Advice I Often Receive From My Parents

       A piece of advice that I often receive is ‘as long as you do your best’. This refers to success in everything from school to career. I believe that this is a good advice because it tells me that my parents trust my judgment and will respect my decision, even if they are wrong. This helps to take pressure off me especially at school because I don’t have to live up to certain standards and try to accomplish goals that are unattainable. Instead, I can just worry about doing the best I can. It is possible that I mat have a career that is not the higher paying or the most prestigious. But as long as I am happy, and I do the job to the best of my ability, I will feel like I have accomplished something. This is good because many kids have to live up to expectations that they can’t attain or do something that they don’t really enjoy in order to make their parents proud.

      The problem with saying ‘as long as you do your best’ is that when I know I could have done a better job, I have a sort of guilty that would make me hate it when I get a mediocre mark or fail in something, and my parent would say ‘as long as you have tried your best and the hardest’. It gets quite annoying when I second guess myself about what I could have done. However, when I know I did the work as well as I could and it’s a good mark, I don’t worry about it as much as some people might.

      In conclusion, a piece of advice that I often receive most often from my parents is basically a good one, and often it keeps me motivated in the things I do. It also shows me that my parents will support most of my decision and treat me like a responsible person. I believe that somewhere along the line, I’ll probably pass along the advice ‘as long as you do your best’ to my children.

 Amalina Ab. Rahim