A REWARDING MOMENT..

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.