The joy of teacher

A teacher is true to his profession when he/she helps his/her learners widen the horizons of their lives. A teacher who derives pleasure by accelerating the learners’ progress has achieved the charm of his/her profession. Every moment of a teacher’s life must be a pill of inspiration and new vision to the learners. He/she ought to be a constant source of motivation and new light for others. Therefore, a lot of hard work on the part of the teacher is a pre-requisite to brace himself/herself as an instiller of the love of learning and wisdom.

We will say that a teacher has done justice to his/her profession when that teacher’s students cross beyond their teacher’s highest expected limits. And the best time comes to the teacher when the teacher himself/herself gets utterly amazed at the stupendous success of his/her learners.   

406kms/10hrs 40 min

The morning was cloudy and it was 6.20am. I ignited my bike engine and saw the initial reading to be 22,135kms on the speedometer. Before I passed the forest check gate that marks the end of Govindapally village, I had offered around Rs 250/- as a way of Dussera Tips to the village lineman, the paper hawker, the washer-man, the hotel boy, etc. They were all so happy. In response to the tips, I was abundantly returned by their smiling gestures.

I went cutting through the moist and cold atmosphere with a heavy-bag tightly fastened to the edges of my bike. The road that passes through the districts of Malkangiri, Koraput, Rayagada and Kandhamal is fully damaged and is completely worn-out.However, I had decided to reach home before 5pm. I drove the bike steadfastly without any delay on the way. Even I sacrificed the joy of entering into a well-to-do restaurant for my breakfast. It was because I wanted to save time. So the best alternative was to take my breakfast standing in one of the road-side makeshift hotels. I ate like Kumbhakarna but surprisingly, I was billed a modest amount of Rs 30/-. My eating binge did not stop here. On my way I drank green coconut water, 7 bananas, one big-sized chocolate, 2 coconut stuffed cakes, a small packet of mixture, grape juice and my lunch at Baliguda. And when I saw my speedometer at home, I found the reading 22,541kms. I had covered 406 kilometers in 10 hours 40 minutes.

After my safe reach I was deliriously happy because of the following reasons.

* I was amazed at my own capability to undertake such a strenuous long journey all alone.

* I showed an accurate time sense and I could fulfill my wish to reach home safely by 5pm.

* I suffered no puncture, no harsh weather, no breakdown of the machine and no accident.

* I drove safely and completed the journey without any dependence on tea (During the journey I had not taken tea).

After-effect of movies

If you do not stand for ANYTHING, you shall fall for EVERYTHING- This was the very line which went on scrolling on my mental screen all this evening. This was the essence which I derived after viewing a few Hollywood films. In the rapid action of the movies, the super heroes stirred a passion in me for a moral way of living. The influences may be short-lived or may lead to a wild fantasy but I enjoyed them because they added another hitherto undiscovered dimension to life’s journey. This dimension of life makes life dance with the tunes of imagination and abounding possibilities. In a nut shell, it helps stretch the imagination creating another world above our mundane existence.

Breathing in the breeze of heaven

It was morning 5 o’ clock. The young man opened the door and saw the morning spreading its soft golden colours in the blue sky. The icy cold wind touched his body and calmed the mind. And the two gleaming eyes of the young man slowly got closed while he inhaled the fresh air into his lungs. The day shined in the east horizon with heavenly peace, promises and hopes.

All the cells of his body got charged with a promising vitality of a life beautiful and then the young man wore his uniform and headed to his workplace…………….

It was the month of October and the earth was changing the season. With Dussera in the air, the activities of the market place had been doubled and the wide inviting smiles of the shopkeepers used to go in tandem with their brightly decorated shops. The ecstasy and festival were around the corner and the green paddy fields had added brilliant colours to life. Life was as fresh as that wintery morning air which the young man was breathing in. And the effect was lasting in the young man.

At his workplace one of his colleagues asked, “Hey dear! What’s up?  You look so divine and charming!” The young man smartly and smilingly responded, “In the morning I turned into an angel after I breathed in the breeze of heaven. And the heaven is just in front of your door but to see it you have to get up early.” With these words the young man walked away smilingly and gleefully waving his hands to the colleague but his colleague could not make out any sense because he was slumbering in the thickness of his blanket till 8 am.

LIFE HAS MANY INNOCENT JOYS BUT WE MISS THEM BECAUSE WE THICKLY COVER OURSELVES IN THE COZY COCOON OF ‘I, ME, AND MYSELF’.

A Sunny Morning

Talent plays a vital role in shaping life but will-power is another powerful component that helps an individual draw the best in him/her. Both talent and will-power develop by means of continuous effort. Each moment of life brings forth a variety of choices or options before an individual. In life’s journey every individual has some freedom to make a conscious choice. And his choices determine his/her worth in the long run. When someone is insightful & perceptive to the fundamental principles of morality, he/she spontaneously draws a deeper respect from his fellow human beings and achieves greater influence as an agent of social change.

Anna Hazare can be a recent example of such will-power that blends with morality and capably demonstrates the deep influences of morality on general consciousness of present society. Apart from Anna, if the teaching community, who works in schools and colleges, devotes a little effort to instill a general sense of morality among the learners, then within 15 years, the society will see a sunny morning of general happiness.