Personal Narrative: My Three Passions

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My Three Passions
When I was very young, I used to ask myself why I was born to this world and the reasons for me to live. It took me so many years to find a correct answer for the question. I hope I got it correctly or I am still finding a more correct one. The answer may lay on three of my passions as improving myself to help me and my family, helping other people and traveling to widen my world. Those passions lead my life to more developed stages as I am growing up.
The first thing about the meaning of my life is how to make myself today becomes better than yesterday. The second thing is about helping my family when I have more abilities. Every day, I will try to learn at least one new thing. That can be knowledge in books, a new skill,
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By going to the other places, I can learn more about lives of the others and their cultures. It is, sometimes, very hard for us to understand the way that a person or a group of people to act so different from our manner. It is also easy to make a wrong judgment about people when we do not understand their perception or point of view in a situation. Therefore, traveling and learning from people in the other places will help generate more understanding of the other culture a lot. Moreover, I can also learn more and understand the knowledge I have learned at a deeper level while observing and doing things with local people. There is a locution about traveling is the more you go the more intelligence you will learn. The development of European countries also proves that locution is true when they traveled and brought back a lot of advantage technologies, knowledge from China and India in many centuries ago. Therefore, that is a very big motivation for me to travel and learn more from many places as I can. Traveling also helps me feel that I am having more connection with people far from my home. Today we are living in a more connected world. It is good that we can just sit down and talk to the other side of the world or watch television. However, for me, until I can travel to that place and interact with local people, I can get more understanding and have true

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