In the Chinese traditional naming principles, a name will possess expectations from your family. My name is Jianfeng Chen, from China. My parents have my name with blessings upon me that wishing me a healthy life and prosperity.
Thinking about my past, I have spent twenty-one years in education, starting from preschool. With this much learning life, I still do not figure out what I want and whom I want to be, but one of the life philosophies that I know it deep in my mind is that what I have done in the past will influence my present and determine my future. Every decision that I have previously made impacts my life. The most important decision that I have ever made would be choosing to come to Canada for learning in seven years ago.
It is a life-changing decision for me. If I don’t make up my mind on coming to Canada, I believe that I would be a person who is counting on my family for fixing everything for me, and I won’t have the capabilities to deal with my daily chores and other businesses. I also foster a new habit that I did not have before, working out at the gym or home because the workout atmosphere here is outweighed, compared with my city.
Besides the new habit, I have met a friend who comes to the role of exploring my worldview. I am not mature back then, and I still am now. When it comes to the new me, there are some changes inside my mind that I start to consider more perspectives for expressing my opinions on a thing, not just following what I think it to be as before. Moreover, it will never be enough if I only receive information from my friends. If I want to broaden my views on a particular item, I need to be more comprehensive about other aspects of knowledge. And this is why I choose interdisciplinary studies as my major to start with my university life.
In short, I am still who I am, but a better one. Talking about the past is history, and tomorrow is mysterious. What is matters is the moment of what you decide to be. I am still looking up a better version of myself, attempting to put the right jigsaw puzzle into its place.