Life Values

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You should never allow anybody to tell you what your goals or passions are, you should never try to fulfill anybody else’s dreams except for your own because if you don’t give yourself a chance to do what you want to do, the only person you’re letting down is yourself. Today I am given this special opportunity to share my life values with you. Some of my life values that I will be sharing with you today are; my family, passions, and goals that motivate me to get through life one step at a time. Now let me start out by telling you about family and what it means to me.

According to the dictionary the word family means “one’s own flesh and blood, kinship, and offspring.” Do you agree with the dictionary’s definition? Well I don’t, I think family is much more. To me, family is anybody who you’ve built a strong bond with, anybody who you care about, trust, love, and respect. In the first column of my collage are a few pictures of people whom I consider to be my family; my dance group, my close friends and of course my immediate family.

Passions, what are passions exactly? Passions to me are things that you feel so strongly about that you feel like you need to do something about them. Passions are your desires, wishes, and aspirations and so much more. One of my enormous passions in life is to preserve and carry on the Hawaiian culture. The pre-contact native Hawaiian population has been estimated to as high as one million, and the native population after the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy in 1893 was 40,000. Today, the number has dramatically decreased to 8,000 and it is predicted that be the year 2024, pure Hawaiians will no longer exist. Although pure Hawaiians may not exist in the future, my effort to preserve the Hawaiian culture will only grow stronger ad I continue to tell ancient stories of Hawaii through my hula dancing. Every dance I learn is just another step to help preserve a culture whic...