REFLECTIVE JOURNAL (ENTRY 2)

MUHAMMAD ANAS BIN ABDUL MALEK 

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May peace be upon you.

I'm Anas and today I would like to share my stories about my reflection on one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals that I have experienced throughout my life. This reflection will be focusing on "Life Below Water", which is the 14th SDGs. First of all, this story is about me practicing the act of reducing plastic usage in my life consistently as this problem keeps growing up and haunts as in many aspects of life.

Before this practice's journey started, I have predicted some of the cases and challenges will pass across my path to consistently doing this thing while at my home or outside. Apparently, I expected there may be some challenges like a lack of consistency in doing this thing, not having a support from other persons due to lack of awareness towards this issue and also alternative options that may be not as effective as the main option. Because of that, I have prepared myself early by set up my mindset, prepare the talk and evidences that will help me to convince others to understand that our issues are critical and also do a research about some of the good alternative options that will benefit me later on in my life rather than using plastic.

After that, thankfully all of that preparation really paid me off with a great result as I able to overcame all the challenges that I have expected before this journey even started. I don't think there is anything I could do better than what I have done in this journey as I have been reducing 70% of the plastic types like straws`, plastic bags and much more but one thing I might regret is not doing this early enough. This practical taught me many things such as to be consistent and persistent in order to gain a better future in life by taking a good care of this environment.

Next, I am feeling proud and much of relieved every time I have done something that will become a beneficial thing for the environment itself as I getting more excited to make this attitude sustain. On top of that, I really appreciated those people who are stand by me and keep motivated me in doing this good deeds and that makes me feel I could do any better even there is similar event as I think this practical was absolutely on top, because of I am not just trying to sustain the life below water but also I get to learn many new things such as the tips that might be simple but could save the thousand of lives.