Helping others find their voice which means helping someone to realize that they can also stand upfront in any situation.
We can inform them about the human sight they possess if there are matters that need to be dealt with by rules and laws.
We can help other people but before doing so we should prove ourselves worthy to do so then only we shall be able to guide them to reach their actual inner voice.
There is too much or too little of so many things in this world that we wish to catch in life. Our dreams, aspirations and wants make us put our hands into a jar full of innumerable options but when we get stuck at what to really pick, we falter and are unable to choose and thus come at a precise decision.
The road ahead seems blurry and one wonders if at all to walk on it until someone out there clears, not the road but the vision to see it clearly and helps us walk on it with a confident gait that we realize the importance and effectiveness of that guiding hand, advisor, counsellor or a bedrock MENTOR!
A Mentor is what each one of us needs to take the best decision, pick the right option and stay focused. But how do we know our mentors? How do we recognize them? The answer is very unadulterated.. When the student is ready, the Guru or mentor appears!
One recognizes a mentor in a kind, empathetic, non judgmental ,helpful, supporting, encouraging, motivating, positive and a wise human. A mentor is a gateway to a mentee's world of opportunities becoming correct and lifelong decisions and facilitating a successful place in life! A true mentor plants a belief, nurtures trust and backs a skill in the right direction. A mentee is forever looking for that mentor who exists but justifies his/her presence when the former is open to welcome one.
A mentor can help one find himself ,change lives and help build a nation and so MENTORING MATTERS!
Is Your Child Ready to Face the World?
Compassion means understanding others' suffering and
helping them just like Princess Diana and Mother Teresa did.
I learned the word compassion in the lockdown when
I was reading a book called Planting Seeds by Thich Nhat Hanh. There is a
chapter in the book called understanding and compassion. The chapter starts with
a promise "I vow to develop compassion to protect the lives of people,
animals, plants and minerals. The chapter says people like doing different
things; suppose you want to read a book and your friend wants to play tennis, you
can just read the book later and go out to play tennis with your friend. This
small act of understanding and compassion will give your friend joy and make
him happy, and you will become satisfied.
After reading that chapter, I realized that everyone was practising compassion and helping each other in the lockdown. We used to
practice compassion by helping in household and office work and supporting each
other as everything was closed. I also showed compassion and
helped my parents in work by cleaning the house and helping in cooking. My
parents understood that I couldn't meet my friends, so they played games like cricket, badminton and chess, which I play with my friends. Also, the
vendors were very understanding and compassionate, and they used to deliver things
quickly and also arranged if they didn't have that thing. Teachers practised
compassion by rapidly adapting to online learning and making it fun for us, and
being patient in teaching us.
We don't need to do something big to show compassion.
Small acts of kindness will show compassion and make a big difference. Everyone
can be compassionate; we don't need a superpower to be compassionate. If we do
a small act of compassion, we can make a big difference in the person's life
which we don't realize. As rightly said by the fourteenth Dalai Lama, "If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."
My family means everything to me, and I want to see them always happy. My family makes me happy, and so even I should try and keep them happy. Some simple ways in which I give happiness to my family are:
● by bringing good marks and doing well at school.
● by spending time with them instead of playing on gadgets.
● by teaching them something
● by supporting them in bad times
● by not being stubborn
● by sending them letters and emails every weekend from school.
