Have you ever wanted to do something but other people said you couldn't do? I was the youngest children of my family and there are a lot of things that my brothers try to do that succeeded and since I was the youngest, I would want to copy them, but when I try to do it, I failed at it. However, the more they say I can't do it, the more I want to do to prove that even if I am younger then them, I could be better then them! And sometimes, I did get to prove myself but most of the time, I failed.
When my family visit my grandparents in Tainan, we always go to the school my dad went to when he was a kid. There is a playground inside with swings, tracks, monkey bars, and a small pond with really small fishes inside. We often head to that school to catch the fishes and bring it back to our home in Hsinchu. I tried to catch the fishes but I always failed. They really are hard to catch! Well, my brother always caught a lot of them while I barely catch any. Sometimes, he laughs at my action, the way I catch the fishes and laughs at me because I can't catch any. In the end, I tried and tried and I managed to catch a few. When we finished catching the fishes, we went to the side and runs around on the track and play around on the monkey bars. The monkey bars are awfully challenging because it is really long and it is not a straight monkey bar. It goes up and down and up and down. My brother went across fine. Now, it's mine turn. I tried the first time but I fell after the first uphill. My brother laughed at me and I knew what he was thinking. He was thinking that I would never get across. I tried with all my effort and manged to get across! Finally! If my brother didn't laugh at me or if he wasn't nearby, I wouldn't have the motivation to complete the whole way across it.
My mother always tell me that motivation is really important and she always give an example of two people who she thinks have a lot of motivation in themselves to accomplish things they want to accomplish. The first example is my brother, Ben Lee, and the other one is a 6th grade student my mom teaches. Then, she starts scolding at me and telling me that I don't have enough motivation to accomplish my goals.
