Life lesson from Kung Fu Panda 2

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Actually this is my reflection for Academic Skill subject, but I found out that this story was really interesting. And yeah, I want to share it others :)

So, I wrote some life lesson that I got from Kung Fu Panda 2.

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            In short, this movie is told about journey of Po (a panda) and his friends in the journey against enemy, Lord Shen. Po also had some conflict which his father which is a goose. His father told that he was found Po in the vegetable basket behind his restaurant and raised him until now. Po really wants to know about his background and who is his parent. As he fights for justice and peace, little by little he remembers what the past happened to him. Lord Shen was the one who responsible separated him with his parent. Inner peace that had mention by his Master Shifu really helps him to remind his past memory. It is also was help him to win against Lord Shen.

            The journey of Po against his enemy was bringing many lessons in this movie. There are 6 life lessons that I can find which are the inner peace, teamwork, appreciate what we have, affection of others, past doesn't make who we are and life is the real teacher.

The inner peace is the difficult phase of peace that can be achieved. It is not like physically peace, but it is totally inside us. Like what was happen with Po which he only found it when he get real calmness, accept what happen in the past and appreciate what he have now. With that, he found his strength, confidence and happiness that brought to victory against his enemy. Contras with Lord Shen, even though he has powerful weapon and strong wolf, he frets inside. He was full of revenge, fear and greedy. It is caused he was defeated by Po.

Po was really lucky, he has a good friends. Even Po always not take serious in what he does, his friend always beside him. Tigress is the one who always patient with Po’s behaviour. Although Po always careless, clumsy and annoyed them, his friend always support him. It can be seen when his friend always worried about him when they at the Gongmen City. Po suddenly disappears and become a Dragon disguise in order to hide himself. When his friend found out Po in the dragon disguise and he was in danger, they quickly come to Po and together pass the danger (Wolves) to find the jail (which their mission). It is impossible for Po to do his own since he was alone in the dragon disguise. He cannot see clearly the road and the enemies, but with his friend they able to do it. It is possible for us to do thing own, but sometimes we don’t know where the danger come. It may saw by our friend. It is call team work. We are helping each other to achieve successful.

This movie also teaches me to appreciate what we have. We may imperfect, have weakness, lacking in certain things but we actually have others strength. Po was curious about his background, who was his parent where he come from and how he was adopted by Mr. Ping. Po sad when Mr. Ping told that he was found behind Mr. Ping’s restaurant, but he was raised by Mr. Ping with a bulk of love. It may doesn’t have by others even they have a real parents. Like Lord Shen, because of his greediness and revenge, we lost his parents even he had power. It is important for us to live our life with appreciation. Anything can be lost, but if we able to appreciate everything we have, each losing will become a good memory. Even Po lost his parents, now he has a good father, Mr. Ping.

            This movie show many sense of affection. Po has good friend, super-duper lovely father, great Shifu and love by all people around him. His friend always beside him in whatever situation he is. Always together in achieve their mission and task. Helping each other during battle and never leave each other alone. He also has great father who always care about him. Mr. Ping really worried when Po said he had to go for save the Master of Gongmen City, Thundering Rhino. He packed a food and necessary things for him. This is how Mr. Ping shows his affection toward his son. People around him really impressed with him and children really love him. Po also has a good sense with the children and it can be seen when he kiss the child that waited for him at his father’s restaurant. 

As stated by his father, “Oh, Po, your story may not have such a happy beginning, but look how it turned out. You got me, you got kung fu, and you got noodles! “. Past doesn’t make who we are, we are the responsible one to choose what we are. Even though he is just a clumsy and flustered panda at first but he has a big dream to become kung fu master. He chooses to be a great and finally he able to do it. In addition, he was adopted by a goose, left by his parent but it is not the end of his life. He is able to get a better life now with his foster father, friends and his Master Shifu. I think it is one of the great lessons from this movie. From this, we know that everybody have chance to be better, great and achieve what we want even we were not from a good family background.

Life is the real teacher. After what Po was facing, fear of losing his real parents, happiness that he get from his foster father and courage in facing the fear he finally able to found his inner peace. It may be able to learn through class or learning from formal teacher but through our own life. Even though we might facing many difficulties and fear, but we are able to taste the real strength, happiness and peaceful behind it. This lesson cannot get if we are not encounter it. After we had all those pain and hardship, we will know what the real happiness is. It was what life told us.

In conclusion, everything in our life is a great moment. It is depending on us how to manage it, to face it and to adapt it. If we have a positive thinking, everything will be a good for us. Maybe not now, but in the future.

"To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate"- Abu Hamid al-Ghazali