Today Stfn asked me if whatever she was doing for the class, as the new teacher, was sufficient or she needed to do something more.
"And more important than that, I need to know if you are happy and comfortable with me. Your happiness and comfort is the only thing that I care about."
I loved her for this. I told her that she was being more than excellent and I could not have wished for more. " And it is surprising that I have been thinking the very same thing too about you, that, you should be happy and comfortable - everything else comes second. By the way, you have been amazing me and everybody else in the school by being incredulously active, energetic, sprightly and almost running around. I am sure nobody could say anything against you now. Not only this, you even look totally immersed in kids and kid's work!"
And I am genuinely happy for her. She visibly works hard for our morning lessons. Today she had purchased fresh fruits, vegetables and bread from the market which she showed to all the children and then we prepared a breakfast with the same. It was a lot of work and I was touched to see that was striving hard to keep up with the new standard that is now required of her. She indeed thinks it's all high and dry toil but what she doesn't know is that it is doing truck loads of good to her body and mind. When you are too comfortable at work it kills your talent, your drive and your challenge. You sort of fall in a state of torpor which you think is bliss but is actually the opposite. If you want to be a sharp knife, you have to keep cutting....
"All this running around gives me a bit of stress; maybe I should slow down.." She mused.
"Absolutely not." I cried vehemently. "Little stresses are good for us; they distract our minds away from the bigger stresses of life."
"And more important than that, I need to know if you are happy and comfortable with me. Your happiness and comfort is the only thing that I care about."
I loved her for this. I told her that she was being more than excellent and I could not have wished for more. " And it is surprising that I have been thinking the very same thing too about you, that, you should be happy and comfortable - everything else comes second. By the way, you have been amazing me and everybody else in the school by being incredulously active, energetic, sprightly and almost running around. I am sure nobody could say anything against you now. Not only this, you even look totally immersed in kids and kid's work!"
And I am genuinely happy for her. She visibly works hard for our morning lessons. Today she had purchased fresh fruits, vegetables and bread from the market which she showed to all the children and then we prepared a breakfast with the same. It was a lot of work and I was touched to see that was striving hard to keep up with the new standard that is now required of her. She indeed thinks it's all high and dry toil but what she doesn't know is that it is doing truck loads of good to her body and mind. When you are too comfortable at work it kills your talent, your drive and your challenge. You sort of fall in a state of torpor which you think is bliss but is actually the opposite. If you want to be a sharp knife, you have to keep cutting....
"All this running around gives me a bit of stress; maybe I should slow down.." She mused.
"Absolutely not." I cried vehemently. "Little stresses are good for us; they distract our minds away from the bigger stresses of life."
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