Live and Learn
Many lessons that you learn are life lessons, things that you could use to benefit how you treat people and how you, personally, act. Those who do use life lessons have a tendency to want to learn things more thoroughly and tend to follow rules better. Lisa Yee’s, Aloha Kanani, really expresses how to use life lessons and think about ways to make yourself and others feel better.
When you were young, your parents might have given you a spanking or sent you to your room for twenty minutes if you did something that they didn’t like. If you didn’t know what you did wrong, they thought you did so that was their way of teaching you a lesson. In the story, Kanani thinks that her cousin is snooping on her just because of an assumption. However, she turned out to be wrong and then started reading her cousin’s diary and her cousin barely wants to speak to her because it was personal. Nobody should stoop so low, as to hurt another being’s feeling even if it was an accident. Usually you feel sad after a consequence, and you just want to cry, somebody will always be there to give you a hug no matter who it is.
As you are watching tears fall down someones’ face, you don’t just sit there and watch. You would turn the situation around and put yourself in that person’s spot. Maybe you would stand up, try to talk to them, and see what the matter is. Sorrowfully, in the story, Kanani watches her cousin sit in the backyard and cry because she missed her mom and thought that she didn’t love her anymore. It is very important to ask someone what is wrong instead of watching them suffer.
A book that really expresses how to use life lessons and to think about ways to make yourself and others feel better is Aloha Kanani, by Lisa Yee. Life lessons and caring about people will help you later in life, not just in the present time by watching out for others not only yourself. Everyone still has lessons that they could learn to help make people feel better.
