Be the Best version of you

Dear HyeWon. I want to say thank you first for taking a courage to open this letter since I know you are the person who must have been afraid of feeling sense of shame reading my expectations toward you. Don't worry, I'm not going to write anything that can put a lot on your head or hurt you. You must have gone through a lot of change during the last year. No matter what you did or accomplished, thank you for your effort. I know you are not satisfied with what you have done and feeling guilty for not doing your best on your life comparing yourself with your friends as always. But remember, life is about waiting for the right moment to act. Everyone in this world works based on their time zone. Though you feel you are far behind others, everyone is actually running their 'own' race, in their own time. Don't think that you already failed. Just continue on what you are doing and focus on yourself, not others, since you are doing everything you can do in your time zo...

"You are well-made puppet!" This is what most people in internet say to students in the school I'm in. They say all the accomplishments we have made are not ours but 'made' by our parents' wealth and greed toward us. They also regard us as robots or puppets that are controlled by parents and academy. If we proudly tell them our dream, they won't believe that's 'our' dream but say that's your 'parents' dream' thinking we are simply brainwashed by our parents to have the dream.  Some people (including some teachers in this school) also say our parents are ruining us, not helping. They assure that parents' interference and greed toward us hinder us from studying and dreaming freely. They point out situations that parents examine our grade and send us to academy to raise our test score as problems, and criticize the parents and us, who don't resist against parents who strongly govern us.  As a student who is often...