Pangilinan, Trisha C.

Educ 3A

5 Established Proverbs

1. “Opportunity knocks only once.”

 I don’t believe that opportunity knocks only once. In life, you can
experience a lot of things. But I do also believe that when an opportunity
is given to you, take it. Risk if you have to risk because you may never
know when will be the next opportunity that will come in your life. Don’t
hesitate to try things because you may never know that, that opportunity
will be a key to your success. Sometimes our instinct would be of a good
decision. Sometimes, just sometimes, when you think that that
opportunity isn’t a good idea, leave it that way and you have to reject it
for the mean time. You may never know that maybe your life will be at
risk in that opportunity. You just have to think a hundred times in
acknowledging an opportunity.

2. “While the blanket is short, learn how to bend.”

 There are two types of person in this world, the one who is born poor and
the one who is born rich. They say that it’s not your fault when you’re
born poor but it’s your fault when you die poor. If you are poor, you need
to bend your knees so that you’ll fit on that little blanket you’re using.
Learn to sacrifice in order for you to be successful and when that time
comes, you can already have a longer blanket; you don’t have to bend
your knees. You don’t have to suffer anymore. On the other hand, If
you’re rich, chances are you won’t experience difficulties in life. But other
rich people don’t exert effort in preserving their wealth that’s why when
the time comes that there will be hardships and circumstances they’ll
going to experience, they will have a difficulty in finding a solution. So we
need to work hard even we’re rich or poor in order for us to have a
successful life. But then, you can also expose and show you feet out of
that blanket. It means that you have to go out of your comfort zone or
 should I say, your uncomfortable zone rather. In that way, you’ll grow
up, you’ll try to see things differently and with that, you can show off
what you got.

3. “No pain, no gain.”

 Presumably, there is really no gain when there’s no pain. But you can gain
without so much pain. If you really love what you’re doing, then probably
you won’t experience so much pain. If there is, it will be minimal. Don’t
force yourself to do what you don’t like to do. It’s like dragging your own
feet just to do that thing without any interest and passion for it. You need
to work with love, inspiration, and admiration to gain, with a lesser pain.

4. “It’s hard to wake up someone who is pretending to be asleep.”

 Don’t try to explain your side to someone. Don’t try to open their eyes,
ears, and heart. Rather, close your mouth. The least thing you can do is
to be quiet. If they want to know it, let them. Let them know what they
need to know so that your efforts won’t be futile. Time will come that they
will need you, and you don’t have to please anybody anymore. If they
don’t value you, someone out there will. You just have to be yourself.

5. “Early bird catches early worms.”

 Don’t you ever think why other people are always late? Maybe somehow
this proverb is associated with the proverb “Better late than never” but it’s
a different story. I think other people preferred to be late because they
don’t want to be caught so early because they think that while everyone is
waiting for them, there are also other people who are late aside from
them and that they don’t want to wait. Or it could be they are late
because they think that it would be better that they are late so that they
can prepare.