Bad Thing Leads to Good

張貼日期：Dec 30, 2011 6:44:40 AM

Orange Liu

I would never forget the hardest time when I was a junior high student. Because my father got cancer, and my mother had to take care of him in the hospital, I had to live with my elder sister temporarily. I felt helpless to face such a big transition in my life, especially when I was in puberty. However, every time when I recall this period of time, I can gradually understand the value behind the tough time and how I can overcome problems of my life.

On the first day when I walked into my sister's house, I felt that nothing there belonged to me, and my sister and I were unfamiliar to each other. The reason why there was a gap between my sister and me was that we were quite apart in age, and we never got along with each other like sisters. However, I thought everything had a starting point, and we just started to understand and communicate with each other. After all, we are sisters, and we could finally find that we have many things in common. It was a strange but happy feeling to share with a person who has similar looks and personality with me. One night, we chatted, laughed and shared with each other about many things. I had never thought that I could have a sister who can be my good friend.

Since my father got cancer, my sister has become very busy with our family restaurant, and I also have had to help with it after school. It was difficult for me to talk with customers and remember what they had ordered. Sometimes, because every employee in the restaurant was too busy to tell me what the next step was, I often made things worse. At that moment, I realized that this job was not easy, and my parents always worked so hard to pay my school fees and many costs of our family. I felt abject and depressed because I had never tried to help my parents actively before. After a few days, I tried my best to learn everything in our restaurant, and I got the knack for remembering the name of each dish and serving customers properly. I had a sense of achievement and confidence from the experiences.

The most difficult thing for me during the time was that I had to do many things that I had always relied on my parents to complete before. Without my parents, I was just like a disabled person, and I even broke my sister's washing machine and burned many boilers. I had to learn to do the housework that I had never done before. I found myself stupid and useless because I had depended on my parents too much in the past fourteen years. I knew I could not take anything for granted anymore, or my survival ability would be zero. Although I would complain about my life or be angry with my bad experience sometimes, I was still full of joy when I completed one thing perfectly, and it was just like many flowers were blooming in my heart.

I knew many things had changed during the five months. Not only my thoughts but also my relationship with my family has become better and more satisfying. I believe that bad things can lead to good, and every challenge has its meaning. We can overcome adversity as long as we really care about it and try hard to better ourselves. After this experience, I understood that I could do many things well, I could become independent, and I could be brave to face problems without my parents. The most valuable was that I made a best friend--my sister.