My TEACHER, My HERO

Capes, swords, laser eyes, super strength and many more. These are just some of the weapons we encounter with the so-called fictional heroes or characters. But did you know that there are also real life heroes who never use those weapons? These heroes only use a chalk and a blackboard to save people. These heroes are the ones we call teachers.

My Teacher, My hero. At first I never imagined that teachers are also considered heroes, but guess I was wrong. Because, as I was growing up, I had my very first teachers on my side. They’re my parents. From learning the ABC, to counting 1, 2, 3, singing Do, Re, Me, praying Our Father every night, they never skipped a beat.  I also consider our Almighty Father as one of my teachers because He was the one who taught me how to be God-fearing. When I reached the age of 6, I started going to school and I met the real teachers, the ones who will be second parents at school. From the things my parents taught to me, my knowledge from those things grew bigger and wider. I came to know what 1+1 means and what 1000-993 means. I also learned about the different living things around me and also the non-living things. I can still remember how these topics caught my attention. It started when I was in grade 3, my teachers we’re discussing topics and those topics really caught my attention and really cut me off-guard. From that time on, I came to love what I was learning at my school. Without my teachers, maybe my perspective about teaching, learning and schools would be dull and boring. They’re the ones who taught me how to enjoy living my life and letting what I learned out. I came to prioritize my studies. I came realize that it’s not bad to learn new things, just as long as your teacher is still there guiding and tutoring you with things you should know.

As we all thought at first, being a teacher is easy. But in what I have observed, it is not. A teacher’s job is not that easy. You need to also wake up early and then also sleep late like what most of the students do right now. You also need to know how to deal with the different attitudes of your students. If you want to be a teacher, you must have packed all your patience and sense of responsibility because this job is a serious job and it only seldom finds time for happiness. We must all know how to respect them. We must know how to listen to them wholeheartedly. Without them, other professions wouldn't even exist. And as the time comes that we will go on our separate ways and we will all be apart, the memories and the knowledge they imparted to us will not be forgotten. And those things we have learned from them and the principles they shared will serve as an inspiration as we go along the way.