You must be thinking: “Oh great, another unoriginal, inspiring post for teachers. We get it, you mold minds, change kids and work super hard. We know.”
But hear me out. I know I sometimes get annoyed with those kinds of post but I swear, this one is different! I’ll cut through the oh so inspiring clichés and really talk about the passion, what it really feels like to make a living out of something you’re so passionate about that you can’t think of anything else.
I chose to teach because I really don’t see myself doing anything else. I’ve had a number of bad experiences, a few good ones... and then I had a perfect dream. That perfect dream where the other teachers valued English just as much as mathematics or French, where my CT sat back and really let me shine, where I had my own classroom so I didn’t have to constantly run around the whole school, where the students valued learning and were acting as a whole team, not rejecting anyone... a dream where everything just went so well that I started getting paranoid (because I had the absolute worst experience prior). In such an environment, it’s just so easy.
So how do you know you’ve found your passion? Well let me tell you: it’s the best feeling in the world. It’s a feeling that you never thought existed until you’ve actually lived it.
It’s when you constantly have a smile on your face, when you just rethink about the funny moments during the day and laugh about them all by yourself. Sure, there may be a few bad moments, but those are outweighed by all the good ones, the victories-may they be big or small.
It’s when your heart is filled up with so much joy you think it’s gonna explode. It’s when you think about all the little people you see/meet and wonder, just a bit, if they feel the same way about you. But it doesn’t matter, really, because you care for them no matter what. Sure, they might have messed up a bit today, disrupted a bit, but at the end of the day, you love them anyways.
It’s when you continuously want to improve on what you do. Yes, you’ve mastered a few aspects in the field, but you’re a lot more interested in constructive criticism, because that will help you become the best _______ you can be. You don’t mind spending hours and hours on different projects related to your work -and being happy about it- and are always interested in the latest discoveries (bogus or not) related to your field.
It's when you don’t even realize that you’ve been living through/breathing in your work all day long. Everything you see, hear, touch and feel just make your mind explode with ideas and theories.
And that, my dear friends, is how you know you've found your calling. I just happen to be really lucky to have everything fall into place as I went along. Wouldn't the world be a better place where the ultimate goal was driven by happiness and passion instead of greed and power?
... That would be a whole other post though (perhaps for my hippie side).
Till then, keep searching for that flame.
Kippis
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