This happened when I was in the 8th std. I was very excited to start the new chapter of my life in secondary school. On the first day, I was talking to my seniors about teachers, extracurricular and sports activities to get a better idea of what’s to come. I was told that one of our teachers, Ms. Daksha, was very strict and students need to be very careful around her. I felt the fear settle inside me about the teacher. I went ahead and told this to my other friends. In no time, the whole class had the impression that Ms. Daksha (whom we had not even met) is very strict and we need to be careful around her.
During Daksha ma’am class, the whole class was silent and in constant fear of her actions. We could not learn much in our fearful mindset, we never asked our doubts.
Days passed, and we did not observe anything unusual about ma’am. So one day, we gathered all our strength and decided to ask our doubts to her. To our surprise, she was very nice and helpful. We realised that she is very strict only about the homework. We found that she was a wonderful teacher and did nothing that we should be afraid of. It took a while for us to see the reality from underneath our presumptions.
We were young kids then, and it was a valuable lesson I had learnt.
If I have to draw a parallel, our approach towards surviving this pandemic needs to be based on reality and not on our fear created,originated from hearsay or assumptions.
Let’s stick to nature, our natural instincts and intelligences rather than making choices instilled by fear, prejudice or ignorance.
We need to start living a new normal life. We need to teach our children how not to succumb to our fear, see the reality and face the situations to our best capabilities.
“F-E-A-R: has two meanings: Forget Everything And Run or Face Everything And Rise. The choice is yours.” — Zig Ziglar
Post written by Chaitali Shroff,Co-founder, Holistic Education and Adaptive Learning(HEAL) Foundation
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