Pathway to happiness
Three things that have changed my life forever. One: Loving myself Two: Hope Three: Positive thinking
Three things that have changed my life forever. One: Loving myself Two: Hope Three: Positive thinking
School, classrooms, textbooks - all are produced for education. But the fact is, they cannot provide us the real education. Rather, what we really learn is from outside of textbooks. We learn from our inside, our life, our family,the outside world, even storybooks and movies. I can give you some first hand example about it. Do you know how I learned communicative English? My textbooks and teachers weren’t able to teach me communicative English. I did well in the examination, but I didn’t have the courage to read and write English. My fear about English language started to decrease by sending...
I was the kind of person who was dependent on others for even trivial issues. I always walked towards my path depending on others, and always blindly listened to other's opinions. Other's opinions and criticism affected me very much. I cared about what others said too much and my thoughts were automatically surpassed. Not only that. I was dependent on others for being loved, being helped, being consoled, being cared. I didn’t know how powerful I was. I didn’t know about the light inside of me. I thought that I always needed other people to guide me. I didn’t know my own existence can make a...
Sometimes I think that our generation is so complicated compared with previous generations. Especially the children and teens. What a complicated life we lead! I don’t know about other countries, but in my country, the previous generation had a less complicated childhood. In my eyes. Often my parents tell me the stories of their childhood. The children of that generation climbed trees, played a lot of outdoor games which are unfamiliar for us now, laughed with their cousins and friends, fought with others, got wet in rain, covered with mud and sand, stole fruits and often got punished by their...
My dear expecting future days and myself I don't know that how do I start? But first I want to give a big thanks to my god for giving me a beautiful life. Now, first is that what is my expecting future? So my answer is that I want to do something different on this world. I know that it is very hard to do. But I want to do something different because I want to prove myself that I can do anything best to those people who think that I cann't do anything. As a girl it is very unexpected to me that a number of people of our society think that boys are better than girls. But now the world is...
When I first heard about LOVE MYSELF, I also learned that it supports #ENDViolence campaign, I wondered why. How loving myself can end violence? I realized it later. After experiencing it from deep inside. The campaign actually tells about two concepts. First one : "Love yourself". Second one : " Share love". One is related to another. How? If you start loving yourself, you will learn to accept your flaws, your mistakes. You will learn to be kind. You will learn to forgive yourself. And when you will practice it everyday, you will be able to accept other's mistakes too. You will be able to be...
"I am a worthless person. " "I am ugly. " "I am a stupid one." "I am good for nothing. " "I am not worthy of love. " "Who am I? I am nobody." "I am always wrong." Sometimes, people around us make us feel like this, by their words or actions. Sometimes they pointlessly criticize us and break us. Now think, when someone criticizes you destructively, what do you do? If you tell yourself these words, then are you different than the ones who hurt you? Aren't you hurting you even more? Instead, you shouldn’t give up on yourself. You should try to console yourself, give yourself a warm hug and tell,...
Everyone has a wish to be a star. Or someone special. When you see someone special in your eyes, in your subconscious mind you wish to be someone special too, don't you? But you know what.... You are already a star. You can be a star that can enlighten everyone around you, and even the world. How?
To be honest, I didn’t have a plan to join a community or publish my writings. I didn’t know how it would be like to join a group of people who share same thoughts. I didn’t join Voices of Youth with a plan. But it has changed my life. Young people who write in Voices of Youth have interest in different topics. Different issues. And they are all different. It’s like a school where everyone works on their own subject. But we do it passionately. And that's why we can make a difference. Because in this place whatever we do comes from the bottom of our hearts. I never knew that writing was my...
I believe in love. We are told to be selfless, we are told that we should be there for each other, help and care for them. It’s possible with love. When we love someone, we can be selfless without making any effort to do so. We can genuinely care for someone only if we love them. We become selfish and self-centred when love is absent. A mother risks her entire life when giving birth to her child. Why does she do that? She does because she loves her unborn child. She loves her child even when it isn’t born. Parents raise their child with unconditional love. We are told to accept each other with...
So often I complain and whine about our education system. You may think, why do I do it? I am going to college despite being a differently able person, so I should be thankful and I shouldn’t be whiny. If that is what you think, you are so wrong. You may think, when the world is facing a real learning crisis and a large number of children cannot even go to school, why am I still concerned about the wrongs of today’s education system? Because that is what I am facing myself and I think that is also a real crisis. When so many others are fighting to make education accessible and inclusive, I am...
Yes, and this is what happened in my situation. At some point during the first year of high school, I discovered poetry. I have read poems before, mostly in English Literature classes during secondary school, and I knew the names of a handful of renowned poets. However, I was never explicitly interested in the field and never even remotely showed any interest towards reading poems in my leisure time. That changed once I became a high schooler; the predominant subject that prevailed my mind was poetry. If I was not doing five hours' worth of intense Google research on some poet’s biography, I...
Education is a powerful tool and the antidote to a flourishing nation. Education has empowered minds and taken individuals to beautiful destinations. Each and every individual, regardless of beliefs, socio-economic status, race, sex, gender etc. is worthy of the gift of Knowledge, for which the currency is Education. This world has witnessed a delightful rise in the literacy rate and the enrollment of children and young people in school and higher education. This change was much desired and very welcome indeed for developing countries like mine, Bangladesh, in South Asia and beyond, where...
We are always told that one of the sole purposes of living is to dedicate your life to others, to help others, to do something for others, to do something for society. I used to think that I am not someone who can do something for society. How am I supposed to do something for society, when all I ever think about is myself? I am a person with low agreeableness level who finds it hard to sympathise with others in most cases. I am not interested in things like civic engagement. To be honest, sometimes I felt guilty for my personality. For not being able to sympathise with people. I felt like I...
When I was younger, my life was stuck into a set of rules and regulations. Be a good girl. Do your homework. Don't talk in class. Don't read books in class. Evening is for studying only. Things like this. And my soul was stuck inside a life full of discipline. Same life. Same days. It was real boring. I didn't get to grow. “A successful life is a disciplined life.” To a child, those words carry no value. The adults want the children to think maturely. Well, childhood, and adolescence are not an age of maturity. Children care about having fun. Enjoying life. And what do parents do? Make those...