A Lunch Time Account...

This is one of my attempts in committing to a form of writing that so many before me have successfully accomplished...

I do not know that I will ever be able to commit myself to this literary experience, but I am hoping that God might be able to help me in this endeavor. First of all, I am not really expecting to have an enormous number of readers, i am only but expecting that i will be the only person on earth to read all of the accounts that i am currently writing. Anyways, I am only hoping for the best.

I am writing today to give an outlet to my thoughts which I believe could be a  good material for this endeavor.

Let us begin...

Earlier today, i was once again invited by some of my students to have lunch with them (and thus the title "a lunch time account" was born). Of course, as a teacher, I find this a very wonderful experience for i myself feel honored to be given that chance which some students do not normally do. In my experience before as a student, i have never even once, asked a teacher to come and have lunch with me and my classmates. The teachers have their own world and we have our own world as students. But, i am one of those few teachers to have been given that chance to have lunch with them. And because of this, i have once again recalled that being a teacher is not just happening inside the four walls of the classroom. it is happening beyond those hollowed halls. and outside those hollowed halls, you become much more than just a teacher, you actually become a friend, brother, parent, counselor, etc...

So this leads me now to the argument as to why teachers are the lowest paid professionals of all in the roster of professionals. This is my reason: teaching can never be a money-making venture because if it was a money-making venture, then it loses its value of being a profession moved by the heart. If it was inspired by money or profit, then authentic relationships can never be fully actualized.

I have to admit, i am not earning that much... but I am earning what others have striven to achieve in a lifetime, and that is a meaningful life as a teacher. And as I had lunch with my students earlier today, as well as those lunch breaks earlier during this semester, the laughter and stories shared together, proved to be much more than just eating your food during that designated hour.

p.s. sorry for the inconsistencies with the nominative case pronoun "I". Not all are in the uppercase, and thus proves my laziness... hehe

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