Rel paper

In the introduction, the author tells a story about his schoolmate Hurley. Hurley was a very popular since he was in basketball team and he was also good in academic works too. The author feels unfair that Hurley has so many gifts but he does not. He asks his uncle why god make people differently and unfairly. His uncle’s answer make me think a lot.

His uncle said to him that people all have their different gifts from god. God is fair to everyone but he just gives different people different gifts. Everyone has his special gift and one needs to find it and develop it. At one hand, I think he is right that people all have their gifts and everyone can do everything. However, in the other hand, I think the world is built unfair whether it is built by god or by nature.

I have a friend when I was in elementary school who was a “bad student” or being stupid. In China, we only care about people’s grades so being a bad student means having bad grades. He was a cute little guy, but he just could not understand anything teacher said. I tutored him, but he still could not understand those math problems even though I repeat many times. I wondered why he can be so stupid on academic works. However, he is so good at music stuff. He can play piano, guitar, Morin Khuur etc. and he can sing very well. Now I just think some people do not like to study or they do not have the “gift” to be a good student, but it does not mean they do not have any gift or they cannot do anything good.

I think we all have our special gifts, but some gifts can be recognized as gifts and some cannot. In this world now, the main stream idea of success is to have money. Having how much money is the only thing people cares when judging a person. It seems whatever we do is to making money. We become a good student and go to college; we find a good job which we might do not like and earn as much money we can. People who have traits or gifts that can help them making money, are called that they have gifts. Some people, who seems they do not have any gift which can help them making money, are called that they do not have any gifts. Like my friend, people think he is stupid because he cannot be a good student, even though he has other gifts about music. We are all judged by the main stream ideas and whether we have gifts or not is also judged by it.

The other thing I am thinking is that even though people all have gifts, many of them do not have time or money or resources to develop. Back to my friend, he can develop his skills in music because his parents are rich enough to support him study and buy all those instruments. People who also have gifts in music but do not have resources like money or time cannot develop their gifts and they will just be a normal person.

I want to say the world is unfair. Some people are born rich, some are born poor; some people are born with high IQ, some are not; some people are born in peaceful, developed country, some are born in war. The world is never a fair place. We cannot change our parents or our body, but we can change our minds. We can study hard and work hard. We can find our calling thought hard working and we can help others to change their bad situations.

I feel lucky all I have now. There are many people have much more than me, money, beauty, intelligence… But I do not be jealous of them. I wants to work hard to achieve what I want. There are also many people have less than me. I do not despise them or feel I am in a higher hierarchy than them. They may unlucky, but we all equal in soul. I admire people who change their bad situation by themselves and I’d like to help them if I have abilities to help them. The world may unfair, but we still need to work hard to find our callings, things we like to do and things we meant to do.