Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Hongshick's 5th Journal

I haven’t many experiences meeting disabled people. I pretend to be fine with meeting disabled people, but actually I don’t know. I know that I have to be honest and be nice to disabled people. So I keep trying to understand and be tolerant of them. However, it is hard. Because they are different. I have to be more careful, and more patient, when I meet them. I can’t treat them like normal people. Therefore I feel uncomfortable with them.
Kellie Lim is a really brave and smart girl. And I’m sure that she had many bad experiences since she became a disable person. Because of people who are just like me. However, she got over it, and she graduated from UCLA medical school, one of top universities in America. I impressed by her major. She wants to get a job in medicine . It means she wants to help other people. To be honest, she needs help from other people. Her life might be much harder than mine. I am really ashamed, when I saw that she examined a young kid, and smiled to the kids and kid’s mom. I’ve never thought that I want be a something which can help other people.
I’m a normal person. But I think I have a handicap about my virtue. I haven’t said “thank you” to my parents for giving birth to me. I’m such a selfish person that I didn’t care about other people’s problems. And I should give more money when I meet a beggar on the subway. So the conclusion is I need to change. Actually, I kept thinking that I need to be more polite and nice to people. But now I’m in the US, and I don’t want to be an international selfish person. So now I will try to be a warm-hearted person.

3 comments:

Sabina said...

I think you are already a warm-hearted person. If not, you cannot smile just like you.

Anonymous said...

It is really important to realize our own fault, but I think putting it in practice is more important.
So, we have to try to practice what we already know

Jackie said...

'International selfish person' is so funny. What is that? Anyway, you don't need to give your money to homeless in subway. Many of them just disguise handicaped people.