As a teacher my experience with children has been eye-opening, enlightening, immensely pleasurable and to my great surprise even knowledgeable! As many others, I entered the profession with many wrong notions such as I am going to be the one to impart knowledge, to make them learn etc and so on……….But I soon realized that they had many things to discover, to tell, even teach me. All they need is the opportunity and space so that they can open their tiny wings and fly into the open sky…………We adults have much to learn from them, if we just allow ourselves to open our mind’s eye.

They are truly creative, imaginative, they are observers, explorers, discoverers, they are spiritual, lovers of nature and all its beauty, all its creatures. They are honest, straightforward, spontaneous and always positive in their outlook. All the qualities that I can think of when I think of children are the ones that we adults aspire to have.

I have found that through children I too can become spiritual, I can come closer to nature, I can become a better person. Through them I can rediscover and relive my childhood.

From them I have learned to look at everyday as a fresh start, as a new experience, as an opportunity to find different paths, and meet different people. I have also learned to trust and not be skeptical all the time, to take things at face value, to admire and not envy people better than me.

I have learned not to categorize people into caste, class, race, religion, locality and country. And the most important lesson that I have learned is to love my work, do it with sincerity and to be myself.

Finally after all this learning I found the secret key to being a happy person. Happiness is not something you wait for, to happen to you. You run and grab it and then you possess it. Just like those tiny little angels!!