Passion: Stepping Up

Chibi Vang
Brenda Scott Middle School

They said that we were born to live, but why do we all die at the end? If not born to live, then born to make a difference. You were born to be a role model. You were born to be given a chance to show yourself, to be remembered, to be just known for you. Why do we all have a limited time to live? Why can’t we just live forever? Maybe because it is boring being the same person over and over? Maybe it’s not that.. Maybe, if you believe in reincarnation, we are always being born again so that we can experience other people’s lives. But most of us don’t even remember our past lives from before. Why’s that? Is it because you couldn’t bear the harsh memories that you may have had in your past life? Is it embarrassing knowing what you did back then? Or is it because you just want to completely erase some of the people that you once hung out with and start anew?

Humans are supposed to be one of the smartest species out there, but I think that we are the ones who struggle most and are slowest when it comes to make a life decision. We can be stubborn. We can break down easily and we make a lot of mistakes. But some of us don’t even know that mistakes are the greatest lessons of our lives. Even if we’re not perfect, we learn from mistakes that help us to become better people.

Many of my peers are not that motivated as they should be in their own community. I’m not sure if it’s out of fear, risky, or just laziness. They rather wait for something bad to happen to them, and then they’ll have the motivation to step up. Why do we have to wait to change the world? To change yourself? We need to start caring now. When we care, we’re contributing into our community, to make it better environment for the new generations to come. Same thing goes with peer pressure. Why be like everybody else, when you can more fun being yourself?
Why start now? Because your opinion counts. The faster your message gets around, the more support you’ll get and the less guilt or stress you’ll feel in yourself. If you already waited too long, it’s not too late to start over. It’s just that most of us find it hard to move on. They can’t forget. Of course you can’t forget about what you did, but then you can forgive yourself. You can forgive yourself and that’ll take off some of the burdens on you. That’ll make it less heavy on you and give you a little ease to start over. You can start all over every day.

Stop waiting and do something now. I finally realized what this sentence meant after joining NSO YIP. It opened many new options for me to see. It let me know that I’m not too young to change the world and told me to stop making excuses and just do what I wanted already before it’s too late.

Start off small. End big. Help out your community. Make a difference. Learn from your mistakes. Be yourself. That’s my passion and I’m so going to live with it because helping out not just the community, but everything else, makes me feel accomplished. It also makes me feel very proud and nice. I don’t know but I always wanted to be like the Ultimate Superhero around the world! I like smiles and to get people to smile, I crack a joke, help out, compliment, and just go all out crazy! I don’t care if people have a gap in their teeth or if their teeth are yellow! I also like laughs too because it’s the only sound that all humans make, no matter what culture or language, when something’s funny, you hear HAHAHA! =)