AT THEIR AGE, WE WERE WORSE
Pic.: Aruna Anand W hat I like the most about this world is that it is imperfect! There is a lot of hope and peace in this truth! Every time I yell at my young students - over their bunking, late-coming, homework-skipping and, above all, over their casual, don’t-care attitude towards studies, yes, every time I lose my head over all this… right in the midst of my agony comes this thought: “Relax my friend… Relax. At their age, you were worse!” Yes, I was… And, this truth is enough to bring forth peace in my turmoil-stricken heart… M ost of us forget how bad we were, once… How imperfect! Treating the other person as a learning, growing and an evolving human being, just as I am, is a very important understanding, which I need to reinforce in me time and again. What actually happens is, that, as we learn, grow and evolve in life, we coolly forget that people around us, too, do… So, we look at our subordinates, children, students and the rest… and...