It was my mistake!

I was in dilemma. Being socially active person I had to meet elderly, highly reputed persons of the society and according to social norms taught by our senior colleagues I got habituated to wish them by folding hands in “namaskar mudra”. Due to this new habit I forgot to wish elders by touching toe. Whenever I am visiting Navodaya, I am wishing by touching toe to those teachers who had taught me, but I am just wishing by folding hands in “namaskar mudra” to others.  Always my conscious knocks me to bend and touch toes of all the teachers, but habit overcomes that calling and I always repeated that mistake. Today when Ankit told me about the gossips going on in the school about this observation made by the students, I felt my mistake. All teachers who taught me or not taught me deserve the same respect. Anyway at this junction all the teachers are elder to me and most of time they all are in the same age group and hence they deserve same treatment. Such behavior will bring affection to me in return

Silent Appraisal

Many years passed when I thought about making schools more effective in transmitting better education to children and I also carved out ways to keep school teachers motivated towards their commitment for shaping the future of children. On those days I used to think, teachers should be invited in family functions and should be given due respect. Those are the days when I used to be prominent figure of alumni program of my school. Later I became passive towards school affairs became obsessed with my social initiatives.

But I kept going schools occasionally and stayed in touch with teachers. As my own nephew is now studying in that school, some teachers also get attached to my brother-in-law. This is the time when teachers were also aware about my marriage proposals and other proceedings and naturally they all were expecting marriage invitation from my side. Naturally I did that. Taking out time from my busy schedule, I personally went there and offered my marriage invitation to all the teachers and also took promise from a teacher to coordinate with them. On the marriage day I also arranged a vehicle for them. I did all these unconsciously without thinking their impact.

But when a teacher mentioned about this event and expressed how all the teachers became proud of their profession after being honored by their students, it suddenly realized that my action was in line with my own thought. He simply mentioned that all became motivated towards their profession.