MyStory

school: pei tong primary school

            Everyone has a hero. Heroes might not only be persons that save other people from bad influences or from bad things. They can also be normal people who just taught you a few things or help you out when you are in trouble. I have a hero too! He is an extraordinary gentleman who knows a lot of things and has taught me many things in life.

            My hero is a very kind and gentle person who always helps others. He knows how to do many things and is very strategic in Maths and other stuff. He also knows how to play sports like basketball, badminton, table tennis, et cetera. Other than that, he is a property agent who sells houses.

            My hero is a hero to me because he has taught me how to play sports and helped educate me from the time I was born until now.

            My hero taught me how to cycle at five years old and coached me patiently until I was very familiar with the bicycle. He always reminded me not to cycle too quickly or too slowly or I would lose balance easily and might knock into other people if I was not careful enough.

            A few years later, I started learning how to play badminton at the age of seven or eight when I was in Primary One or Two. My hero was also my private coach who trained me how to serve, smash and receive the shuttlecock when it was being hit towards me. He also taught me to control the shuttlecock and focus all my attention to only the shuttlecock and not the opponent.

            The main reason why I treat him as my hero is that he has coached me all along in my studies. From Primary One, he told me that examinations are very important as they indicate how much effort we have put in and the results stay with us throughout our lives. These results will affect many things such as the choice of schools that we can opt for upon graduation or the type of job when we are older. But, I was very mischievous at that time. I played all the time and did not want to study at all. Remembering these times, I scored a few ninety- something for some subjects and maybe a hundred for the others. I was also in the top three positions for most of the subjects. I became very proud and very lazy because I thought too highly of myself.

            Then, during the next examination that I took, my results dropped a bit and my hero thought that it was because of the standards of the papers. After the next examination, none of my subjects improved at all. I was reprimanded and beaten because of many careless mistakes. I knew that my hero caned me for my own good. I promised him that I would do better in the next examination and not only did he let me off, but took more time out to help me with my revision. At the end of the year, I got the first position in class!

            Sometimes when I fight with my elder brother over some minor things, my hero always comes in and settles the disputes using methods that will do both the parties good like telling us how we can share things, at the same time, makes us afraid, so that we would not fight again. We still fight occasionally but he still manages to them in ways that will do us good even as we have grown older.

            I wonder if everyone’s heroes are better or worse than mine. But I still think that my hero is the best in the whole world! He is my hero whom I will always look up to and that face will never change even if the sky falls. Thank you so much, Daddy.