Assignment # 8: The Necklace

There is a very famous quote “Better to fail with honor than succeed “, by Fraud. No matter what possession you are standing at, it is never good to do bad things. There is a time in everybody’s life when they have to choose the right thing or the wrong thing to do. If you are cheating in every task or challenge that life throws at you than you are just proving that you are weak and don’t have any self values. Then there is lying. Well there is a quote for that to “Lying rides upon debt's back”, by Benjamin Franklin, and “A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants”, by Mark Twain.

Lying can cause death. I can still remember this story as if it was yesterday. My family owned a bird. This bird was very talented and it could talk. About every day this bird would scream “help, help the cat is going to eat me", and all of us would run out to save it, but we would find out that there is no cat. Every time that the bird did that we went running outside and there would be no cat present. Until the day came that the lying caught up to the bird. It was a sunny day in Afghanistan and there was a hungry big black cat that was walking towards the bird. So he started to shout again " help, help, the cat is going to eat me", but nobody ran out to save him. So he shouted again "help, help the cat is going to eat me", again nobody responded. There was a loud noise of the cage drop and I ran out to see, but it was too late. The bird that was with us for so long had left us. It wasn't the cat that had killed him, but the lying had caught on.

Cheating is a success that lasts about the most one day. The moment you might think that there is no other choice, but there is because choosing the wrong path is going to only last a while, but in the long run it will effect you. Cheating is just like lying. There are many people in sports that try to take the easy way out by cheating themselves and not going all out in every practice, will once the time comes for them to perform, well it won't happen the way they think it is going to happen.

So weather you are lying or cheating that moment it might feel great, but just wait a while and it will catch up to you. So weather an athlete cheats himself in practice and takes a lot of shortcuts or a bird lying it will all turn around on you and nobody will believe you or you won’t perform good.

All of this leads to self respect like I would rather fail with honor than succeed with guilt. At least I can say to myself that I did the right thing every time I got the chance. No matter what the result was going to be as long as I respect myself than I have a chance of the world respecting me too. It starts on me than others. If I am not doing the right thing than how could I expect that from strangers or even family? There is this saying look at the big picture before you make a move, well that is what I live by. It is good to know the result of each decision you make.

Assignment: 7 My Self Value : Jealousy

There is a quote "I've spent most of my life walking under that hovering cloud, jealousy, whose acid raindrops blurred my vision and burned holes in my heart.", by Astrid Alauda. When someone is jealous of another person that just means that they don't love themselves. They think that the other person is better than them, but who knows in reality from somebody else's view this person might be the best. Like many people say no matter how much a person receives they still want more. So there will always be somebody that is jealous of another person.

Have you ever heard of the story Beauty and the beast? Well it is about this beautiful princess falling in love with a horrible beast. They fall in love and live happily ever after, but in that story there is another handsome prince that every girl in the village likes. He likes the princess, but she doesn’t like him. So no matter how handsome that guy is and how ugly the beast is the beauty still fell in love with the beast because not what is in the outer, but she looked much deeper than that. She saw the true face and the feelings of the beast and noticed that he might not be beautiful in the outside, but he is a really nice person.

That beast might have not had the qualities of the young handsome prince, but he sure had a better personality. There are a lot of fights in this country over who is better than whom. The whites think that they are in the top of the chain. Everybody in this world are now wishing they were white so they can for one second live a better live than they have so far. Where has the self value of the world gone? Why don’t they believe in themselves and try to achieve things to their wildest imaginations without any barriers blocking them for it?

There is something called Believing in yourself. If you don’t believe in yourself then why should the person sitting next to you believe in you? Jealousy should be something that doesn’t even exist in this world because if you think you are better than somebody and you believe in that. Then that will come true and you will see yourself better than them. Just like the beauty and the beast there is somebody in this world that thinks you are perfect.

So believing in yourself means that other people will believe in you, and as long as you are a good human being than it doesn’t matter what is in the outside, but what is within. So the next day you are walking down the road and you spot somebody that is better than you, think about all the good qualities you have that the person just might not have. Life will go on beautifully as long as jealousy and crime go away forever.