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[Jul. 15th, 2008|04:49 pm]
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it feels like a tiny miracle inside of me when i get this intense feeling of HOPE and i KNOW i can change people's lives.
it happened again today when i was packing my unit up and overheard an Oprah episode of 'Challenge Day' that they did at a highschool in the US. It is pretty much just an oppurtunity for people to open up, talk about issues effecting them (predominatly racism in the US) and to bond over these similarities.
i watched the episode - must've been at least a year ago - and it gave me this HOPE.
I remember at my primary school we had a similar thing - a guy came in and talked to us and gave us HOPE and made us feel we could. do. anything.
and seriously, that is what school is meant to be about
learning human biology or algebra is SECOND to realising that humans are all unique, but so incredibly similar. we all bleed the same and we all cry the same tears.
THAT is what schools need to teach - but in less dramatic and emo terms of course :P
I WANT TO DO THIS
i want to be the one that gives HOPE to children.
I want to be the one that tells them that we all have deepseated emotions and they become easier to deal with if we share them and see each other as friends - not enemies.
I WANT TO TEACH EMPATHY.
I believe empathy is the MOST IMPORTANT emotion - it is far reaching, far effecting and at the end of the day - if you haven't been there, and don't know how that other person is feeling, you can still EMPATHISE with them.
When i was in year 10, choosing my TEE subjects, the school counsellor (i use that term loosely) told me TO MY FACE that i was not smart enough to become a surgeon - the career path i was aiming at at that time.
she told me i was NOT SMART ENOUGH to do English Literature, and should drop down to straight English. SHE TOLD ME THESE THINGS AND THOUGHT NOTHING OF IT.
2 years later I TOPPED my English Literature class. I received the second highest overall marks out of THE ENTIRE YEAR GROUP. I received a scholarship to study LAW at UWA - this required a TER of something ridiculous of 98.05. - I got 97.05, but because of this scholarship I could study Law. TODAY i have gotten my final marks back and I NOW HAVE AN LLB and ARTS degree majoring in all things - quite ironically - english literature.
I know now I can do anything i set my mind too
I would love to go back to my highschool and tell that poor excuse of a career's counsellor exactly what i have achieved in the decade or so since she gave me that 'advice'
but that would be spiteful and hate driven - which is not something i do
instead, i will take this message to the kids who will benefit from it
i am going to teach them to love and live and empathise with one another |
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