Wow, I feel good knowing the fact that I’ve had this site for one year and a month. I’m glad that I’m still sticking with my first domain ever, and not planning to move anytime soon (thinking about how lazy I’ll be to move the files, change my thumbnails and stuff). Even though I’ve had this site for one year, I’ve jumped into the whole web-designing thing since half a year ago.
That’s not the point; I’m not going to bore you with my “world wide web history”; it’s going to be like, five pages long (with specific details) and I’ve written a blog and a page about it for you to read. But something that’s still related to this, but never crossed my mind until now is actually the essential point of the whole thing: What I’ve learned from web-designing.
Sure, I learned about how to use Photoshop, code a site, messing around with X/HTML and CSS and understand that glittery animations are actually so uncool, but there’s actually a deeper meaning; more than those things I just mentioned.
For now I’m going to list two major things that I’ve learned and really affected my offline life.
Let’s just cut this prologue out. Now onto the thing.
1. No one is perfect.
Through people’s blogs, where they usually blog about their happiness, joys, even problems… I know that nobody’s perfect (I’m super late for this, I know–I thought that phrase was just a joke). People in my school have problems too, but we’re just pretty much the same–we have problems revolving around friendship and that’s all. But when I met people in the world wide web, they have different, wide range of problems and most of the time, my problems (like, family’s stupid, friends are blah) are just way too easy to handle compared to theirs. So why hating my life when other people have stuff that are worse than mine?
2. Respect and appreciate what people have done.
First time I started commenting people, back on Freewebs, I did it to earn visitors. I forced myself to read people’s blog so they won’t realize that I was actually doing it for the sake of my hits. Now I’m thankful about that because from their blogs I learned a lot of things, from people who have different nationality, ethnicity, thoughts… exciting, huh? Another thing that I’ve learned is how important these two words: respect and appreciate are. Respect and appreciate what people have done, no matter if it looks good or not; that’s another story. The end doesn’t matter, what matters is the process. People have worked so hard on their site, and see… which is better: not having an OMGSOAWESOME result but being original or having an awesome result but turns out it is a result of copying someone else?
My offline life has been amazing, although at this point I really hate my school. It is so unorganized and yesterday I just found out why. My Citizenship teacher told my class what a vice-principal usually do (it’s actually unrelated to our actual topic, Democracy, but we all know how my Citizenship teacher rolls), and one of them is making a list of students who are good at different things, like students who are good at Science, Sports, and so on. And then someone asked, “Does our vice-principal do that?”
He pitched an “I don’t think so” stare but didn’t say anything, only saying that it’s actually not his business.
My school is the worst when it comes to things like this. A week ago, there was a Social Studies Olympiad (it was canceled though) and the students were just chosen three days before the Olympiad. Seriously…?
When the class ended my teacher said to a few of us, “Actually our vice-principal arranges all the school programs himself without discussing with other teachers, so we don’t really know, although a normal vice-principal should do that.”
Bingo.
