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It has been my dream to share about my struggle to everybody. When the AEC team offered me this opportunity, I did not hesitate to take it and I even made a few more improvements in my essay so the readers can get more interesting details about my story! I hope you enjoy reading them. Thank you for this opportunity AEC. - Ahmad Safwan
A person who changed my life
by Ahmad Safwan
Everyone that exists in our lives must have a different impact on us, whether positive or negative. This is so because everyone in the world has their personality and ability that able to inspire and motivate other people’s lives with or without consciousness. In living life, we need to always learn from others to improve the weaknesses we have in ourselves to leave behind our bad habits either attitudes. There could be a moment where you met someone and your life changed into a better version more than before. That has been my belief ever since this beautiful woman named Anatasha Rasilo was introduced to me by fate.
I met her by the time I was 15 years old in 2017 in one of my favorite restaurants located in my lovely hometown, Sandakan, Sabah. At the moment, she was sitting alone with her laptop on the table while listening to music. The beginning of our introduction begins when I had spilled my drinks on her by mistake. I apologized right away, expecting her to scold me just like in the nowadays Malay drama, but instead, she seemed more concerned about my situation. I thought of her as a well-educated and noble-hearted woman. She impressed me with her noble traits. We exchanged phone numbers and keep in touch after that incident, not realizing that we had started to talk about everything such as our dream, life goals, education, flaws, and so on, and become a close friends. That was where she has changed my life by influencing me in so many ways.
I used to be an introverted person. I found it hard to communicate with others because I have a very lack of self-confidence, and people always misunderstand me as an arrogant person. That caused me to have no friends that I can confide in to tell about my personal or environmental issues, as a nowadays best friend usually does. I have no courage to voice out my opinion, feelings either making a new friend. Everything changes after I met Anatasha. She often spread me with her positive words that were able to light up my day. She once said, “no matter how bad that person treats you, never repay evil with evil. Instead, stay positive and kill them with your kindness! “, that has been my quote of the year. She inspired me with the way she talks, her polite words, her attitude, and the smile that she often wore to comfort people that she is talking to.
In addition, I made her my role model in improving my unprofitable nature. I started to overcome my fear such as talking confidently in front of people, smiling frequently, and spreading positive vibes to everyone around me with compliments or something that can tone up their day. Anatasha always told me that a person who is very lacking in self-confidence is always at loss. I agreed with that when I compare my life to the present. One more, I still remember the moment where I told her about my insecurities and how I was jealous of the beauty she had. She hugged me and said, “You are beautiful just the way you are. It is just you are blind to see your real perfection because you have become accustomed to comparing yourself to other women”. She is one in a million.
To sum up, loving ourselves first is the effective way to attain happiness either give perfect love to others. Other than that, there will be a moment we will be at our worst time and it causes us to lose our self-confidence. If that happens, we should take some time to talk to God or express our feelings out to the person that we trust the most that we know can boost our spirit back. I might not have a lot of friends, but I have that friend whom I know will walks in when the rest of the world walks out of my life because having a small circle but being surrounded by wonderful people are better than having a lot of friends but no one will be there when we need them. Anatasha has been a fantastic role model for me as I have struggled to break free from my old life's cocoon. Thanks to her, I am now the opposite as I am before.
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