Quote

“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” This quote was said by Mark Twain, an American author and humorist. I think the quote mainly means that the problem about age is actually your problem of minding it. If you don’t care, you wouldn’t have a problem about age.

I, as a teenager, have never minded about my age. I am young and my friends in my school were mostly the same age as me; I never needed to mind about my age. Until after one month I started school in SSIS, age has become something that I mind.

I accidentally found out that the students in my grade were born in year 1993 or 1994. I was shocked, very shocked, because I was born in year 1992. I was very confused and upset. It didn’t seem fair to me. I felt like I had repeated a grade twice. Since then, age has been a touchy subject to me. Mr. Goetz told me that if I didn’t mind about the age, it wouldn’t matter. It was true, but also hard to do.

Now, I treat the whole age issue as a motivation to study hard and get good grades. I admit that I am quite an ambitious person, as I am one or two years older than the others in my grade, I should not have low grades. I am not saying that I want to have higher grades to beat other students, but as I’m older, I should learn and understand more.

I think the importance of this quote is about letting me go from my problem of minding my age. If I mind about the whole age issue, I am locking myself in my unhappy world. I believe that if I unlock myself, I would be happier.

p/s: This is actually a piece of my homework for public speaking class