Student’s Sanctuary

- Code Name: DISCIPLINE -

by: Eymarie Julia Alonzo

Discipline. The virtue plays an important role in our lives. As students, and citizens, we must observe discipline everywhere and everyday. We must learn to follow the rules and to know the difference between what we want to do and what we have to do.

Being disciplined is far more difficult than any subject we take up in school. Do we practice discipline in our lives? This is our usual problem; we don't realize its importance. For example, some students will go to school carrying only their “kikay kits” or the boys will enter the school premises wearing skinny pants which is a big “no, no” to our school rules. Some also cut classes just for fun. There are even some students who smoke and take illegal drugs outside the campus. As a result, they have low performance in their classes and they tend to concentrate on their studies.

Here in school, we are trained to become responsible people who know the difference between right and wrong. We are expected to follow the rules and regulations. When we become adults, discipline will be like an automatic gadget in our minds that will switch on when the situation calls for it.

Changing an attitude is always difficult at the start. If coming to school late is one of your habits, it will take a strong will power to control it. Remember, “Early to bed, early to rise makes a teenager happy and wise” or something to that effect. Start facing a mirror and tell yourself, “I'm prettier without make- up.” The extra money you spend for eye shadows and liners will mean extra food during recess or an extra ball pen and other school needs. Again, the word is WILLPOWER.

Being a teenager is not all fun. It also means responsibility. The next morning you wake up; try to make this affirmation, “I am a wonderful person because I have self-discipline.” BOW.