Remy Rhayem:Go on…

Go on… Robert Frost said, “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.” Life is too short, and it doesn’t stop for any purpose except the death. When people lose a beloved person, they think that life stop there, and they cannot live and adapt anymore with the current situation. Besides death, when bad things happen with someone, he/she will give up and look at life from a pessimistic way. I am one of these people; when something bad happens with me, I become pessimistic and I lose hope, but after attending “Life Skills Workshop”, I have changed my behaviors. I am always looking for the good things (the filled part from a cup of glass), and when something bad happen with me, I ask myself, “what is the good thing behind it?” Thus, we should always think about its great side, its bright side, and its funny side. I benefited a lot from that training. First, I knew “The two golden rules of dialogue”. These rules will make the dialogue more effective and beneficial. In addition, we learned the three level of education: knowledge (know), skills (know how) and attitude (know how to be). A major problem in today’s schools and universities is that they focus on the knowledge and skills and ignore the attitude. Consequently, the trainers aimed to focus on the attitude. In order to work on the attitude, a person should first understand himself, and then he/she should try to be happy, optimistic, and grateful. This looked strange at the beginning, but when I finished this training, I did understand, and I was convinced with this point of view. Furthermore, laughing is very important for health because it gets away the stress. Another information that chocked me was the necessity of living like a child; this includes expressing the feelings freely, playing like kids and being serious and focusing on the work that we have to achieve. In conclusion, although life is short, it very complicated and hard in some situations. However, the person should be strong and afford everything because life doesn’t wait anyone; it goes on.