“ The world is your classroom.” – mum
The past couple of days, she has been learning, not because she is living in that classroom but rather because she wants to.
Questions.
We all have them – no, it wasn’t the why questions, rather the what questions. If the world is her classroom, then she would like a refreshment course. She picked up the book she has been writing, the book that you and I have, flipping through the pages, she tries to look for a reason. An answer to one question – Love. A reason for love.
How can something affect us so mightily, how can something hurt us so much when it goes unnoticed, how is it that that something heal us, how can that very something affect us so much, and yet we don’t know what makes us do it.
Looking through the pages, she found no one definite reason. What makes us care that we care so much?
What.
In pursuit of the answer behind this question, she asked the very person who loves her. She asked, and uttered the words, the question came out right, but the answer came out unexpected.
The answer she received was not in words, but what welled up in the eye of the one she love. The drops that welled had a reflection of herself. She found more than an answer, she found love. That answered all.
The world is a classroom, but the teachers are not always right. She learnt today that sometimes, we do the things we do, just because we want to. We love the people we love - just because we do. We fight for what we believe in – just because we do. And she learnt it through a friend- a best friend.
Sometimes when you’re in a classroom and there is a question. You try to look for the answers, you open the books, you search through your own written book, but there is no answer. Well, stop flipping through, sometimes you learn the best things out of the classroom, sometimes the answers are not where you are searching.
Right now, you’re in a classroom. The teacher has a name tag that spells ‘M-I-S-T-A-K-E-S’. Why don’t you ask that teacher to take a sit, and you try taking over the class instead, because when you do, the lessons you learn and the meaning you will find will be extraordinary.
But in the midst of learning, don’t forget to live. Because in trying to answer her question, she almost forgot to do just that –live.
Live – just because.
