What I am Grateful for....
I always thought that I knew the answer to this question, but recently I am coming to the realization that I don't. I would rather like to change the question too, what should I be grateful for, especially in these times we are living in.
The year is 2018 and whenever you put on the television and switch the channel to anything more current than series, you will see a topic arise. All over the world things are falling apart and it is quite depressing. When you switch to a more local channel these things do not become better. They become worse....
You see I live in South Africa, and I am White but... I was born after 1994. The last part does not really matter because just for the fact that I am white already makes me part of the apartheids movement.
Again, that has nothing to do with anything, because there is only one idiot that is still making this a problem. The thing I would like to get to be being grateful... Must I be grateful to be alive, having food to eat, being able to go to my job each day, because some people in my country do not have these "luxuries" to be grateful for. Then there is the other things that would come to mind when the word grateful comes up... like Health, money, family, being able to dream, achieving dreams, friends and lovers.
In this land you must be grateful for what you have, and you must sometime forget the things you don't but want.
I am a teacher and in my profession which I studied four years for, it is important to not only learn learners the content of your curriculum, but you must learn them to dream.
How do I teach learners how to dream, when sooner or later there would be nothing wort dreaming for? To answer the title, I am grateful for right now, being able to sit here and write this and contemplate this question in my head. We would all like to have the answer to all the questions in the world, but most of the time it is these questions that create all the problems…
Sometimes we just must leave things and be. Be one with yourself and the tings around you.
