Students as Teachers' Reflection

     To stand in front of students is a great honor that  teachers can have. This opportunity completes the fullness of being teachers. Teachers become teachers because there are students.However, there is something unique in teaching. Often, teachers do not only see what the students' future might be, but also, the reflection of their own future. TEACHERS OWN FUTURE. Some young and carefree  students  might not give so much thoughts about the teachers' daily gospels and may look at them as the same nagging words they heard from their homes. As part of teenagers' defiant nature, they may resist and totally deny them. The rebellious and defiant nature is surely brought by raging hormones of physiological growth. The same hormones experienced by teachers many decades ago. Infact, both teachers and students experience exactly same battles, only at different periods. No one has ever been exempted in engaging into these struggles of growth. All have to pass this stage because this is  the dynamics of life. With these dynamics, life is indeed a battle to beat or to enjoy.

      Dynamics are processes which all generations have been created and bounded to pursue. They are processes that are interrelated and can not be broken. One unique aspects of dynamics is the reality of cause and effect. What has been molded, built and created today,  will become the realities and the pictures of tomorrow. Considering this principle of dynamics, the students whom  teachers are administering today will become the agents to continue what is being done in the coming years. If something goes wrong within the process of building, the effect will be seen later. There is no available options that will offer every generation the things it wants to take or trash those that it does not want to embrace. Things, events and situations will manifest as they are, depending on how they were or are processed. There is no escape.

     In the end, we, as today's generation of teachers are doing our vocations to the best we can,  to be sure that the wonderful world and life that had been won by our fore parents will continue to flourish so that next generation will savour the fullness of  rights for an ideal place to live with dignity. Time will pass and so our time. We will grow old, retire and expire. Our students will mature and will leave the teen stage of life. Together with the passing time is the expectation that both we, the teachers and they, the students,  must  accomplish the roles and responsibilities expected. This reality is now in the process of transition from us to our students. The transition is often hard and difficult. Conflict, rejection, insult as well as acceptance, support and affirmation are inevitable. They are all part of the awesome package called LIFE.  Life is a school that offers free learning and its lessons are maybe harsh and painful or adorable and inspiring. Most of the time, the wealth of its wisdom is hidden and only the persevering souls discover them. That is why, it is a luxury given to the chosen few. As one of many teachers around the world, my daily prayer is:" LORD, TODAY HELP ME MAKE A REFLECTION THAT IS ACCEPTABLE TO YOU."