Proverb:
What does a monkey know of the taste of
ginger?
Source:
http://www.worldofquotes.com/proverb/hindu/1/index.html
Meaning:
Someone who can’t understand can’t
appreciate.
How it could have applied to my life:
During my
sophomore year, I was asked to do a project for National History Day, and my
group and I decided that we were going to make a website. Well, this website
that we made, took us all the way to the state for the National History Day
competition. One thing that I had noticed, while advancing to state, was that
not many people appreciated what my group and I did, and I kind-of became
frustrated because of this, because we had to do a lot of hard work and for the
hard work there was barely any appreciation.
After reading this proverb, it helped me realize
that those “who cant understand can’t appreciate,” because people that I had
become frustrated with were just not able to do understand what my group and I
had done to make it to the state, and so they were not able to appreciate the
work we had done.
Proverb:
The drums sound better at a distance.
Source:
Meaning:
We tend to like things that we don’t have.
How it can be applied to my life already:
Whenever
I compare the things that I have to the things that I do not have, I “tend to
like things that [I] don’t have.”
For instance, when I had an Android phone, I always thought the iPhone
was much better than the phone that I had. I thought that my phone was trash.
When I was finally able to get rid of my Android phone, I got the phone that I
had been admiring for the past two years. After I got the iPhone, it just took
me one week to start thinking how much better an Android phone is compared to
the iPhone. For me, I always tend to like the things that I don’t have, no
matter how new it is or how costly it was. I do not know why, but this always
happens to me.
Proverb:
Dig your well before you’re thirsty.
Source:
Meaning:
Start doing the things that you know that you are going to have to do, and don’t
wait until the last second to do them.
How it has
applied to my life already:
As many of my peers may know, I am over-achiever. I
like to finish things as soon as I possible. I do this, because I do not like
waiting until the last-minute to finish something, and have to worry about
whether I did it right or not. For instance, this year when I was given the
coat-of-arms to make for myself, and I had about two weeks to do it. I started
and finished everything I had to for the coat-of-arms on the first few days, so
that I might not forget and also that I might not have the time to do it on
some other days.
I finish most of the work that I am
given, the same day or within a couple of days that is given, unless its
something takes sometime to do. I choose not to take the risk of finishing
something when the deadline is nearing. I really do believe in the proverb. I preach
to others that they have to “dig [their] well before [he/she] is thirsty,”
because then they would not have to worry about forgetting to do something that
they had to do, and also that they would not have to panic when the deadline
nears.
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