"God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches you by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly - not one." ~ Rumi
Its day four of the Meditation and fasting challenge. Am learning that connecting to life in every form every day is to be a good student, and that nothing in life ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know. I have always wanted to be a teacher even when I said I would be a Doctor. Since I can remember, I have always pretended I was speaking to a classroom. When I was 17 I spent the afternoons during school holidays revising by using the chalkboard we had at home. I would pretend there were students in the audience and just go on and on. Faythe, my elder sister thought I was weird. I still do this to this day, it really does help with revision, maybe I just love hearing my own voice and this may just come in handy in teaching.
Its day four of the Meditation and fasting challenge. Am learning that connecting to life in every form every day is to be a good student, and that nothing in life ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know. I have always wanted to be a teacher even when I said I would be a Doctor. Since I can remember, I have always pretended I was speaking to a classroom. When I was 17 I spent the afternoons during school holidays revising by using the chalkboard we had at home. I would pretend there were students in the audience and just go on and on. Faythe, my elder sister thought I was weird. I still do this to this day, it really does help with revision, maybe I just love hearing my own voice and this may just come in handy in teaching.
I can be impatient, and have thought this as a negative to my teaching career dreams. I want to learn to be patient. I want to be aware of who I am and what I can do. I want to be authentic. For it is only when I am authentic, that I can share myself and my experiences. It seems to me that being a teacher means to continually be open to learn new things, just like a curious child as Albert Einstein said, “Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before Great Mystery into which we were born.”
That nothing in my life is taken for granted and there are lessons in every aspect of life, in plants and animals even those ones I can’t stand. This week I will be trying to find lessons from life around me -even from the cats that sit in front of my building doing nothing but sleeping- appreciating the gifts I have been given and busk in the joy of knowing my dreams will come true.
That nothing in my life is taken for granted and there are lessons in every aspect of life, in plants and animals even those ones I can’t stand. This week I will be trying to find lessons from life around me -even from the cats that sit in front of my building doing nothing but sleeping- appreciating the gifts I have been given and busk in the joy of knowing my dreams will come true.
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