1. Describe something that you are afraid of.

A lot of people are afraid of spiders. I know people who are afraid of supernatural
beings. They are afraid of enclosed spaces, of the dark, of water, and whatnot.
However, my fears are nothing like that. I remember being asked what my
greatest fear was way back in high school and I remember saying that my
greatest fear was failure. I was so afraid of failure that there were opportunities I
failed to take because I felt like I wasn’t cut for them and that I was going to fail
them. With that fear, I was held back and didn’t even try. I think that the problem
with it is that I no longer took the chance because I was thinking negatively. I was
afraid of embarrassment because I’m not used to it. I’m used to doing well in the
things that I do. However, in life, that is not always the case. We cannot always
win. But we have to accept failure because that is what would make us stronger.
There are times when we want something, but it is not for us, and it takes failure
for us to realize that we have to be redirected to something that is much better.
These words are still like hard pills that I could not swallow but I am slowly
learning to live them up because I know that if I stop trying, that is when I truly
fail. It’s okay to make mistakes. They are parts of life and I guess I just have to
stop listening to what people say about me and learn to live my life the way I
want to.

2. Difficult times lead to better days.

There are times when we question what is happening to us because they don’t
feel right. They feel like they are too much. Do we really deserve to feel this way?
Why is this happening? Why are things like this even when we have done
everything that we can? When we are in difficult times, what we can only see is
the hardship. We cannot see how far we’ve gone and how much we have grown.
We can only see the now and the blurry picture of tomorrow. Perhaps that is
really the way things are, but we should just trust the process and hope for a
better tomorrow. I know that this is difficult to do because when we are in pain,
we only know pain. But afterwards, we can see the bigger picture. There is
always a rainbow after the rain, they say. After the difficult times, we will learn,
we will grow, we will be directed to something better. Maybe we can only
appreciate good times in retrospect. However, we must still appreciate the bad
times for all the lessons and know that they too shall pass. We must embrace
today and enjoy every second of it because we are only where we are right now,
right now. Later or tomorrow, we are different. If we let things go or if we fail to
appreciate them, we might end up regretting what we missed.
3. How can a person move on from a failed relationship? Share your thoughts
based on your experiences or other people’s experiences.
I think that when it comes to failed relationships, a lot of people pass the blame.
When asked what went wrong in the relationship, what some people do is to tell
other people of the bad traits of their partner that they did not like. That is what’s
sad because when the relationship is over, you choose to focus on what you
didn’t like about the relationship and why it ended rather than all the good times
that you spent with one another. I think that in life, we just have to accept that
some people come and go. There are people who are not meant to stay in our
lives and that is actually okay. We get sad when people leave but we also
understand that some people really have to leave when they no longer add
something to our lives. When it comes to failed relationships, I guess that we just
have to understand that there are times that even if the person seems so perfect,
we may not just be right for each other. Just wish each other well and move on.
There are times when we really have to take separate paths due to our
circumstances and that’s okay. That is actually better than forcing things even
when they feel wrong. You just have to love yourself and let yourself live life. You
have to understand that people may hurt you and that’s the ugly side of love, but
love is about giving and receiving. Maybe we do not really have a say on whether
we get hurt or not, but we have a say on who gets to hurt us. Do not be afraid of
choosing to love just because you might get hurt again. Love because you want
to share it to the world. Anyway, even if you end up hurt, the world does not stop
there.