REFLECTIVE ESSAY
The story “My Brother’s Peculiar
Chicken” is a really relatable story to the Filipinos, especially in my family.
In the story, there were a lot of arguing or debating scenes, that reminded me
of my family. There aren’t a lot of arguing or debating in my family, it’s just
that they sometimes argue about chickens. Most of the men in my family is
obsessed with cockfighting. I consider their chickens as my siblings because my
father also treats them as family.
We can’t avoid misunderstanding,
arguments, or debates in the family. Chickens are one of the reasons why they
argue, especially parents. Some arguments are because of the money that was used
for the chickens or the bet for cockfighting, are supposed to be used for house
needs or other needs, and some of them use most of their time taking care of
the chickens and less of their time to their family. I’m not saying that
chickens are not important, it’s just that they need to manage and balance
their time and organize or segregate their money. In that way, they won’t have
to argue all the time about it.
It is very delightful and lovely
knowing that in the story, they had many people to trust and ask a question to.
Some people nowadays are afraid to ask questions to other people because of the
fear of being judged. That’s why they just use the internet and search the
question. The people who they asked are very friendly and very eager to help
them. It’s hard to find people like them nowadays.
Something that contains bad manners
in the story is when the parents fought in front of the dining table when they
were about to eat. Their kids was there when their parents fought, and that’s
really bad because it may remain in their children’s memories. You should also not
fight in the dining table especially when you are about to eat or leave the
dining table or kitchen if you’re not done eating. When the food is right in
front of you, you eat because it’s a blessing, you should be thankful of what
you have. You should pray before you eat to say thank you and to bless the
foods you are about to eat.
I figured that we can’t escape
argument, misunderstanding and etc.. If we can’t escape it, might as well
prevent ourselves from making opinions that would lead to an argument. We
should be kind to other people always and respect other people and their
entertainment always, as long as it’s good entertainment, to make them feel confident
about themselves or in what they do. I also figured that some people use their knowledge
to bring people down even when they’re wrong. We should always think before we do something or be careful with our words and actions, or else you’ll regret
eventually.
