When I was in primary school, I was an arrogant person. I always wanted to show people how good or how clever I was. Because of this, my teachers and my classmates didn’t like me very much. But my best friend taught me a “lesson” which changed me!
One day, I went to my best friend’s home to study. After we read books, I began to talk on and on, telling him about the books I read before and things I learned. My friend only listened to me. He didn’t say anything. Soon he stood up and started to pour water into my cup. I saw that the cup was nearly full, he continued pouring water into it. So I stopped talking and told him, “Hey! The water nearly spills over!” He stopped and said, “Yes, but this cup is like you! You are so arrogant, and your brain is full of the things you have known. So if I tell you something new, you can’t put them into your brain. It’s not good for you!” After hearing this, I had nothing to say. Then, he said earnestly, “The value of the cup is not because it is beautiful but because it’s hollow, and can hold water or tea!” After I heard this, I was very ashamed, and I decided to be a modest person in the future.
From that day on, I was not an arrogant person anymore. My teachers and classmates began to like me, too. Even now, I still remember the truth my best friend told me, “Be modest, don’t be arrogant!”
Many people say that life is like a lesson. I agree with it. In our lives we learn many things: how to speak, how to run, how to cook, and so on.
I remember that my most important lesson happened when I was five years old. By then, I was studying in kindergarten. I broke my arm in this stage. I remembered one day when I was playing in the playground happily, suddenly someone pushed me from behind, I fell down from a high place. When I fell, my arm hit the ground first, so my arm was broken. I felt a very sharp pain at the moment. Some teachers hurried around me. They called for an ambulance immediately. On my way to the hospital, my first feeling wasn’t pain or worry. It was loneliness. I wanted to see my mum and my dad. Finally, the doctor said that he would put a plaster cast on my broken arm and it would stay on for three more months. When I was back to school, the classmate who pushed me, said sorry to me. I was not angry with her, because she was my friend.
In this lesson, I learned that we should be careful when we are playing or doing something what is dangerous.
Also, something funny happened when I took off the plaster. Before I broke my left arm, I wrote with my right hand, but after it, I used my left hand to write! No one can find out the reason why as far as I know! (261 words)
When I was in primary two, I used to get high marks in the exam. But the second term in Form One, some of them became bad. This made me regret.
Two weeks before the examination, I still did not start my revision. It was because I got rank 4 in the first term examination. I was too confident of myself.
But a few days before the examination, I was sick. Then, I did not have anything to study for the examination.
I did not prepare well for the examination, so I had a bad idea: I can cheat in the examination! It is a bad thing, so I did not tell others.
After the examination, I got very low marks in some subjects, I even failed in one of them. I regretted that I had not prepared well for the examination and cheated. Although the teacher did not know I cheated in the examination, I think I did a wrong thing, so I went to see the teacher and told her I cheated in the examination. Finally, the teacher forgave me and told me not to do it again.
I learned an invaluable lesson. I have to prepare well before anything and I don’t cheat anymore. (205 words)