You can’t know where your going if you don’t know where you’ve been. As
I continue to search for where the “next step” in my life will begin, meaning
where I’ll get my first teaching job, I reflect on where I’ve been.
When
I think back I’ve been in a classroom, as a student, and as a teacher. I taught
kindergartners how to write their names and spell their color words, and I
taught seventh graders how to work together with their peers, friends and foes.
You may not know that I was given a great opportunity to finish out a quarter
teaching seventh grade science at Lamar Middle School. It was an awesome
experience getting to work along side with many of my past teachers as well as
teaching in the same classroom where my father was for 20ish years. Seventh
graders although not much different from kindergartners, except maybe the
hormones, taught me several life lessons as well.
People
want to feel loved. This is something that I ran into in both grades. And
children, as well as some adults, will act out and manipulate to get the
desired attention, no matter the cost. Why has it become human nature to want
others to hurt when we hurt, to want others to be humiliated when we ourselves
have been humiliated? I don’t get it. The Golden Rule: Do unto others, as you
would have them do unto you. Has as much president today as it did when it was
created. Yet this rule continually looked over. This is crazy to me because it
is the foundation for Peace.
-Take selfishness and turn it into selflessness.
-Think about others before yourself.
I challenge you to live by the Golden Rule for a week and see how much
better you life is, then do it the next week and the week after and so on…