There was an interesting occasion where I helped someone and it happens really long enough for me to be ex-hosted by it. So it was a friend called Andrea, so of course from the name you know she is a girl, she’s a woman I mean. Sorry, we are already adults, right? So it’s on somewhere about last year that she contacted me about her problems in the student government, so she applied for the vice president position in the student government on my campus. And from that on, when she learned that the process is not that easy, then she contacted me, then she even cried in front of me and yeah, she asked me for help, maybe she saw me as someone who can really have a big strategy to handle any kind of problem, maybe that’s why she contacted me first out of every other person in her circle of friends. So yeah, I of course helped her to handle her problems. I said to her first that she needs to learn to come down and not just thinking over possible scenarios of our possibilities out of every single hardships that she encountered, she needs to learn to be more, of course, will be more elegant in how she handles hardships, handles problems and handles challenges. And yeah, when I’m okay discussing the problems with her, we are exchanging our opinion, we are debating somehow and yeah, finally I can encourage her to become more confident in her abilities to be lead in the student government. So I think that was a very big achievement for me.
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There was an interesting occasion where I helped someone, and it happened long enough ago for me to be excited about it. It was a friend named Andrea, so of course, from the name, you know she is a woman. Sorry, we are already adults, right? This was sometime last year when she contacted me about her problems in the student government. She had applied for the vice president position in the student government on my campus. After she learned that the process was not that easy, she reached out to me. She even cried in front of me and asked for help. Maybe she saw me as someone who could really strategize to handle any kind of problem; perhaps that's why she contacted me first out of everyone in her circle of friends. So, I, of course, helped her with her problems. I told her first that she needed to calm down and not just think over possible scenarios or outcomes of every single hardship she encountered. She needed to learn to be more elegant in how she handled hardships, problems, and challenges. When I was discussing the problems with her, we exchanged opinions and debated somewhat. Finally, I was able to encourage her to become more confident in her abilities to lead in the student government. I think that was a significant achievement for me.
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