Have you ever wondered who the hero is in your life? Well, I have a hero in my life and that is my aunt. As far as I know, most people would look upon their parents as their most wonderful role model and as their hero. However, I am much closer to my aunt as compared to my parents, as my parents did not take care of me because they are very traditional people. They believe that boys are more valuable than girls and those girls are useless.
I remember when I was young, I used to hate my aunt a lot as she always complained to everyone about how bad I am at home or at school, how lousy were the results I get in school and many more, which made me embarrassed in front of her friends when she started saying to them when she met her friends on the streets, in mandarin,’’ this was the girl I told all of you about, the girl with no bright future’’. Whenever she said this sentence to her friends, I would always look down to the ground in order to hide my face and scold her in my heart. Then, when her friends left, I would always give her attitude and I would stop talking to her, unless she asked me something and then I would answer back to her.
The time when I entered my very first primary school, an incident happened that changed my views about my aunt completely. At that time, I used to be the top in class whenever I get back my report book, and I would always show my report book to my aunt proudly. However, she was never satisfied with my results and she would always say that I may be the top in class, but I am not the top in the whole primary one cohort, so the result that I obtained was the worst of the worst. Whenever she said that, tears would always roll down my cheeks and I would run to the toilet to cry until I was able to control my emotions well, then I would leave the toilet.
When the end-of-year examinations were drawing near, a problem in me had occurred and the problem was the tendency of copying other people’s work. This problem had been following me since I was in kindergarten and I had been controlling it so well that I had begin to forget that I had such problem before. However, I did not what was the reason that triggers off this problem and whenever I was doing any homework in class; it seemed to be a devil inside me, telling me to copy my friend’s work beside me. The day of the examination had arrived and the bad feeling inside me had been stronger than before. When I got the question and answer paper, my teacher allowed us to begin with the paper and I began to do the paper. At first, everything seemed to be very successful as I did not have that bad feeling in me. However, when I reached the last question, I did not know how to do that question and that bad feeling came. This was when I began to copy my friend’s work as I could not control myself anymore and then I was caught by my teacher.
After that, my teacher brought me to the general office to call my aunt. Then, when my aunt reached the school, my teacher explained everything to my aunt and I began to cry. After my teacher explained everything to my aunt, my teacher told me to return to my class for lessons. At that time, I knew that I was in deep trouble and I did not dare to say a word until the school is dismissed. After the school was dismissed, my aunt came to fetch me home and I remained silent. I expected my aunt to scream and shout at me with all her might but surprisingly, my aunt did not and she just slammed the door of the car shut and then she pulled me by my hand into the house. After that, she immediately picked up all the canes that I think she had prepared previously and began to whip my calves with all her might. After that, she chased me out of the house and I was to repent for what I had done until my aunt allowed me into the house. During the times when I was outside of my house, I kept crying and I stopped crying until the next morning.
The next morning, my aunt woke up as early as seven a.m. in the morning and she opened the door to let me in. After that, she made breakfast for me and she asked me exactly what had happened during the examination. I began by telling her about my problem of having the tendency of copying people’s work and the events that had happened during the examination. After having to know about the facts that happened to me during the examinations, she told me that perhaps she had given me too much stress as she always wanted me to be very good in my studies. She also explained that why she was always not satisfied with my results and many more. After having a conversation with each other, the doubts between us were cleared and through the conversation, we know more about each other and the problem was finally solved.
Surprisingly, I could not believe that my aunt actually believed me at first, but as time passed, my aunt tried to lower down the stress that she had been giving me and she also tried to help me to overcome my problem of trying to copy other people’s work. These two things that my aunt had done for me had touched my heart as she had chosen to believe in me that I would be able to do well, rather than believing in other people’s tales that had been spreading around the whole school after that incident about me copying other people’s work during examination. Therefore, after my aunt had done so many things for me, I had decided to follow my aunt wherever she goes, to do the things that she wanted me to do and to respect her decision in making decisions.
She would always be my aunt, the aunt I loved the most, my most respectable hero in my life forever.