Always Be Yourself Is Not A Fairy Tale For You

When I watched the movie Billy Elliot, I was impressed by what Billys mother told him, Always be yourself. It is not an easy thing. But no matter how tough the situation is, he was supported by his family, especially his father, and people in the village so that he can pursue his dream in ballet.

Movie is a movie. The real life has to go as the way it supposes to be. Being yourself is not talking about being stupid, rude to others, or doing things without caring others. It is not difficult, but it costs some time to learn the lessons. The best thing for the youngs is that it is never too late.

Everybodys opinion has the same weight. Every people has such a stage that they care other peoples opinion rather than themselves. Its like you are doing something to please others. No matter what you like or what you want at the beginning, when someone tells you hey, dont you think it is odd? youll doubt that maybe the thing you are doing is wired.

But actually no matter whether he is richer than you or just more popular than you, your opinions matter as much as the way they are.

Everybodys opinion has the same weight.

Make your emotion under control rather than control by your emotion. It is pretty easy to understand. When you are upset, you can give yourself a space to feel it and release it. But if you just keep the emotion, and show chilling words while others searching advice from you, youve been control by your emotion. Worse, you eat a lot of junk food that will make you fat, or buy many things that you dont need and entangle yourself in debt. When you cannot control yourself, anything is possible. And you will feel regret when you realize what you have done.

Try to know yourself better about your reaction to different emotion, and try to control them.

Your parents know whats good for you.

Actually to most parents, they are searching things that THEY THINK best for their children. Maybe you dont think thats the best thing, but they love you, and they try to give you the best.

I hated going to school, I thought I can do something more interesting. But now I thank them for the education they support me to acquire. And Im still keep learning.

Sometimes Im sorry for the words that I said to my parents, but they only tell me that they love me and want me to be happy. So what am I supposed to do? Be happy and be a better person.

You arent stuck in any situation. When Ive let myself down, and I thought my parents would be disappointed about me, I stewed in my own muck. I would just wait for the bad moments to go away and I really thought it the only solution. You have two strong legs. Why youd like to just wait rather than go out and change something? Mom asked. And then I realized that theres always another solution. Wait or move on? That depends on you.

Keep learning. I used to wish to try everything, and see how it was like. But after a period of time, I became wary of trying new things. I dont know. Maybe I just didnt want to change everything. Then skepticism enraptured me, fear grabbed hold of me, and the worst thing is I became gutless.

But you dont have to change everything. Slight changes can make your life different a lot. And as the development in science and technology, it is much easier to grasp information. You can learn lessons from others experience without doing them all by yourself.

I learn many things these years, and from time to time I wish I could go back to my teens to tell what Ive learn. But then I find even though I told her everything, she couldnt understand better than I. Maybe my moms right. You create your own experience, and the experience defines you. Mom said, Be appreciate to everything.

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Peter Lehner: Six months after the spill, that we must always do to prevent another disaster

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It was six months ago that the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded, killing 11 men and sending 200 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.The blast continues to reverberate half a year later.

Up to 50 percent of the oil may still remain in the Gulf, fishermen are still out of work or uncertain if their catch is safe, and the marine ecosystem is still degraded.

Yet, what is even more alarming is that America is in danger of repeating this tragedy.

Six months after the largest peacetime oil spill in history, we have failed to take the steps that would best prevent another devastating spill. ?While the federal government has made progress by issuing new safety standard, Congress should be moving right now to make drilling safer.

After all, the laws on the books are the same, America's level of oil consumption is the same, and our scientific understanding of oil spills is largely the same as before the BP blowout.

We can't keep doing nearly everything the same and expect different results. As actor Edward James Olmos said in an ad about the spill for NRDC's Action Fund, that is the definition of loco."It's time to boost our sanity," Olmos says. "America doesn't want more oil disasters."

Instead, Americans want Congress to make necessary changes. They support efforts to restore the Gulf and hold accountable BP.They also support efforts to transform the failed energy policies that fuel risky drilling. According to a poll conducted by the NRDC Action Fund, voters overwhelmingly support clean-energy legislation that creates jobs and climate-change pollution limits.

We know what it takes to protect coastal communities and marine life from devastating oil spills. We just need to start now, and this is how we begin.

Pass the Oil Spill Bill to Reform Offshore Drilling

Operating at the frontier of knowledge in conditions more challenging than deep space, wells like BP's are inherently dangerous.To make matters worse, the drive into deeper and riskier Gulf waters occurred in a context in which our watchdog agencies were defanged and compromised, creating an atmosphere in which oil-company engineers sometimes penciled in their own responses to inspection forms.

This reckless wildcatting and lax regulatory culture has to end. The Department of Interior issued new regulations - with more to follow - that will begin to make needed changes, but Congress must act as well. Only Congress has the power to strengthen the statutes that govern offshore drilling and hold companies fully accountable for damages.The House passed a bill promising in August, but the Senate went home for elections without passing key legislation to prevent this kind of disaster from happening again. Click here to tell your lawmakers to pass legislation spill as soon as they return in mid-November.

Respond to Immediate Health Concerns

Introducing 200 million gallons of oil into an environment has serious implications for people's health. Yet government testing of seafood and worker safety has been woefully inadequate and much of the data has been withheld from the public. The FDA should fix their flawed seafood testing, and the government should launch studies of residents' ongoing health effects.

Conduct Independent Scientific Research

Time and again, America has failed to conduct thorough research after oil spills.We can't afford to lose another opportunity to learn how to prevent and prepare for future spills.BP has committed to funding $500 million over 10 years into independent research, but that's only a fraction of what's needed.Meanwhile, the BP money is going to be distributed in a way that may put Gulf state's political interests ahead of scientific expertise.

Science should not fall victim to local politics.As I wrote in a recent letter to BP's CEO, the research money must get into the hands of the best scientists in the world, not just those who live in the Gulf.

Unleash Technologies that Help Us Use Oil More Efficiently

America's 800 million-gallon-a-day oil habit has encouraged energy companies to push past the limits of safe and reliable drilling.We burn oil in outdated engines as if it Katherine ain't one of the most valuable resources we have, and we turn a blind eye to the dangers involved in filling our tanks.

We should use oil as efficiently as we possibly can.As I explain in my new book, In Deep Water: The Anatomy of a Disaster, the Fate of the Gulf, and How to end our Oil Addiction, technologies exist today that can help us do that, but we need smart policies to make efficiency the norm instead of the exception.Last month, Obama administration officials said they are considering issuing fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks equivalent to at least 47 miles per gallon and as high as 62 gallons by 2025.Setting the bar on the high end of this range will save 80 percent more oil than setting it at the low end.We are urging the administration to go high - a move that will save American families and American businesses money on fuel.

Together with more investment in public transit and low-carbon fuel options and a concerted effort to shift our freight transfer from trucks to rail and to design our communities so we are not sitting in traffic, America can cut our dependence on oil in half, create jobs for American workers, and better protect natural treasures like the Gulf of Mexico.

This post originally appeared on NRDC's Switchboard blog.

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