One thing I have been doing all along is never worry about future and never feel happy or sad about the past. I always believed that better things are in store for the future. It is just the same when I thought I would start my practice. I believed everything around me is rosy and I could just rock on with it. It was in fact rosy I should say but things didn't work out as desired. Now few months into practice, I'm yet have one full fledged assignment, but still I'm upbeat about my prospects. But what has happened over this period is not what I planned or wished to. But eventually it has happened. As I never say NO to what I can possibly do, I'm where I'm today. It was these small YES for training programmes that began. I believed that I don't have it in me to make a great teacher or trainer. Teaching is such a noble profession. Though my mother is a teacher, I thought I never had qualities to be a great teacher. First of all I lack patience, which is greatest quality of a teacher. Then I thought I was too young to be able to teach and for people to appreciate what I convey. But over past few months, it was happening otherwise. There were quite a few opportunities on teaching front came up and I accepted it. To my dismay, all such programmes were reasonably appreciated.
Today it further proved me wrong. I felt little proud about teaching today. And I begin to embrace teaching to be essential part of my career today. The reason was my training programme at Ethiraj College for faculty members. I feel I graduated today as a speaker. I spoke on the topic given to me and at the end of 2 hours, it was immensely gratifying when one of the faculty members said, it was exactly matching their level of knowledge and it was additional learning that they could appreciate. Why it meant so much to me was, it was a group of teachers who are in the profession of teaching for years and when I get such feedback from them, it was definitely great for me. After the session, even before the feedback I received, I knew today will be a significant day. It was just that gut feeling. And today means a lot to me. But still I don't want to be a teacher. After all these session I feel that I'm well versed on my subject today (according to me) only because of the amount of teaching/training that has happened and I should be happy for that. Also there was one more lesson today - Your best is yet to come.
Today it further proved me wrong. I felt little proud about teaching today. And I begin to embrace teaching to be essential part of my career today. The reason was my training programme at Ethiraj College for faculty members. I feel I graduated today as a speaker. I spoke on the topic given to me and at the end of 2 hours, it was immensely gratifying when one of the faculty members said, it was exactly matching their level of knowledge and it was additional learning that they could appreciate. Why it meant so much to me was, it was a group of teachers who are in the profession of teaching for years and when I get such feedback from them, it was definitely great for me. After the session, even before the feedback I received, I knew today will be a significant day. It was just that gut feeling. And today means a lot to me. But still I don't want to be a teacher. After all these session I feel that I'm well versed on my subject today (according to me) only because of the amount of teaching/training that has happened and I should be happy for that. Also there was one more lesson today - Your best is yet to come.
