Being flighty and showing our weakness makes us unfortunate. From now on, never give up and never be defeated no matter what happens. We must challenge ourselves continuously, and at the end, we will obtain our victory. To have a victorious life, we must first defeat our own weakness.


----Ikeda Sensei


The 21st century's Youth Division is often called the "Strawberry Generation" where we dress ourselves up beautifully on the outside. However, we can never resist or take in pressure. We're weak in emotion management and could easily be defeated from challenges. Worse, most of the youngsters are being materialistic. All the temptations have wiped out their spirits from within. We could see that there are more and more youngsters contributing to the ascending crime rate nowadays.

Let's compare the flowers in the greenhouse and the wild flowers. The flowers in the greenhouse, being well protected, could not take up the challenge. Once expose to drastic weather, or being in a different environment, they would wilt. This goes the same for us. If we keep on being flighty and showing our weakness, we never get to grow and improve. We must learn the way wild flowers have survive through drastic challenges. No matter how the weather changes, they could still bloom gracefully.

No matter how hard the challenge may be, it is only for temporary. A storm never stay forever. Life is like the weather, sometimes it's a sunny day with clear blue sky, sometimes it's a gloomy rainy day. However, there is no reason for us to be weak, nor to give up. Just like the wild flowers, we must believe that we could bloom after a rainstorm.

If we have a strong determination, we could get through any challenges --- an opinion by Goethe. Take the challenges as the assistance of our growth, courageously, and continuously challenge, and we will obtain our victory in life.

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