me: a self portrait in so many words
What are things I take for granted in my life, that are givens, that are undeniably true.
Why: My parents raised and taught me with their love.
Consequences: I learned to love people and being loved by people.
Why: My mother is a person who always has passion and she can always cheer people up when they feel down.
Consequences: Passion became one of the most positive side of my characters.
Why: When I chose to come abroad and leave my country start my brand new life, my bff told me that she believed that I can make my dreams come true here while everyone thought that I would failed.
Consequences: The things my bff told me encouraged me to chase for my dream and do what I really want to do.
Why: I feel extreme lonely when I first come to the US because I can talk to nobody but myself only.
Consequences: Lonely is one of the most important thing in life that all of us need to get used to.
Why: I was fat in my high school and some mean classmates liked to laugh at me.
Consequences: Be tough is the only way that keeps you ignore all those mean words and change your life.
Why: Everyone will have fear, no matter to things or to people.
Consequences: I think that fear is the thing that makes us brave.
Why: Nobody can be success in every single thing, I’ve lose for many times before I reach my goal.
Consequences: Lose teaches us how to success and help us learn not to give up easily.
Why: I was disappointed when I realize that I can’t study in New York and I learned to get used to it, now, I feel that East Lansing is also a really good place for me to focus on my major.
Consequences: Disappointment comes with hope, life needs hope, so disappointment becomes unavoidable.
Why: Smile is the best way to start friendships with people.
Consequences: Always keep my smile, maybe I won’t be friend with everyone but at least I won’t receive anger from people.
Why: Not every single exist is gifted, hardworking can help us reach our goal.
Consequences: We might not intelligent but we can also do a good job with hardworking.
Why: Joy is all around our lives.
Consequences: Learn to find joy in life is one of the most important lesson we should take, it can make us feel happier.
Why: Family is the first place we know and it would also be the place that always opens door for us.
Consequences: Among all the reasons why we become what we like today, family is one of the most effective reason.
Why: Air, water and so on, natural resources are something that all the human beings take that for granted and we haven’t donated for the nature since the day human existed.
Consequences: We can’t live without natural resources.
Why: We are free to learn the knowledge that the elder generation left us.
Consequences: Without all those knowledge, our society will remain the same but no development.
Why: The whole society environment is a place that we can live and learn.
Consequences: People can never live independent from the society.
Why: Challenges are given by lives.
Consequences: we can learn from challenges.
17. Ability to express emotion
Why: Happy, sad, angry, we can express our feelings and release our pressure and share our happiness.
Consequences: It’s hard for us to express our emotion and people would go to extreme.
Why: Believe in something doesn’t require us to sacrifice.
Consequences: Believes bring us motivation to go forward.
Why: Variety kinds of sounds together build our living environment.
Consequences: A world has no sounds only silence is horrible and unbearable.
Why: Even though the global environment is not entirely peace but I born in a peace place and I learn the importance of peace.
Consequences: Peace gives me hopes towards life.
Why: My father is tall and because of heredity, I’m tall.
Consequences: I’m tall among Chinese Female that I can do many things that my friends can’t do.
Why: My father is a good-temper person who always calm.
Consequences: This is the best thing my father has taught me. I can keep calm when things happen.
Why: I’m good at forgive others and I like to share things with my friends.
Consequences: I earn a lot of friends in my life because of generous.
Why: I can understand people because I’ve once misunderstood by people around me.
Consequences: Understanding can help me avoid argument.
Why: I like to listen to people more than talk about myself.
Consequences: It ensures me know others better.
Why: I always respect myself.
Consequences: respect myself help me build up my confidence.
Why: I believe that everyone , even people who beg for money in the street, worth me to respect.
Consequences: People would be kind with me.
Why: I’m a proud person and I would try my best to reach my goal.
Consequences: Proud is one of my motivation to work harder and harder to make myself out-standing.
Why: I like to be alone some times and I can bear lonely.
Consequences: Lonely help me to focus, I can think deeply about my work, my life while I’m alone.
Why: I’m proud and because of that, I can be tough and hard to be beat.
Consequences: I won’t show my weakness in front of people, I can keep smile and talk easily when I feel like cry.
Why: I don’t afraid of being funny. I make my friends laugh.
Consequences: People would like to be my friends.
Why: I can focus on things for a long period of time.
Consequences: It makes me easier to finish my job.
Why: I’m good at learning.
Consequences: I can learn things quickly.
Why: I can cook good Chinese cuisine.
Consequences: I can take good care of myself.
Why: My parents are busy and I live in campus since high school.
Consequences: I can figure out problems by myself.
Consequences: I can talk and be friends with many people older than me.
Why: I’ve organized many small events and I also helped to organize big events during my middle and high schools time.
18. Appreciation of beautiful things
Why: Beautiful things around us, such as beautiful views, clothes, paints, music and so on, we are given the ability to appreciate them and enjoy what they bring us.
Consequences: Only with the appreciation of beautiful things we can enjoy our lives, without that, we can only alive but not live.
Why: My parents require me to keep my stuff clean.
Consequences: A clean work places leave people a good impression.
Why: sometimes I keep quiet because I haven’t find the appropriate reaction.
Consequences: I can avoid embarrassing.
Why: I’m a shy person that I not usually talk to others at first.
Consequences: I lose many opportunities to make new friends.
Why: I don’t usually show sympathy to others when they feel weak.
Consequences: People may misunderstand that I only care about myself.
Why: Proud is my strengthen but also my weakness.
Consequences: I’m too proud to show my feelings that people may care less about my feelings.
Why: I would sometimes do things not as good as I should do because I’m sometimes careless.
Consequences：I need to do a lot of work to fix the mistake I made.
Why: I like change and challenge, I hate waste of time.
Consequences: I’m caprice that it’s hard for everybody to accept me.
Why: I think sleep would waste my time.
Consequences: It’s hard for my friends to adjust my time because I always feel that I’m full of energy in night.
Why: Even if I hate people doing something to me, I won’t tell them directly.
Consequences: I need to bear people that I dislike because I don’t know how to show them that I don’t like what they do.
Why: It’s hard for me to make a decision.
Consequences: people may sometimes feel crazy when I keep swinging back and forth.
Why: I have too many goals that it’s too much for me to complete them.
Consequences: I would feel upset if I can’t reach my goal.
Why: I will easily feel upset and happy even though I’m not good at showing them.
Consequences: It makes me tired.
Why: I always in a hurry to do something even I have enough time to finish them.
Consequences: People would feel that I’m too hurry.
Why: I always hide myself.
Consequences: hard for people to understand me.
Why: I’m not a patient person.
Consequences: I hate waiting.
Why: I’m not an optimistic person. I always think that things would happen in a worst way.
Consequences: makes me not happy.
Why: sometimes I just don’t care enough about the things I borrowed others that I cant find them when I need them.
Consequences: I always spend money in the same thing.
Why: I’m too picky that I keep changing my mind about something
Consequences: People around me sometimes think I’m too picky that hard to communicate with me in some things.
Why: I’m too polite sometimes.
Consequences: people may think that I’m trying to be distance.
Why: I like to figure problems by myself, sometimes the problem I cant fix.
Consequences: I put too much pressure on me.
Why: I’m too lazy that sometimes I would only care my own things but don’t care abt others.
Consequences: friends think I’m cool.
Why: I’m eager to do things.
Consequences: People dislike this character.
W: I afraid of things out of control.
C: I feel lose control and even despair sometimes.
W: I don’t afraid of being lonely but sometimes I fear of feeling lonely.
C: I feel helpless when I really need to talk but my bff is not around me.
W: Traffic sometimes is dangerous
C: too much traffic would make me feel panic.
W: I scare of people shout or yell at me.
C：I would be angry and fight back.
W: be left behind like be abandoned.
C: I would be extremely upset.
W: Ghost means all the super natural things to me.
C: super natural things are something that I can’t control and I don’t have knowledge about.
W: asking for help means that I don’t have ability to finish something.
C: I would feel I’m stupid and lose my confidence.
W: I’m not intelligent, sometimes react slowly towards electronic device.
C: I would sometimes make a mess.
W: being beat and the taste of failure is bad.
C: My proud is being threatened and I would be disappointed with myself.
W: good memory or bad memory.
11. Making decision for others
W: I can take responsibilities for myself but I don’t like making decision for others.
C: I would be blame for making wrong decision for others.
12. Being told what to do
W: I know myself and I have my own way to do things.
C: if others ask me to do something, I would feel that I’m not me.
C: I would feel embarrassed.
14. Singing in front of people
W: I can talk fluently in front of people, but no singing.
C: I feel panic and I would try to run away.
15. Face something that I want run away from
W: I would run away from things or people that I don’t want to face.
C: if I need to face them, I would feel like I’m the person who should take responsible for all the mess.
W: if everything are in a mess, I would lose my mind. Don’t know what to do at first.
C: if I’m angry, I would lose my mind and hurt the people that I care about.
W: I afraid of being sick.
C: if I’m sick, I might lose my time just lying in the bed and think sad things.
19. Being the topic od others
W: I don’t like to be the focus of others.
C: I don’t know how to react.
W: I don’t want to know the secret about others.
C: I don’t know whether I should or shouldn’t tell if the secret that I know is illegal or it will hurt my friends.
