One of My Important Choices

  We would make many decisions in our life. Some were forced by your family because they want you to live a better life. But we can't be always sure because we have different personalities; perhaps I have that strong determination to persevere and choose the other one that our families think it's too hard for me. I would enjoy and live with passion because it's my choice.
  I remember when I struggled to choose which college I should apply. There were two schools that I hesitated. One is Soochow university, another is in Hsinchu which my mom used to study there. It's easily to guess and know that my mom preferred me to study there instead of Soochow university. But I chose to study in Soochow university, and there are two reasons. One is because this school is in Taipei, the capital of this country. I wanted to see this world more, the bright side and the dark side of people. I believed to learn something really fast would be to throw you into a total strange environment where the life style is really fast. If you don't work harder, you would be easily replaced by another one. And that will urge me, because I know I am a passive girl.
  The other reason is to prove I was wrong. I used to hear my friends saying how arrogant and selfish people who live in Taipei are. They are arrogant because our government put all their main constructions in Taipei, and that makes people who live in Taipei to think they are better than those in the south because they have a better quality in life. And they are selfish because they care their benefits more and would harm other people to get what they want. At first I was a little bit scared, because I am not that smart. And I hate being fooled. It needed lots of courage for me to leave the sweet home to a total strange place which many people warned me before. But as I got here, I fell in love with this city and people here. There are many protesting activities and here you can hear many different brave people expressing their feelings. You would learn to dare to be yourself because here nobody appreciates people with no personalities. This city is a city that dares to ask for freedom and democracy. And I have met many nice people who were born in Taipei. They overthrow the stereotype and the average impressions. They are hardworking people who move forward to their dreams. They aren't afraid to chase what they want.
  Actually there are many other reasons, but these two are the main reasons. I don't regret what I chose. Even though sometimes when I looked back to some other choices, I would wish that the time can just go back. But I choose to look forward because these choices are made of who I am today. All you can do is to change your mood and to choose more carefully next time. Most of all, don't be afraid to choose what you want, let your instinct leads you, don't fight it.

Kinds of Friends

In our growing process, we meet many people, and we make friends. Often we make friends from our schools. And why making friends is so important? Because we can share same values, and we can learn different experiences from each other’s various backgrounds. We help each other to ease the sadness, and make the sweet things sweeter.

In my life, I split my friends into three categories. “Very close friends”, who can tell and share the secrets; “good friends”, friends that we share some information and know each other but not closer than the very close friends. Finally, “just friends”, friends whom I only say hi and know a little about them.

I am very lucky to have many very close friends. And I met them in different levels of my life. Some I have known for years, some I just met at college. And no matter how long I have known these people, the reason why they become my very close friends are because they would stay with me and listen to me whenever I am sad or happy. They would listen to my problems and give me some good advices. And they would share with me their daily details, secrets, and diverse views. I learn many things through our chatting. And we have the strong feelings that we trust each other. Often we don’t need to say much and we know each other’s thoughts. They make me feel safe and happy.

If the very close friends are ten percent of my category, then good friends would be fifty percent. These friends are mostly nice to talk to, and we would also share some problems from our life, but we wouldn’t tell each other everything, mostly we just tell the happy things to make the atmosphere better. We still have our secrets. And we usually go out with a group of friend. We are just not as close as the very close friends.

Finally, just friends. I’m glad I only have a few of them. Usually people in this category are boys. I don’t know why I have this tendency, I usually get nervous when I talk to guys. In this section, we usually just say hi, have some jokes and talk a little bit about daily lives. It’s just a regular asking to update each other’s new information. There are some shallow aspects that we only want to maintain this awkward “relationship”. But there are some exceptions that I still have some good male friends.

Although there are classification in friends, but not all are so accurate. Nobody can be put into a category. Everyone is unique, and it’s because there are many special, different qualities that these friends are precious. My life’s rich part is part from my friends. And I will cherish them as my most cherished treasure.