Courage To Love

Some people dare not love because they are worried that they won't receive love in return.

Some people dare not love again because they were hurt many times before and they don't want to be hurt again.

There are many of us who are so scared to love. Is love really bad? Does love always hurt?

There is nothing wrong with love. Loving is caring and sharing with one another. It is the greatest gift of all to mankind. Love is not self seeking and it is not supposed to harm people. But then, why is it that so many of us are so scared to love?

Some of us can fall into love so easily without any help or motivation from others. We can think and feel about love, and the next moment we are ready to fall in love. Love has become so much a part of us in so short of time that we are always surrounded by people who love.

But there are also among us people who dare not love. They are so scared to love, and they need people to encourage and stimulate them to love. To them, love is a serious business that one should not simply play with. They are so worried to love, and don't have the courage to love.

Is courage a necessary ingredient to love? Do we really need courage before we can go after our love?

I believe in love. I believe love flows naturally when we create a space for it. I believe we just have to think and feel about love, and I believe we must always go ahead and love.

Love is caring and sharing, and it is always powerful and compelling. Love changes and transform our minds, our hearts, our spirits and our ways of love. Through love, we show our care, our concern and our commitment to one another; through love, we seek to edify and strengthen one another; through love, we help and minister to one another's needs.

Some of us may need courage to initiate love. But I believe courage isn't everything we need. What we need to do is to open our minds and hearts to love, and go ahead with our love.

What do you think? Do you think we need courage to love?

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I Love Teaching

I have been in the teaching profession for the past 23 years. This is my third school, and I have been here for 16 years.

I love the people and the surroundings here. This is an excellent school, good in academics and sports. I feel very relaxed and peaceful teaching in this school.

I really enjoy teaching. Teaching has become part and parcel of my daily routines. I don't know what to do every time when there is a long holiday. Somehow I will start to look around and do some works related to my teaching career.

I remembered how I hated teaching in my first few years as a teacher. There were always desires to grumble and complain about students and fellow teachers. Sometimes, I had these thoughts and feelings to quit the teaching profession. I dreamed of joining a well-established company. Then I dreamed of starting my personal business. But over the years, the quitting thoughts and feelings had slowly gone away. And I began to love teaching, more and more.

I enjoyed helping my students achieve good academic results. I enjoyed seeing them scored in their public examination. I enjoyed having them come back as professionals and experts in various fields. And I felt happy when they joined me as teachers too.

Teaching has made me become a well respected teacher. Many students look up to me when they need helps and advices; sometimes parents too come to hear me. In fact, they always have questions about their studies and career paths.

I miss my ex-students and my ex-fellow teachers. I continue to connect to them through social network like Facebook. Here I learned of their life and family, and their recent happenings. I am happy to wish them happy birthday, happy engagement or happy wedding, etc. I thank Facebook for helping me to stay connected to them.

Some people said teachers are serious people. I have to agree. Every time I look at the big mirror, I can really see how serious I have become with an old-fashioned hairstyle and a face without a smile. Now I have to learn to wear a smile wherever I go.

As I looked around today, I discovered many teachers as fat as me. I remembered years ago, when we first reported to the school, we were all thin, in fact very thin. But now we look so different with our bulging tummies. Can't imagine how the heavy workload has kept us so occupied that we seldom have time for sports and games!

My children never like teaching; but I am not surprised. It can be the stresses and tensions that they have seen in their father's face, that they had decided to stop thinking about teaching as a career.

I am now in my 50s. I have still 8 more years to go and enjoy my teaching career. But I think I will be alright; I will teach to the very end.

I love teaching.

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