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Monday, May 23, 2011

A Lesson FROM A Kid


My mom is a teacher. She teaches Hindi and Marathi and takes tuitions at home. No doubt, she is an amazing teacher; she has got good students as well. One kid, who stands out from the rest is Trigya a.k.a Ric. He is a fourth grade kid, attends two tuitions where one of them is for the rest of the subjects other than Hindi and Marathi. And as he has both the tuitions sequentially lined up in his schedule, he leaves fifteen minutes early from my mom’s tuitions. As soon as he reaches home, he has a few snacks and then leaves for the other tuition which is just in the next building. So he used 2 get around ten minutes in between the two classes. As the building in which the next class is very close, Ric leaves at about five minutes to five-thirty. But as he reaches there, he’s already fifteen minutes late! The teacher shouts at him every day for the same reason. The other day, just as he was about to leave from my mom’s tuitions, he told us that the teacher shouts at him every day for being late.

 ‘So must be getting late because you watch television!’ my mom said.
‘No aunty! I leave my home for the next tuition ten minutes before time! But whenever I reach the tuition, it’s already fifteen minutes past five thirty!’
 
Obviously, it is not the kid’s mistake that the teacher’s clock is fifteen minutes fast! But he takes it all! And that too with such an amazing spirit! And this is what I learnt from him:
Whenever he does not agree with a particular something, spontaneously his hands, arrange themselves on the side of his head and flicks them as if letting off all d disagreeable things to go away from him! And oh yes! I have picked up that habit! Makes me feel a lot relaxed!
It’s just that we don’t notice, but kids teach us a lot. Just a bit of careful observation and you have discovered a new way to live life!

We all have been through that phase of life; we all have had different ways to handle different situations. But why is it that we have forgotten those tactics to live? The ways we used to let go off all the worries and only think about the solution and not the problem?

After reading this post, be sure to look for something in every kid that would make LIFE an easier question to you all!