When I was
young, my parents always taught me I need to be a good person in the future.
But what is good? For my understanding, good is a standard to measure a person
or a thing. Good is also a feeling of comfortable, excited, surprised or any kinds of positive senses. People deserve
to meet good people in order to be happier; people deserve good thing to make
life easier. Good can describe anything, and anything could be good. That conclusion confuses me. If anything could be good,
then what kind of the “good person” that my parents want me to be? How can I
determine if I’m a good person or not?
There are
lots of the qualities of good person: authority,
loyalty, purity, kind, friendly and so on. After I discovered this, I started
to question myself: does a good person
need to contain all of those
qualities in order to be defined as “good
person”? Obviously, the answer is not; no one is perfect. We are all human beings, and we all have
emotions. However, it is important to try our best to be good – to help others,
to bring out positive attitude, to smile, to excise, to be healthy and to enjoy
our life and value the people around us. It is true that we are not perfect, but what will happen if
everyone on the Earth try their best to improve themselves a little bit more?
That is as same as the food drive — if everyone brings one more can, we could
raise six thousand more cans and beat Safeway so that we will be the first
donor in the Bay area. Being good has
nothing to do with winning the first
place, but the fact that everyone tries to be part of the community and help
others shows how “good” is defined.
In
conclusion, good is to devote, to participate, and to try our best. Good has unlimited
definitions. It is the job for everyone
to discover the “good” in him/her. There is a little bit
of good in everyone, so try to find the little bit of good.
I like the idea of trying to be good. Not one human being in the world is perfect. However, it is important to make efforts to be a good person. Similar to your parents, my mother always tells me that I will be rewarded for what good things I did. If everyone in the world tries to act a little goodness, the world will become much better.
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ReplyDeleteI like your idea that no one is perfect and everyone has emotions. I also agree with you that being good has nothing to do with winning. The process is more important than the result. Everyone is born good. However, there are always people who are struggling and wondering on either side, good or evil. I also think that while we're seeking good we should also understand what is bad or evil.
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