll start studying hard because I know it's necessary. But really, if I can start a blog and hope that people would read and benefit from it, then why can't you start doing whatever you really need to do? Have a goal, start treating your family better, get your girlfriend back, study harder, work more, start on something that's productive and necessary. So I just started two new things, blog and study, to become better. How about you.

"You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."

Zig Ziglar