Friends, I am really grateful to you for all the love that you have shown to my writings. Today, I would like to share some personal feelings with you.

I am a teacher , not because I loved the profession, I was almost forced into it to meet my necessities. I was considered a very good student both at my school and college. My results were also encouraging and I believe there was a sense of pride that had crept into me which had me obstinate to many things. There was a supremacist feeling in me, I admit. But destiny had its own say. My business crashed, my friends left me and even many of my own people left me. I was so much shaken that I had to leave my own dear city and come down to a totally new city. Even today I remember when I landed in Kolkata, with me I had my wife, two very young children and two bags with only rupees two thousand left to support my family.

This fall really brought me totally down to earth. Here I don't want to bore you with  the struggle of my life but I would rather tell you a few things that I learnt from my students during my course as a teacher.(I was forced to take up this job as I didn't get any other). Let me also make it clear that my wife and my children have all along been very supportive to me. I also have nothing against those who ignored me after my failures. So let me now put down a few things that I have learnt from my students and not from my schooling.

Humility:

While teaching students about why they should always have humility in them, I realized that it is the very quality I lacked and had been rude to many during my good days. This helped me to tone down some of my arrogance and that has really made me a happier man.

Being patient:

While dealing with students, for the first time I understood that everyone cannot understand the same thing at the same pace. As a teacher I needed to reach out to them, understand their problems, their confusions and only then I could be of any help to them. As the job could not have been accomplished overnight, so I had to be patient. this patience not only helped me to become a better teacher, but has also helped to understand myself and the people around me better. 

Accept failures:

Many a times I had to console many students when they failed in competitive exams. At that time I also realized that though I too had failed many times in my business, but my problems compounded only because I couldn't accept the failures as it was hurting my ego. As a consequence today when even my children fail in any discipline, I just tell them to accept it gracefully and move ahead with a new goal.

Sharing true love:

This is the greatest lesson that I have learnt from my students. Today I believe with utmost certainty that a teacher cannot be of any help to the students unless and until they love the students in true sense. It is the love of the teacher that builds a sense of faith about the teacher in the student and then the student follows the teacher's instructions and finally starts learning what the teacher teaches them.

So friends, In this writing I have tried to be as sincere as possible to all my students who have ushered so much love and gratitude for me. Many of them may never know how much they have taught me about life . But as a small token of love and gratitude towards them I am presenting these little thoughts of my heart . (It sounds weird but for a moment let us think from our hearts).

                                           …Anupam