Just Be The Best Of Yourself

　　2017年12月的第一个晨会，Romeo老师在国旗下讲话，主题是“Just Be The Best Of Yourself”，做最好的自己。

　　他说：“亲爱的同学们，请别误解我，做最好的自己并不是意味着我们可以放弃所有规则、纪律还有责任。为了成为一个巨人，你需要找到真正的自己。你必须要设定自己的价值，以及你不想成为什么样的人。与此同时，你必须付出时间来实现这一目标，这也要求你必须了解什么事情对你来说是好的。懂了这一切之后，你就必须努力将之付诸实践。从现在开始，关注生活中让你满血复活的事情：什么让你热血沸腾?什么让你每天早出晚归但却乐在其中?另一方面，请思考什么让你满腹牢骚?有什么过错是你最想从这个世界上抹去的?积极思考这些之后，会帮助你找到一个真正的你。”

　　Good morning, dear SAIE students. My name is Romeo. Hope you guys are doing fine this morning. I am sure you guys have your classes in 208 in the teaching building. If you don’t, you might have been there, either for your evening self studies or for your ECAs, you name it. If you look around the classroom, you will find that inspiring quotes are posted on walls. And there is one that I would like to share some of my thoughts with you guys. “Just be Yourself because everyone else is already taken!” These words make up one of my favourite quotes. It’s funny, simple and incredibly wise. But it’s not the easiest thing to do. Because at the heart of this quote is the question. “Who Am I? Really?”

　　It’s always easy to say but hard to do, right? When I was your age, I have my idols as well. Jay Chou, from Taiwan, was one of my favorite singers then, and I even dreamt of being a singer that time. I remembered I would like to buy every CD he released and couldn’t wait to watch the TV shows he attended. Looking back, I realized that I tried so hard to be someone else. Over the passing years, I’ve come to a deeper understanding that we can’t find two pieces of leaves which are the same in the world–everyone of us is different from each other. In fact the greatest people were never versions of other people. They were, themselves. There’s only one Michael Jordan. Only one Emenim, only one Tailor Swift, you name it. So, stop being someone else. Because you can only be the second best someone else but you will always be the very best you. Just like I can be the second best Bruce Lee, if possible, but I can be the best Romeo Chen.

　　If you ever wanted to see the perfect example of someone who knows how to just be themselves inside and out, spend time with a baby. I am lucky to have a baby daughter and she is less than two years old. I used to think I have been kind of teaching her how to be educated, knowledgeable and so on. It turns out she has been teaching me how to be myself. Babies have got the Just BE Yourself stuff succeeded. And here’s the thing, they haven’t been inspired by Anthony Robbins to Be The Best They Can Be and they don’t have a library of self help books telling them the 7 steps to being themselves. They just are. Young kids don’t care what other people think of them! They have no concept of being anyone else but themselves. For example have you ever seen a baby dance? Put music on and their little bodies are moving! And it’s not how they dance it’s when they dance! They dance all the time! And it’s not just the little girls, the little boys are dancing! And this is what the kids do!

　　Then what happens? Somewhere along the line… they just grow up, they stop dancing, they stop singing. And they start worrying what others might think of them. I really believe that for many of us we’re afraid to be ourselves sometimes. And often what we’re most afraid of is that we believe that those we care most about won’t approve of us if they see the real us. Like so many people I went through so far in my life, they are trying to be like other people, just trying to blend in with the crowd.

　　Dear students, to be yourself doesn’t mean we should discard all the rules, disciplines and responsibilities. No, don’t get me wrong. To become a giant you have to first find out who you are as a person. You need to define your values, you need to define who you are and who you are not. And you need to invest time in working all of that out. This requires trusting yourself to know what’s best for you, and to work hard to be the best you that you can be. Start by paying attention to the moments in your life when you come most alive. So what turns you on? What gets you fired up? What would get you waking up early and going to bed exhausted but happy. Conversely what gets your goat? What turns you off? What wrongs would you like to wipe off the face of the world if you could? That is the real you! A piece of you that is outside the norm, outside the everyday tick tock. Someone bigger than you’ve ever played! I wish you have the thrill of knowing that of all the things you could be doing, of all the places you could go to and all the people you could be with. What ever it is, just do more of it. Look at the gifts you alone have been given and do the best with what you have. But above all Just be yourself! Not just because everyone else is already taken but because there’s no one else you’d rather be!

　　Thanks for your listening, thank you.

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