Growing yourself at your own pace matters

Today, I’m going to talk about 'how important loving and growing yourself' is.

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According to the survey in 2013 on 'self-esteem' from the Cabinet Office, young people in Japan aged 13 to 29 tend not to think themselves positive, satisfied with, and high percentage of them don't think they have strong points, compared to the other countries like US, UK, France, Germany, Sweden, and South Korea.

Depending on schools, it seems Japanese school system like point-off system tend to strongly evaluate student's grades rather than their personality, joining some social works and good activities. In other words, if they don't get good grades, they would not be evaluated well.

Students who can't go to school having several reasons like sickness don't evaluate their grade at all, in not taking classes and tests.

In such a situation, I suppose most students in Japan are not easy to build their own confidence or self -fulfilment.

I'd like to ask you a question as follows: why do people need to study and grow?

Are you sure studying is just to take good grades in school? What do you think?

I think to study something is not just taking good grades in school but growing ourselves much more than before, going to school or not, to find and demonstrate our gift that are blessed and lead to contribute society to live.

Moreover, studying brings to find us something to focus on living our life by our own and what our strong points are.

We never forget how blessed you are first, regardless of having troubles in all circumstances, knowing yourself as well as having self-esteem is the most important thing for us to live.

The year 2023 is coming soon. May the New Year give us lots of happiness, and a fruitful year to grow ourselves!

Thank you for joining me as always.

See you next time😊

Teacher Asuka