Ever thought some situations we're made to go through as unnecessary or avoidable? I've been thinking how certain things in life we have no control over. Things like the need to sleep, eat and many others - a bunch of things we are just compelled to follow as nature takes its course. But there are others where its course depends on the choices we make as human beings and we're later needed to live by its consequences.
Among the latter itself, there are things which goes out of our control despite us feeling we're the captain of our ship. True enough, the captain has one of the biggest responsibilities; but reaching a destination isn't only dependent on the captain. The waves and the wind could play a role in deciding the ship's course. And in such a situation, the captain is demanded to test his ability to win over nature. So we're not so much of the captain, are we?
I'm sitting by a high rise building next to a swimming pool, allowing the sun to shed some of its vitamin D on me and the breeze to take me into relax mode. It's been some time to be in some place and not doing anything. Technically, I want to do a whole lot of things and get busy but I didn't carry any of my work materials on this trip, neither did I bring my computer. So being useless and getting carried away is what I'm here to do.
I've just returned from a 5-day seminar where people from 12 different countries came together to talk about systematizing spiritual education for children. How as teachers, we make a whole lot of impact on the lives of the children and how we teachers, unknowingly, could make more of a positive impact on our own lives. There is no limit to anything. I guess it's a question of whether we are doing enough for the children and/or are we really striving for excellence when we think of being there for them and giving the utmost.
I've just come to realize how much each of us is a teacher in our own way. Every word and every act has the potential to teach, to transform a heart, to open a soul. Many of us say we're not good teachers; I'm starting to believe there is no such thing. And all of us could be amazing teachers. We have to learn to see ourselves as tools and instruments that allow another human being to explore concepts and mysteries of life directly and/or indirectly.
"Regard man as a mine rich in gems of inestimable value. Education can, alone, cause it to reveal its treasures, and enable mankind to benefit therefrom."
