Be Like a Bee, Be a Better Person

A bee on a flower

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"Be like the honey bee, anything it eats is clean, anything it drops is sweet, and the branch it sits upon does not break" -Imam Ali bin Abi Thalib-

Based on the written quotes by Imam Ali bin Abi Thalib above, we know that everything what bee does is very useful for another living things in this earth. In that quotes said that bee eats the hygienic diet, produces much sweet honey, and does not break any branch that has been visited by them. What bee does is very nice for us as human being to follow. Imam Ali bin Abi Thalib told us to be a kind person that always does good deeds to every living things in this world, thus we could be someone that is useful for other people. When we do a good deed, we need to be a best version of ourselves. We must be a better person than before first.

We know that, there are many ways and steps that we must do to make ourselves better and better, but from that quotes, we can do what a bee does at first. There are three ways to be a better version of us such as eating neat food, helping the others, and also taking care on everything in this world and making it better than before.

We are what we eat. Food is a key to shape our body as we want. For being a better person, we must have a good and healthy body. To shape our body better and healthier, we must do our first step to be a better person, "eating neat food". We know that we should be a healthy person before do any good deed. We must eat something nutritious that needed by our body. We can get a lot of nutrition from eating enough carbohydrates (rice, potato, etc.), enough proteins (eggs, hearts, etc.), enough minerals (vegetables), enough vitamins (fruits), and other needed nutrition from many healthy foods. Do not forget to keep your food clean and neat.

We are what we do. After building our body better and healthier, we must build and repair what is inside our body. Because, we do not only need a better outside but also a better inside. We must do our second step to be a better person, "helping the others". By helping the others, we can build our manner better due to of our own strong true desire and willing from our heart, our feeling then followed by good action to make our desire come true. Good action is based on our willing. If we have good and pure willing, our action will be good and totally worth to ourselves and others. But if we have no pure willing, our action may build not so good value or even build totally bad value.

We are what we keep. After building our outside and our inside, we should build another good building through real action. The real action is to keep our outside and inside building to be nice and do build them continuously. Beside that, we can also add the third step to be better person, "taking care on everything in this world and making it better than before." . To be a better person, not only build our body to be better, but we also need to take care and make our world better. We can make our earth better by preventing any illegal logging issue, if we find any illegal logging issue, we can report it to the authorities such as government and police. We can also plant many trees to empty yard and replanting our forest (reforestation). In other case, we can plant mangrove to the beach area to prevent abrasion, do not throw any garbage recklessly in our environment, recycle those cans, plastics and papers, make a natural fertilizer from household trash, and so on. Many ways to do to keep our earth beautiful, and make our earth better. But, just remember, those depends on your heart first. We must have pure willing to make our earth better. We are not allowed to destroy our earth. We must build it up. Not only taking care on nature, but we should taking care on another people too. Make friends with a lot of people, do not be a kind of person that dislikes any social activities. 

There are three ways to make us to be a better person. We can take many moral values from the kind of cute living thing named bee. Bee could teach us to be a kind and better person by showing us their habits. Bee proves that all of us can make ourselves useful to us and also the others. If a bee can do many good deeds, why we can't? We can, we should, we have, we must! Therefore, we should learn from a bee, and make a true action by doing three ways that written above with pure willing from our deep heart.

-Nawang Indah C.-