Can we learn something from our life stories?

[Adam Stepinski]

Dear Participants,
Let me start a discussion Can we learn something from our life stories?.
Is it possible to change people's behaviour, personality by observing other people's lives?
Have you found, in your partners' presentations, any facts, thoughts which made you consider or notice some problems or changed your way of perceiving the world?
Can "histories of our life" be teachers of life?

[Nadezhda]

Sure. We can use anything for learning if we want to. And in this respect other people's and our own life stories are a unique and valuable sourse.
Amy Nixon gave me a losson not to judge by appearance. A lot of makeup is not what I appreciate much but sometimes it appears it doesn’t matter much. In Russia we (many of us) mostly judge by a person’s appearance whether it is the one we would like to make friends with. And Amy with her poetic story of her life made me feel different and ashamed for my quick conclusion I jumped to. Her story is deep and thoughtful. Thank you, Amy.

[Antonella Novello]

Dear Adam,
Yes, I think I have learned something from our life stories.
I have learned I should try hard to look beyond, and see the person behind the student who, albeit very young, may have experienced tougher times than I have in my whole life.
Antonella

[Renata Krason]

I think,that all of this presentations can teach us something.
What I've noticed is, that for every young person a real friendship means a lot and that's what can help them while having problems. Another important issue in most people's life is family. A helpful and supporting brother or parents which we can rely on are very valued by teenagers.
It means, that all young people need support from others and every one of us wants to have a person who is always nearby when we need them.

[Dominika Misiura]

I agree that this presentations can teach us something. I have learned that I should respect my family and friends.I know now that we feel happy and we are more self- confident when we know that we can rely on somebody, for example, on a relative or a friend.

[Marlena Pikus]

I agree with Renata. Role of family is really important in one's life. But as far as I know, not all of teenagers have good relations with members of their families. I can only imagine how difficult this must be for them, to not be on good terms with their parents. I suspect, there are a lot of young people, who feel completely lonely and abandoned by adults. Fortunately because of these presentations, we can also meet people, who despite hardship, discovered their inner strength to belive in themselves and didn't give up. And in most cases because of their friends, (who help and support them) they find new goals in their lives.
I admire them.

[Skiba]

I think that in life it is important to family, friends, and our dreams. People do not appreciate the small things that build our world. Thanks to this thing we feel better. I think that loneliness is the worst thing in the world. people who are close to us add to our self-confidence. They shape our character. I can not imagine a situation where I do not have with whom to share my problems and successes. I wish everyone good relationships with close people because it is half way to a happy life

[Kasia Kuroń]

There are a lot of things which we can learn from those videos.
Firstly I've seen how important are brothers and sisters for You, it's intersting because I don't know many people who have such a great attitiude for their close family.
I have three brothers and two sisters, but they are much older than me and our relationships never been so good as I would like.
In this videos I've seen many animals, I enjoy it becouse I can't imagine our world without dogs or cats :)
They make us happer and are really helpful for us to resolving our problems ;)

[Kate]

I agree with all that was said here! Because everyone is right in his own way.


I think other people’s stories can teach much. Though there are situations which you can solve using other people’s experience but sometimes your own experience is more important.
the presentations I’ve seen gave food for thinking. I also think that friendship, relatives, those you love are very important and you are supposed to take care of them. And I think that hobbies are also very important. They make us individuals. They make us richer and more educated. Whether it’s music, reading, art, dancing… All is important!!!

[Nickolay]

Can other people’s stories teach us anything?
On the one hand, it seems that the mistakes of others can teach us something but in reality it is different…
A person can repeatedly make the same mistakes.
For example, you’ve come to school unprepared and he does it again and again though his mate has already had a bad grade for being unprepared. Why not to stop being lazy? No, it’s impossible till you are punished yourself!
Of course other people’s stories can teach us if we are ready to learn.

For me, I have already made several important findings: I must not be lazy ,I must work hard to achieve my goal. And I want to become economist and I do my best to do it.

[Ksenichka Timoshuk]

I think, yes! Many times we were told that only fool could learn on his own mistakes. We can learn something from our life, something from life other people and all of these lessons can become a life experience. My teacher of biology writes very wise stories and in one of our lessons she read one of these. And I thought: “She can afford herself to say what she thinks in public. She is not afraid. She is brave to do that. Why are we often afraid of something which is not that terrible?
This story helps me to be more confident.
From some presentations we can learn some lessons: how we can help to and care about relatives and friends!

[Andrey Efremenkov]

I guess other people’s stories can teach us much. Any person during his life does either something useful or something quite useless. Bearing other people’s stories we can during a short time get as much experience as another one has spent all his life to acquire. Thanks to other people’s stories humans made a great technical progress.

[Ksenichka Timoshuk]

Can we learn something from other people’s life stories?
I think, yes.
They say only fools can learn on their mistakes.
Clever people use other people’s experience.
If you want you can learn every moment in your life.
Having my own experience and experience of others I came to the conclusion that I must have an aim. And I must do my best to reach it.
Life without an aim is meaningless and it leads nowhere. Every person has his own aim: either to bring up children or make his career or to become wealthy, to have a family. They are many. What is really important is to have them.