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Mar 22 / Howard Wu

I don’t HAVE to listen to you, I just choose to

Throughout my life, there has always been authoritative figures that surround me and tell me what to do. My mom, dad, teachers, tutors, aunts, uncles, cousin, grandma, the list just goes on and on. However at a very young age, I learnt that it was not 100% necessary to listen to them; I had a right to say “NO”. This was completely true as these figures had no control over my will and my actions are all up to my own decision. However, there was this one person that could always order me around even when I was resilient to the commands, and that person is my elder brother. As an older brother, one can always just beat up the younger sibling and force him to submit to his orders, but my brother was different, he always used reasoning to convince me to do his work for him. This vibe he gives off is able to inspire people to do tasks for him. Whether it be at home asking my parents or I to do the dishes, or at volunteering events asking someone to run things around, people would never have any resistance to his orders. One day I hope to be able to match his interpersonal skills or even surpass them in order to maintain healthy relationships with everyone around me.

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