Everyone was surprised and
mostly thought that I was stupid in leaving my career as an engineer which
quite frankly was flourishing and instead opting to become a teacher. But I
knew what I wanted and why I wanted it, I wasn’t satisfied fixing machines,
going over silly user manuals etc I wanted to mold something more than just a
wire. I wanted to change the course of someone’s life. I know that sounds
extremely manipulative but I mean it in a perfectly positive sense. I wanted to
make a difference for my community, my society, my country. The best way to do
that was to take up education as a profession. I’ have already marked my course
and I am all set for the journey in fact my ship has already left the port. The
journey so far has been neither too smooth nor too rough. Recently, I have been
a little lost for my cause thinking that there are no rewarding moments but was
I wrong indeed. I was blessed with the most rewarding of moments ever. I had
taught English last year to grade five sadly, I am not able to teach it again
this year even though I have personally started feeling I am a better English
teacher than a mathematics one. Anyway, one of my colleagues came up to me with
a book in hand. It belonged to one of my former students’ , she had written a
composition on the person she admired most. ME!! Sigh ! Rewarding moment
indeed. What she had written simply made my day beautiful, the way she expressed
her feelings for me not just as a teacher but as a person too. The essence of
her writing is something similar to what follows;
“… she is not just a wonderful
teacher but also a very nice human being. She puts others first and goes out of
her way to make us become better people. May Allah bless her.”
This work from a very young
girl made it clear that I had made the right decision, this was what I wanted
to do, make better humans. Steer the lives of at least one child into a
positive direction. What I am thankful for is that this rewarding moment came
at a time when I desperately needed it. When I was feeling like maybe I had
made the wrong decision for myself.
Out of all what I have
written, I can just conclude that no profession is better or worse than
another. Whatever we choose to become, we should do so with a conscious mind
and heart and this is what we should teach our children as well. Loving what
you do is more important than just doing something. If I would have been
pursuing engineer even now, I would have just been a mediocre engineer and I
wouldn’t probably have had this wonderful moment then.
