Greatest Teacher

By S Gokul Kumar

Teachers are our greatest treasures. We all know we celebrate teachers’ day on 5th of September every year. Since, we are running through sweet September, let us discuss about some of the greatest teachers of all time.

When we speak of greatest teachers, we all would think of Dr. Radhakrishnan, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam or someone from whom we always get inspired. Undeniably, they are the greatest of the greatest, but my question is, have we ever appreciated the teacher who is always with us. Apparently, we all are purblind as we all fail to identify the mightiest of all in giving lessons. Undeniably, it is life and its experiences which stands as the tutor of all times.

Life bombards us with a lot of interesting factors including euphoric experiences, challenges and it also makes us travel along with many people at different points of our life. Great people used to say ‘Accept people as they are’. But we misconceive this and accept life as they are by practising a fatalistic approach. In reality, ‘most of us live our life by chance rather than choice’. On this note, it is important to know that the only key to reaching the gateway of success is by understanding the difference between living and surviving and making choices to live your life to the fullest.

We usually hear people saying that they struggle a lot and many times they fail a lot more than they succeed. Peeps, life is not a freedom movement to struggle rather it’s just a great companion which gives us a lot of exposure. According to me, failures make you stronger in different aspects and it only pushes us down only when we fail to transform the failures into stepping stones.

Life never fails to teach us. It is us who refuse to take up these lessons. On this day let us all start approaching life in a different way which would help us to lead a good and delightful life.

By S Gokul Kumar