The Army Effects

ESL 100

Kyounghyun kim (kay)

Oct/08/2012

The army doesn’t only protect their countries. For the military that means, every army learns many various positive effects. As you know every Korean guy has to go military service. I also finished my military service two years ago. My military life was really impressive and effective. Actually before I was into the military service, I was really childish in many ways. Because that time if I had some problems, my parents always helped me. In addition, these ideas made me very haughty. However after I was into the military service, I realized everything of my thought was delusion. In the military service, I got most positive effects and learn about many things such as courage, patience and cooperation in my life.

Actually, when I was in high school, I was really silent guy. For example, during the class, even though I knew answer of the question, I couldn’t say anything because I felt shame. Looking back on it now, that was quite a stupid behavior. Actually every my behavior changed in the military service. For the first two months in my military period, I also acted like my high school life. It used to embarrass me all the time here is something that happened to me once. In military service, we had target practice. When my turn had come and took my rifle, I felt something wrong but I couldn’t say anything then I thought it will be ok. However I was injured when my gun backfired during target practice. Thanks goodness I was not more badly hurt. After this event, my boss said to me “If you don’t express your opinion, next time other people will be hurt.” That time I realized that I had to change my personality. When I had some problems, I tried to do something for change my personality.

In addition, I couldn't keep my resolutions longer than a few days since I was in elementary school student. For example, when I was in middle school student, my parent want to teach about play piano ant then they sent me to the piano school. Actually, the first three days in the piano school, everything was fun and interesting. However, after few days, I lost interesting in my piano school life then I left that school. Nevertheless, I could change this behavior after into the military service. All of the solider had to finish, whatever happened that means when we start something, we have to finish. However I didn’t finish what I was start since in my middle school. For this reason, when I was into the military, I had trouble adjusting to my military life. However I had big incident for change my lack tenacity character. One day, my boss ordered to me cleaning the whole building then he wanted to finish until 5 pm. That time, I also said “I can finish cleaning building until 5pm”. The first three hours, I worked hard. By the way, after six hours, I felt really tired so I took the break nobody knows then I thought my boss don’t check the building. At the five o’clock, I told my boss that finish cleaning whole building. He was really angry when he checked the dirty building then he said to me “you couldn’t take break and dinner until finish cleaning building. After this situation, I could get patience.

Furthermore, I have thought that I couldn’t need to other people’s help before I didn’t into the military. I was really selfish. In the high school, I didn’t like group homework because I thought I could finish by myself then I did alone. However when I was into the military, I got the limit for my work. When I was working for the military, it need to cooperation. So when I worked with other people, I was really uncomfortable. For example, I also wanted to work by myself when I got the work for repairing truck which was changing tire. First time, I tried to change tire by myself but it was really heavy so I couldn’t move tire. However I thought I settled the matter without anyone's help. Actually it had to finish until five pm then at six o’clock, the truck had to go to different place. However because of my selfish, every plan went to pieces. Finally, I realize that if I did this work together, I could avoid harming other people.

To conclude, my experience into the military effected every my life and character and then I realized before my military life was really miserable life. I think the military is not only protecting the country but also it is an opportunity to further develop myself. In the military, I could learn courage, patience and cooperation. If I didn’t into the military and then didn’t learn these positive effects, maybe I don’t have any friends and my school life can be hard. Now I have many friends and I am doing well at school because I learned these positive effects in the military.