Teacher's teacher

This is the focus of Teacher's teacher blog today: the lonely but worth the wait of venturing into the unknown. Why lonely? Well, not in the sense that one does not laugh but in the sense that you will be on your own. Why worth the wait? It has to be, for anything significant especially that which is not immediately easy to understand is worth the wait.

Malaybalayan, the teacher, was recently recommended as one of the candidates in the search for the Most Outstanding Teacher. Malaybalayan's response: give way to the young. Indeed, the ones who won were in their early thirties.

Going deeper however, Malaybalayan felt the challenge was dwelling into the unknown. What matters now is not awards but the opportunity to just be who you are. You see, with awards and recognitions come the baggage: the sore losers out to put you down or the plain observers out to say something they consider a "black spot", a potential point to gossip about.

To sum up therefore, is to bring us back to the world that can be unknown but can also be a beginning of brighter things ahead. It is not really lonely after all, just painfully challenging to let go and accept the new vistas of life ahead.