Hi dear readers! Thankyou for your love on my previous blogs. Today I want to ask you all a question and that is how should be the relationship between a teacher and his/her students? My relationship with my teachers has always been very serious. They came in class they taught I did my work and that's it. But with the changing scenarios shouldn't there be any change in the relationship? I was a teacher last year that too in a boys school.  Terrified that how will the students treat me I walked in class 12th. I was greeted well. The boys were all good, even the notorious ones. They all respected me. When I started teaching them I tried to make them understand by giving examples from daily life with adding humor onto it. This made them comfortable with me and after a week or so they got so comfortable and trusted me so much that they even opened up to me about their personal issues. Issues that we usually associate with girls. And this shocked me to the core. Their experiences kept me awake at night. 

Even the students from junior classes told me so many things that happened to them or to somebody they knew. And after telling all those things to me they even thanked me for listening to them. They said that they feel like a burden is lifted from their chest. 

But it kept awake for nights. During days when I would sit in staff room I would observe how other teachers talk to their students. Every thing was about their particular subject. But why don't we think about what their lives could be? With so many saddening stories depressing me I decided to confide in my friend. But with his reaction everything changed. He rebuked me for telling him such things. Also he told me that I shouldn't be so comfortable around my students that they tell me all those happening about them. He said I am a teacher and should behave like one. That hurt me a lot. If by anyway I help my students then where am I wrong? I taught them, listened to them, just like us they are human beings too. So where am I wrong? The stories my students told me still haunts me that nobody is safe. No girl no boy. But still where was I wrong?