From the moment I was born, everyone have always given me advice and told me how I should live my life. This advice came from my friends, parents, as well as other relatives. I always listen to their advice, but I do not always follow them. I believe there are things I have to experience on my own and not from others' advice. However, there has been one piece of advice I have followed through since the day it has been given to me, and I will continue to follow for the rest of my life.
From the moment I was able to comprehend what words meant, I can remember receiving one piece of advice from my parents, "try the best as you can." For example, when I got "C" on a test, my parents always told me try to do my best. They also told me if I tried my best, I would get what I wanted for the next time. I believe this is the good advice because it tells me that they trust my judgment and will respect my decisions and stand by me, even if I made the wrong ones. This helps to take pressure off from me when I am going to school because I don't have to live up to being a straight "A" student and try to accomplish goals that are unattainable for me. Instead, I just do the best that I can and know my parents will love me regardless of what grade I receive in a test.
When I go out to find a job, I'm not going to look for one that has the highest pay. I'm going to find one which makes me happy and that fits with my ability. I don't want to work with a job that I hate. If my parents had told me, "to be the best" instead of "do your best", my outlook on life might have been different. This is good because many kids have to live up to expectations that they can't attain, or do something that they don't really enjoy in order to making their parents proud.
There is only one problem with saying, "try the best as you can," is that when I knew I could have
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