Sunday, February 12, 2006
Boomerang of love
I adapted this boomberang theory from a classmate.
"Love is like a boomerang. If you throw out ya love, it will return to you one day." When it will return doesn't matter, but rest assured that it will. Cos God is fair. If you show love, God will show you 10 times more love!
Take it in terms of teaching.
All students, regardless of how rotten they might be, have their good points. We need to focus on these good points in order not to colour our perception of them. Only then can we love them. Humans are sensitive creatures. God created us in His image, and He is a God of LOVE! So of course we can feel and experience love and show love!
If we throw out our boomerang of love to our students each day, they will feel it, and somehow or other, this boomerang will return to you, in some form or another. But of course, dun just be too obsessed on when and how this boomerang will return lah... (or else our heads might just get chopped off by the boomerang and we won't even notice it!)
Let us endure and rejoice in the PROCESS of this throwing of the boomerang of love to our students. Let us rejoice in the FINAL PRODUCT of our love, that is, the growth of our students due to our love and persistence. Let us take an interest in them. Let us be genuine towards them. Cos only with sincerity will the boomerang go far. That's why we joined the teaching profession rite? To "mould the future", to touch and influence lives, to "make a difference", etc. Sounds cheesy, but these are reasons why I joined teaching. (Of course, other than the perceived fun lah!)
As long as our focus is on the positive development and growth of our students, we will not go astray. A tip which was shared in class... We can change our perspective towards the seemingly endless and unnecessary admin work by viewing it as being useful to our understanding of the students. For example, being informed about their attendance, background and progress. Then at least we see a purpose in admin work and won't regard it too much of a chore! How useful it is... well, no harm trying rite? Heh.
Will anyone die from too much love? Hmm...
"Love is like a boomerang. If you throw out ya love, it will return to you one day." When it will return doesn't matter, but rest assured that it will. Cos God is fair. If you show love, God will show you 10 times more love!
Take it in terms of teaching.
All students, regardless of how rotten they might be, have their good points. We need to focus on these good points in order not to colour our perception of them. Only then can we love them. Humans are sensitive creatures. God created us in His image, and He is a God of LOVE! So of course we can feel and experience love and show love!
If we throw out our boomerang of love to our students each day, they will feel it, and somehow or other, this boomerang will return to you, in some form or another. But of course, dun just be too obsessed on when and how this boomerang will return lah... (or else our heads might just get chopped off by the boomerang and we won't even notice it!)
Let us endure and rejoice in the PROCESS of this throwing of the boomerang of love to our students. Let us rejoice in the FINAL PRODUCT of our love, that is, the growth of our students due to our love and persistence. Let us take an interest in them. Let us be genuine towards them. Cos only with sincerity will the boomerang go far. That's why we joined the teaching profession rite? To "mould the future", to touch and influence lives, to "make a difference", etc. Sounds cheesy, but these are reasons why I joined teaching. (Of course, other than the perceived fun lah!)
As long as our focus is on the positive development and growth of our students, we will not go astray. A tip which was shared in class... We can change our perspective towards the seemingly endless and unnecessary admin work by viewing it as being useful to our understanding of the students. For example, being informed about their attendance, background and progress. Then at least we see a purpose in admin work and won't regard it too much of a chore! How useful it is... well, no harm trying rite? Heh.
Will anyone die from too much love? Hmm...
# posted by Banana Saviour @ 3:14 AM 
