Comparison and Contrast Essay

The Devolution of Adolescence Becomes Adulthood

            Have you gotten turning point in devolution of your adolescence becomes adulthood? In this period, there is much turning point that might be gotten in your life. The turning point that I have gotten in my life especially happened when I was in third grade of my senior high school. At that time, I joined a meditation course. There were a similarity and differences of my personality that I felt after I joined it. In the differences of my personality, I thought that I became more wise and responsible than before, and then friendly is one similarity that did not change in my personality yet.

            Firstly, I felt that I became wise after I joined meditation course. Before I joined it, I felt that I was a person who did not really consider with other people. It meant that I did not have a consciousness about how to respect with others. At that time, I just did everything which just considered my importance, and I did not really care with others’ importance; on the contrary when I have joined a meditation course I could feel that I was changed. I was able to respect with others. In addition, when I did everything, I always tried not to just consider myself, but I also tried to consider the others’ importance. Thus, becoming a wise person gave good benefit of devaluation of my personality.

            Secondly, I thought that my responsibility was increased in the age of my third degree in senior high school. Before I was in this age, I felt that I did not have any good responsibility in doing everything. I just wanted to postpone every task that I should do. “A task can be finished in one hour before being submitted”, that bad principle was always thought in my mind at that time; in contrast when I was in the age of my third degree in senior high school, I thought that I had better responsibility. It was due to an advice that was given by my priest in my meditation course. He told me like this “If you do not use your time effectively, it means you make your life useless”. Therefore, I thought that my responsibility was enhanced when I joined a meditation course.

            Thirdly, friendly is one similarity of my personality that was similar both when I have joined the course of meditation and when I did not join it any. I thought like that because I felt that I have already had that personality since I was in kinder garden. My parents always told me to make many friends, learn about how to be familiar, and learn about how to maintain a good relationship with others. In addition, my family and I also have tried to implement the advice of how to maintain a good relationship each others, for instance when one members of my family did wrong, other members always apologized as soon as possible, and asked him or her to make a promise in order not to do it again. So, to be a friendly person was a principle that I have had in my life since I was as a kid.

            In conclusion, there are similarities and differences of my personality between devolution before joining a course of meditation and after having joined it. Wise is one personality that I felt from it. In this case, I have been taught about not just to consider myself, but also tries to consider the other one’s importance. In addition, I also felt that my responsibility is increased when I have learned about meditation. “If you do not use your time effectively, it means you make your life useless”, it is a useful advice that I got from my priest who wants me to be responsible in doing every task that I had. Moreover, there is also one similarity that I have felt as same as the personality that I have had both when I do not have learned about meditation and when I have joined it. It is about how to be a friendly person. I have already taught about it by my parents since I was in kinder garden.