By: JOMARIE ALEX A. GUINITA

Teaching is a life-long process. Each and every day, as we live though life in this world we encounter a lot and somehow learn from it and store it to become better experiences. Learning, we acquire this in circumstances that we going through every day, it could be in a form of triumph or defeat they may call. However, there are also times that we are unmindful but are already leaning from it and this may be referred to as joy.

Teaching has been an avenue for me to educated, inspire and touch the lives of young individuals. This profession gives me an open horizon to experiment and learn on the other side. Day by day, the experiences that I have are inevitable and the possibilities of growing are endless. I can once recall that entering the field of teaching was never in my list of becoming to be when I was still young. But, as time passes by my heart has been called to be in this profession. The norms of being a teacher has reached the pedestal since then, so this give me the burden for extend the limits my abilities and strive to become the best of what I am becoming.

In the last 4 years of my life after graduating, I have tried to escape from this reality.  I worked in another field to find the comfort of my career. Funny it may seem but, I have become a living testimony of “Your heart seeks to where it belongs” so then I become a teacher again after almost a year of being lost.

The challenge is up again, and I am like in the wilderness entering another environment that I am unfamiliar of but the only light that guides me is the joy and the desire of my heart to educated, inspire and touch lives. At some point, I am about to quit because I am pushed to my limits and I am pushed to the extent that my mind and body congregates and would tell me “It’s enough” but suddenly, the light illuminates and there I found myself embracing the joy and the desire of my heart.

Becoming a teacher comes with great responsibility. However, teaching has uncovered the artist in me, I became the best artist because the students are my canvas and they serve as my living masterpiece thus, teaching has been both a science and an art.

William Butier Yeats once said, “Education is not filling up the pail, but the lighting of the fire.” I am moved to this famous quote because I as very ideal that teaching was just transferring and imparting learning to students but, litter do I know I was already giving them the light for them to become who they become to be in the future. It may not be as beautiful as they planned it just like me, but I know that they will be as beautiful as butterfly.

The art of education lights the fire in their lives. Give and teach them the light where they will learn how to love, and appreciate things and in the end you will find yourself at peace. There is miracle and life and in there is Joy in it!

Thank you God for calling out my heart to be a servant of humanity, I am excited by the learning opportunities that awaits me every day and I am grateful for the change to make the lives of few become better. May you bless the words that I may utter towards the students and enlighten me with you wisdom so that I may glorify your name.

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