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Good Looking and Good Thinking Teenager,
Is it Possible?
By aTeiLLa MirZa

It is understoodable when there is a hope imagining a teenager who has good looking and good thinking proportionally. This hope appears from the reality which shows that it is rare to find a teenager who has the two sides of charming; charming of intelligence and charming of performance. Although it is rare, it doesn’t mean that it is difficult to be reached. And the question is, what is the shortcut to be the dreaming teenager?

Good Thinking; Smart and Skillfull
There’s a common demand addressed to us as a student, as a member of community which accept any lessons in our school. We see that there’s something we must fulfill, as like standard of value in the national final examination. And certainly, every year, we must be able to reach a certain standard to enroll study at higher class. If we can’t reach it, we will be left out and we must repeat the academic period. These all are academical demand in cognitive field.

As a short, you must be a smart ones. You must give anything to fulfill this demand. Perhaps you must be a diligent, creative, good reader, hard worker finishing all of your tasks, and any other efforts. All of us has a different ways to reach the one destination. Beside academical demand, there is a social demand which obligate you to be a skillfull ones. When anyone ask you, in which class are you sitting now and you give an answer, automatically, he will consider that you have mastered a certain thing. For example, as a student in pesantren which have been there for about one year, everone will consider you as a good reader of Koran.

According to our growth, we also begin to find where is our interest, what is our talent, and what is our life’s goal. We begin to know them in this phase. And we will also start to make that goals and dreams come true. For example, we will have a routine training and look for a condusive community which support our goal. As a result, we begin to know what skill we have that it must be maintained and improved. So, beside in our class, we also train anything we like in other place.

So it is fair to say that adolescence phase is a phase where we study, try, and train anything considered as our concern or our intereset. We are demanded to be a multitalent and a versatile ones by the tittle we have, as a student who live in pesantren, for example. When we are involved in a discussion forum, we are demanded to get connection with the theme discussed. When anyone need our help, we are demanded to show our skill helping him. There is a common idea which consider that all of student have a more knowledge and more skill than another. And that is the demand we have.

Good Looking; Great Performance
In adolescence era, we have a will and ambition to perform ourselves in front of the public well and attractively. We need a consideration as a teenager and we want the show who we are. We are not longer a children which is dependent to another. We try to be our selves and entrust on our selves by performing our unique characteristic depend on our appetite. It is often happen an inimitation or modification of other’s performance which seen as a best performance. When we see that someone perform his best and it is suitable with the taste we have, it can be assured that there will be an imimtation process.

It is a logical consequence concerning with the biological phase namely puberty happen in this phase. We will think that we have a phisically charm that obligates us to improve it. We will spend many times in front of the mirror, giving a big attention to the clothes we wear and the accessoris we have, and starting indetify which is our best performance can be shown to other, especially to our heterosexual. We will do many efforts to be good looking, such as repairing our performance, going to salon, using cosmetic, tidying our performance, and any other things.

By your improving performance, people will consider you as a mature teenager who has a big attention to performance side. You will maintain performance you have or even improve it because that is your unique feature. You are known and famous with your unique performance. The choice is also started here. You will choose which performance you will have. You can choose to be a metallic man, to be a cool man, to be a tidy man, and any other. But, a social mileu ussually will give a bigger appreciaton to man which has tidy performance.

To be Proportional
This hope do appears from the conditions show that mostly, some teenager import performance side and forget their obligation as student in intelligence side. The minority is a teenager who is an academist and book hunter but he ignore the performance side. He don’t care about the performance and consider it as a thing can be ignored at all. They think that intelligence is everything so that anything else is not important. So it is easy to find a clever and smart man who is asocial, clumsy, an inflixible.

The majority is a student with the good performance, tidy clothes, bright face, and fragrant smell. They spend many times to have a good performances so that they often ignore the cognitive and intellectual side. They prefer to be in front of the mirror better than to be in library, for example. They will cancel a studyclub appointment if they must go to a salon. They will prefer buying cosmetic that spending money for book and academical need.

Ideally, a great performance comes from a smart thinking. And soon, smart thinking comes from a great performance. A smart ones will try to give anything best, in his thinking, in his characterism, and also in his performance. Depend on his good thinking, he think that it should be a proportional position between his brain and his face. He must be a smart and a handsome man. This also happen in another side, i.e someone with the good performance. It is fair to think that it will be a shame thing when there is handsome and good looking man with an empty brain. Someone who give the attention to the performance must want to be a perfect man. As a first step, maybe he will be repair the physical performance. But as a perfecsionist, he will try to get the other charming. It is uncomplete to be a handsome man with a bad thinking.

Life is choice. We have choosen one of the two charmings first. But in the next, we must try to posse the other charming. If we fell that we have been giving a big attention to the intelligence side, for example, we will start to have a great performance when we want to attract somenonelse’ attention. And soon, for us who import the performance side, busy to make over and show our phisycal charming, a certain moment will obligate us to concentrate anything ignored before, such as when the academical examination comes or we want to pass an academical test. At that time, we will stoop a couple bundleds of book and academical lesson.

Finally, the most important thing is a will to be proportional. We sholud be a smart and handsome man. They must be two things that accept a same attention to balance our inside and outside charming. This hope is not an impossible utopia. There are some examples of a man whose great intelligence and good performance. It is not a possible thing to be attendend, although it is not easy to be happened. Allah Knows Best