continued from No. 5
Life Is...
Life Is the Way to Oneself
I think everyone should find out his own way to realize himself. It’s
very hard, you see. I’m going to be a barrister. My goal is to be a top specialist.
First, I should be a well-educated person. Second, I should have my own point of view.
Third, I should be honest and live according to the laws of my country. I want my country
to be democratic.
Sergey Petrov
What does it mean to be a good father?
I think my mission is to become a good father. Being a father I should
understand all the consequences of my actions and feel responsibility for my children. I
think that a father should teach children about good and evil. He should protect them and
help to solve their problems. The brightest remembrance of my childhood is my father who
changed into Father Frost on New Year’s Eve. I knew it, but I never told him about it
because there was calm and peace in my soul when I was sitting on his knees touching his
beard. If all fathers understood their missions our world would become better.
Andrey Pushkarov
My Mission
I think my mission is to create a good home. Home isn’t just walls or
people. Home is something else. It’s the atmosphere of love, happiness and understanding
that gives me lots of life energy. Home is my mother whom I love very much. Sometimes she
worries about me when I come home late or do unexpected things. Sorry, mum! Home is my
brother whom I love too. Sometimes he annoys me very much. Home is the place where I can
hide away from all my problems, where I can relax after a hard school day and be myself.
If I leave my home, a piece of it will be always in my heart.
Kate Momotova
Life Is a Coin with Two Sides
I have lived for 15 years, which is not very old, but I still have
come to understand a few things about my life. On the one hand, I have everything that is
needed to be a happy boy. I have a family, friends, a warm home, a wonderful school. There
isn’t a war in my country, and there isn’t going to be one. My family isn’t poor,
and there is a great chance that I will apply to a good university, and get a good
qualification. But, on the other hand, there are still a great number of problems, big and
small that I have to solve, and a number of goals that I have to achieve, to reach that
future. There is still a huge number of dangerous things that I will have to avoid, such
as drugs, alcohol, jail, and maybe even the army. So, in conclusion, I would like to say
that nobody’s life is perfect, and all people have a life with two sides. It’s just up
to them to keep the good side up.
Ilia Tsybko
Life Is Full of Eternal Contradictions
Love and hate, happiness and disappointments, life and death, real
world and virtual world, good and evil. All these things are unavoidable contradictions.
What is the real world?
I think the real world is a part of a human being. I think it is the earthly side of a
human’s life. People live in the real world and don’t know about the virtual world.
Every day we get up at 7 o’clock and go to school; in the evening we come back and do
homework. It is repeated again and again. It is our routine life. Living such a life we
don’t notice the world around us: the sun is shining, the sky is blue, the trees are in
blossom. You see spring is coming! We can’t enjoy our life, but it’s a great mystery!
We can’t see miracles. Maybe this ugly worm that is climbing in the tree will transform
into a beautiful butterfly? Maybe, this boy is captured by a love bug and that’s why he
smiles so stupidly?
I think romantic people live in a virtual world. The virtual world is our dreams. I like
to read fantasy books. Reading such books you can move into the other world, the world
where everything is possible: cats can smile, dogs can talk, witches fly through the air
on broomsticks, I can be a beautiful princess.
As for me I am between two worlds: virtual and real. Sometimes I live according the rules
and do my best to be the best. But sometimes I am ready to break stereotypes and do
unusual things. Sometimes I wear rose-colored glasses and enjoy my life. My motto is,
“Dream and your dreams will come true.”
V. Grigoryeva
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You see it’s so hard to have a mission. It’s so hard to answer the
global questions, “Why do we live and why do we die? Why do we love and why do we hate?
Why do we suffer? And why we enjoy a sunny day?” It’s up to everybody to choose if
it’s necessary for them to understand all the consequences of his/her choice or not; if
he/she is ready to feel responsibility for his/her actions or not, in other words, if
he/she has his/her own mission or not. To be or not to be? W. Shakespeare again! And
again we deal with the some eternal things: love and hate, happiness and disappointments,
good and evil…
Yelena Borisovna Garder,
Kemerovo
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