mohi yao . d9 . fin

"Mohi dear," mother would say, "Excellent work!"

She loved to praise me on my piano skills, and for a while I wondered if I was actually good at it, or if she was just trying to make me feel good about myself. It turns out, after deciding to take lessons for playing the piano and my teacher telling me that I had a gift for the instrument, I actually was doing an excellent job.

I've always been dedicated to everything that I do. I love to tinker with things: I create new stuff out of random bits and pieces I might have lying around. I always have so many ideas, and I almost always seem to be able to turn them into reality.

I don't like to brag or boast about things, though. I don't go around telling everyone that I'm good at piano, or other things like that, at least not on purpose. I do accidentally bring up how much wealth my family has from time to time, but it's not meant as a means of showing off. Honestly, it's not intentional.

Showing off isn't something I ever mean to do. To be completely truthful, aside from the stylish manner in which I dress, I don't try to draw too much attention to myself. I enjoy a lot of different hobbies, and although I seem to excel at most of them, I don't let everyone know it. Sometimes I'll even act as if I'm not very good at what I'm doing so that other people don't feel bad about their own performance.

Although, I suppose that's lying, which makes me a bit hypocritical, since I hate when people lie. I have this habit of calling people out on things that I consider immoral, which definitely includes when people decide that they think they should be lying. I'd also consider myself to be one who gives a lot of constructive criticism. I will point out when someone does something that could've been done in a better way, and how they could fix it, but that often irritates people.

I try my best to be a kind and gentle person, but sometimes my words get the better of me when all I'm doing is trying to help. I don't yell at people without good reason. I don't criticize people unless I think I can assist them in improving, but nevertheless, things don't always go as intended. Sometimes, I make mistakes, as we all do.

I've been in a few dangerous situations in my life, but have always gone through them calmly and level-headed. I can recall when one of my friends was caught up in an altercation with a Peacekeeper and had a gun held to his head. I had to approach to Peacekeeper who was holding the gun and try to talk him down from it. I managed to do so, all the while speaking calmly, which I think truly was what helped me in that situation in the end.

When I was really young, I was in another rather dangerous situation. A woman with ill intentions had broken into our house in the middle of the night, climbing through my bedroom window. She had a crowbar in hand, and when I woke up to her opening my window with it, I immediately jumped out of bed. I was about five or six years old at the time, and when the woman saw me, she approached me with the crowbar. She didn't care how young I was, she was still willing to hurt me to get what she wanted just the same.

As she approached me, I called out to my mother, yelling as loudly as I could. The intruder struck me on the forearm with the crowbar, shattering the bone in my arm. My parents both came rushing into the room and took care of what was going on, managing to contact Peacekeepers and get the woman out of our house. My father tended to my broken arm, which took quite a while to heal.

In that particular situation, I knew it was better to yell than to try to fight the intruder. She was armed, and had no one known I was in trouble before she struck me, it could have turned out much worse. I suppose she could have even killed me before moving on to whatever her plans were in the house. I believe she was trying to rob us, given my family's wealthy status.

If I had to go through it all again, I think I'd still carry things out the same way I did before. I'm rather confident in the decisions I've made in the past. I'm rather confident in myself in general. I just try not to over-do it, of course. I wouldn't want to seem like a cocky, narcissistic show-off. I know people like that— especially one guy in particular— and I don't want to be like that.

So, I spend most of my days focusing on my creative hobbies, and always try to do good for the world and my family where I can. I just hope that I can make a difference in people's lives. I want to be remembered for the good I've done, not the bad.

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