People told you that the most comfortable place is your home. then, what are you gonna do when you miss your home but your home is not the same anymore. There's no roof, either door or window anymore. One part has been missing that make your house incomplete, make you feel cold by the wind or rain coming inside. The worst, there is no way to make your home better. No, i don't mean there's no way instead you just couldn't find where is that way. Well, i know you must be sad because of that, moreover when you see another pretty home with the beauty garden in front of their home. I know also you wanna have a visit and take a look. Thought that you'll be happy after the visit, unfortunately you just came up with the jealousy feelings and question why don't i have a pretty home like them too? However, there's nothing you can do with it. You will just feel like there's no way to come home, come to your old home. Well, here i have something to tell... No matter how bad your home is right now. Your home is still your home. Just think that there are people who even have no home. So, your condition is still better because you still have it. Just remember that you still have a chance to build your own home, make it prettier than your old home but to make it, you'll need so much effort. So, just be ready and get prepared yourself.
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I keep questioning why do i face so many problems right in the past few weeks before Final Exam. Yeah, FINAL EXAM. I can't tell you about the problems but they really take my time and my feelings also. I've planned to be prepared for my 1st semester in university since in the last summer. It was okay in the first 7 weeks of semester that i even get my midterm exams very well. I don't know why, but since january everything seems so messy. there's some complicated problem that's quite hard to solve. My friend once told me that i can't keep the problem by myself in order to find the solution sooner or even easier. However, i always keep doing that for a reason. I know people have their own problem so i wont add more. It's better to keep it by my self even i'll be lonely stress rather than put people to be stress also. I'll just ask for help when i know that i can't. I don't know sometimes i feel stupid of doing this but what can i do sometimes? I don't wanna add any pain for people and i don't wanna people feel pity for me. Am i wrong? I have heard people talking about 'be yourself' recently. Some girls said that she doesn't want to be slim or consider of losing weight is not important for her because she already has chubby posture since she was kid and she thinks that if she changes, it means she doesn't be herself anymore. Moreover, there is a saying also from another girl that she limits herself not to become a friendly girl because she considers herself as a less care person in ever since. Well, people have the rights to choose the way they life. However, i have another perception about 'be yourself' in this term. For me, understanding of 'Be yourself' should be more open-minded than that. Be yourself means a motivational word that lead me to follow what my trully heart says in order to make me become a better person and the best version of myself. As a person who is given a chance to choose in life, i am allowed to choose a right thing to improve my capacity. For instance, when i get inspired after knowing a smart or cool person that i want to be. The desire to be like them doesn't mean we are not being ourself because the change we want to make is came from our willingness. Since it comes from our own willingness and without force, changing ourself to be a better person show enough that be yourself means be a best version of yourself. Well, this is my thought about 'Be yourself'. Feels like, working in group is so stressing nowadays. It's just destroying the whole plan when you have some member group that don't work in harmony. I expect each of us as the group member to be more initiative, came up with the idea and get done everything as soon as possible. Unfortunately, as far it has been going on, it was okay in the first week but being lame in past few weeks. Somebody just being confuse about what should do while others just have no time but fortunately can get done the task given. Well, the good news is we are all still survive until the last day for the presentation. Sometimes, having a nice roommate is a source of my happiness. It's a pleasure for me to be the lucky one. Yeah finally after Khairunnisa (my ex indonesian roommate) last year, i have one turkish roommate that we are really affable. Her name is Hatice, she is the cutest of my turkish friend ever. She has smiling face which makes her still being cute even when she is angry. No... Actually I've never seen her angry instead just being silent and cry. Well, I learn from turkish girl especially her that affection should be expressed. I can say, people here are so expressive. When they love somebody, they will show it publicly like hugging, kissing and such a culture they always ask "how are you?" even though we just met few hours before. The things that rarely happen as a culture in my country. No, i can't generalize though... Haha I don't know maybe it's only happened in my family that we rarely say those kind of things. I can't even remember when is the last time my dad hugs and say that he loves me. Moreover, I've been told since i was kid that we don't need words to show how much we love somebody which make me used to it also . So it's kinda astonishing when i feel a warm love from somebody else which is not my family member either. Like what Hatice has done for me in this past few months. She hugged me when i was angry at her and say "wita don't be angry at me... i love you" whooop! My angry was decreased suddenly by her words. And since that day, i've been trying to express my feelings more especially for people in my surroundings. And now, i consider that love should be express through words also. Thanks for being a nice roommate Hatice ! :) seni çok seviyorum. Finally, my first draft of the 2nd essay for Academic Reading is done. Aaaaaagh seriously those really takes time for me to get this essay done. I started with reading some articles for doing some research first,but then i'm easily feel bored, decided to surfing on internet, checking some of my social media notifications, talking with my love one through message or phone as a mood booster then finally end up with the idea that came up with but suddenly could not write any of them yet instead fall asleep for a while. Honestly, i have started to write this essay this afternoon but i just could start it at 9 pm. lol However, no matter how many hours that i take for writing this essay, i feel free because at least one of my tasks is finished. hopefully i will have a maximum grade for this essay remember that i put so much effort to write this essay. The obstacles to One’s Education in the way towards free thinking and creativity and the possible ways to overcome these.
Dead Poet’s Society, Mona Lisa Smile and Three Idiots are sort of inspirational movie which nearly taught about how the education should be applied better. Refer to the aim of education quoted by Jean Piaget, he said the principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done; men and women who are creative, inventive and discoverers, who can be critical and verify, and not accept, everything they are offered. Through the message from Jean Piaget about education, those movie are considerably to be well enough in encapsulating the main idea of education’s goal. While people tend to think poverty is one of the insurmountable obstacle to education, actually that belief could use some pushback due to the fact that there is a higher major obstacle towards free thinking and creativity which is highly considered to be cleared up as soon as possible; the mental blocking by teacher in education system. A mental block is either a repression of painful thoughts, or an inability to continue a train of thought (wikipedia, 2008). It can happen to anybody at anytime especially students who are given a duty to learn so much things. As a human, student is a work in a progress of a trantitional being. Studies confirmed that humans are still striving to rise above the animal origins dominated by physical needs and vital urges to become fully human being characterized by civilized behaviour, cultured emotions and a rational mentality. Based on that learning, every students as a human should be a pioneer of the transition representing one stage in the emergence of modern person from a socially dependent member of the collective to be mentally awakened and physically developed individuality. To be in this stage, free thinking and creativity of students is crucially needed through the process. Free and creative thinking is defined as a process boils down to change the perspective in seeing a thing differently than we currently do (Brian Clark, CEO of Copyblogger Media). Actually, students are acknowledged to already capable of free and creative thinking at all times. However, there is an imaginary mental blocks that undirectly formed by the teacher while making the circumstance of studying. Teacher who is considered to be the window of knowledge, playing an important role in educationing students, as a person who is mastering everything in their dicipline field and the subject-matter-expert, they still need to give some spaces for student in learning. Moreover, teacher should not just be a teacher but also a mentor who educate the students. Besides manner that should be considered just as important as other subjects, teacher should also prompt students to explore their potential for change rather than dutifully accepting the tradional viewes of an institution where education is viewed merely as a stopgap before working or marriage. If we refer to those three inspirational movie, we will find some similarities about the condition of the education which is briefly presented. In Dead Poet’s Society, the students are conservatively told about the meaning of a poem as if it measureable as a math problem due to the information written in the book. While in the other movie, Mona Lisa Smile, the students were adapted in memorizing every information inside the books which made Katherine (the teacher) had the desire to provoke the students to think for themselves and arrive at their own of judgements of things, similarly like Adrianne Rich has stated in her commencement that education should be claimed not received. The way their study which is formed by the education system and teacher at that time is like an imaginary mental blocks in learning for student. Students are often told to think out of the box as an advice to think freely and creatively. However, it is already a fault to think that way because creating an imaginary boxes is simply an obstacle towards free thinking and creativity itself. Albert Einstein once has quoted that creativity is intelligence having fun and education is not the learning of facts but the training of the mind to think. This is all said that teacher has an influential role in forming how the education should be applied to students. Brian Clark on his article has summarized 10 mental blocks to creative thinking that every teacher and student should know in order to overcome towards this educational problem. One of the crucial barrier is students are often faced with a task for finding the correct answer to particular question or problem. This learning process that has been done for many years has formed the way of students thinking into white and black perspective which can lead them to be a prejudice person because the mindset is formed to see if something is not right, there is no other word instead wrong. Clark also stated that it is not needed to avoid ambiguity in learning because in real life issues is like that also. There are always more than one “correct” answer and the second one we come up with might be better than the first. Carpe Diem; Seize The Days; Make Our Lives Extraordinary are some main message given from Dead Poet’s Society. Become a free thinker means having a bravery of taking risk of being wrong. Students are often afraid of being wrong because they considered it as a bad and risky thing. However, rather than avoid students to go down the road to find out the dead end, teacher should free the students to make mistake in the first place because the best lesson is learning from the mistake as an experience. Last but not least, there is a thing that should be collaborated by both teacher and student for overcoming to the obstacle toward education; supporting the mindset of students that they are the free and creatie thinker. Here the teacher should take part as a motivator to awaken the students that they are inherently creative. Creating the limits with the way students think that they are not creative is definitely not an appropriate way of stripping away all of the dellusions. So, the student should stop to think they are not the free thinker and creative and in the other hand teacher should support them in any ways that they could do. |
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