Tag: life lessons

about me, Education, leadership, skills

Is time an illusion?

A Learning Leader

Is time an illusion?


According to theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli, time is an illusion: our naive perception of its flow doesn’t correspond to physical reality. Time seems to follow a universal, ticktock rhythm. But it doesn’t. Absolute space and time is a concept in physics and philosophy .

Time is slow when you wait .

Time is fast when you are late .

Time is deadly when you are sad .

Time is short when you are happy .

Time is endless when you are in pain!

Time is long when you feel bored.

Time is most beautiful when you are in love .

In the Special Theory of Relativity, Einstein determined that time is relative–in other words, the rate at which time passes depends on your frame of reference. Just as observers in two different frames of reference don’t always agree on how to describe the motion of a bouncing ball, they also don’t always agree on when an event happened or how long it took.

Albert Einstein Theory of relativity

Time is relative; its only worth depends upon what we do as it is passing.

Albert Einstein

Professor Einstein’s secretary was so burdened with inquiries as to the meaning of “relativity” that the professor decided to help her out. He told her to answer these inquiries as follows:

When you sit with a nice girl for two hours you think it’s only a minute

 “When you sit with a nice girl for two hours you think it’s only a minute, but when you sit on a hot stove for a minute you think it’s two hours. That’s relativity.”

One of the most revolutionary concepts that we learned in the 20th century is that time is not a universal measurement. It doesn’t matter how much our lives are governed by the same seconds, minutes, hours, days, and weeks, regardless of where we live on the globe, time will never be absolute. The rate at which it passes depends entirely on your speed and acceleration at any given moment.

The faster a clock moves, the slower time passes according to someone in a different frame of reference. Time is relative even for the human body, which is in essence a biological clock. The effect of time slowing down is negligible at speeds of everyday life, but it becomes very pronounced at speeds approaching that of light.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life. By consistently channeling time and energy toward an overarching purpose, people can most fully realize their potential.

Every time, time is determined by your feelings and your psychological conditions and not by the clocks.

Time is the reflection of our mindset!

Wanna have a nice time, have a great mindset first!

Have a good time!

If you have come this far you must have liked the post so if you enjoyed this post don’t forget to like, follow, share and comment!

Time is the reflection of our mindset!

Education, HIndi, school, short stories, skills

Folktales-5 Recognize the strength of your willpower.

A Learning Leader

People around the world talk about forest conservation, however trees,plants and nature is so much inculcated in Indian culture and rituals that they can’t be separated. Trees have been treated like companions and family members from ages in Indian society and we do learn life lessons from them too .

Here is one for all of us, in the form of a Indian folk tale…

Our Will power is stronger than we think!

लघुकथा

अपनी संकल्प शक्ति को पहचानें।

(मानव जीवन में संकल्प शक्ति बहुत सिद्धि देती है। संकल्प शक्ति के बल पर व्यक्ति की अच्छी और बुरी इच्छाएं तुरंत पूरी हो जाती हैं। जब कोई व्यक्ति यह अनुभव करने लगे कि उसकी विचार और संकल्प पूरे होने लगे हैं तो उसे सावधान हो जाना चाहिए क्योंकि यह स्थिति बहुत खतरनाक साबित हो सकती है। मनुष्य की इसी संकल्प शक्ति को लेकर यह लोक कथा लिखी जा रही है।)

एक बार एक मुसाफिर किसी जंगल में पैदल जा रहा था कि रास्ते में एक हरा भरा सुंदर वृक्ष दिखाई दिया। वह व्यक्ति चलते चलते थक गया था तो उसने सोचा “चलो इस पेड़ की शीतल छाया में थोड़ी देर के लिए विश्राम कर लेता हूं।”
उसे यह पता नहीं था कि जिस पेड़ के नीचे वह बैठा था, वह कल्पवृक्ष (संकल्प पूरे करने वाला) पेड़ था जैसे ही उस मुसाफिर ने उस कल्पवृक्ष के नीचे बैठकर विश्राम करने की सोची तुरंत आसपास का वातावरण शीतल और सुहाना हो गया। लेटते ही थोड़ी देर में उसे प्यास लगी और उसने इच्छा की कि कहीं से ठंडा जल मिल जाता तो प्यास बुझा लेता। तत्काल उसके पास ठंडे जल का भरा हुआ पात्र प्रकट हो गया। उसने प्यास बुझा ली। कुछ देर बाद मुसाफिर को भूख लगी। उसने मन में भोजन की इच्छा की तो तुरंत भोजन आ गया। भोजन करने के बाद उसने आराम करने के लिए सोना चाहा तो उसके सामने गद्देदार बिस्तर का पलंग प्रकट हो गया। वह मुसाफिर उस पर लेट गया।उसकी इच्छा शक्ति तेजी से काम कर रही थी।

यहां यह ध्यान देने की बात है कि उस मूर्ख मुसाफ़िर ने एक बार भी यह नहीं सोचा कि इस निर्जन वन में ये सब सुविधाएं कहां से आ रही हैं, कौन ला रहा है, क्यों ना रहा है? बस वह मुसाफिर तो संकल्प से जनम लेने वाली इच्छाएं किए जा रहा था और वे पूरी हो रही थी। उसका विवेक तो जगा ही नहीं। कुछ देर बाद उसे पलंग पर लेटे लेटे नींद आ गई।

आंख गहरी लग गई और जब सोकर उठा तो शाम हो चुकी थी।अब वह बहुत चिंता करने लगा और सोचने लगा कि “अब मुझे चलना चाहिए। अंधेरा हो गया है। कहीं ऐसा नहीं हो कि कोई शेर आ जाए और मुझे खा जाए।” उस मूर्ख मुसाफिर ने इतना मन में सोचा ही था कि एक शेर उस पर झपट पड़ा थोड़ी देर में उसे खा गया। मुसाफिर ने जो भी कुछ मन में अच्छा या बुरा सोचा, वह साकार हो गया देर ही नहीं लगी।

कई बार जीवन में हम भी ऐसी ही इच्छा और विचार करते हैं तो वे तुरंत पूरे हो जाते हैं। इस जगत में प्रत्येक कल्पना, विचार, इच्छा महत्वपूर्ण होता है और जब हम उसे पूरे मन, चित्त और संकल्प से इच्छा में बदलते हैं तो वह किसी ने किसी समय अवश्य पूरी हो जाती है। इसलिए हम अपनी संकल्प शक्ति को पहचाने और ध्यान रखें कि वही इच्छा करें जो हमारे लिए अच्छी हो। वरना तो परेशानी में पड़ सकते हैं। इस कहानी में कल्पवृक्ष से हमारा आशय संकल्प शक्ति (will power) से है।
इति शुभम। 🌹🙏

Story credit:

Mr. Dalchand

A Storyteller by heart

Storytelling has its own charm in learning and teaching. Native stories make a strong impact, with ease of understanding as they are deep rooted in culture and community. Hindi being my mother tongue never left its space in my heart. I strongly believe that in early childhood teaching in mother tongue is definitely the easiest way to reach to a child’s heart.
Indian folklore has been passed through generations over the centuries, with the words of wisdom which benefit young and old equally. I plan to share these short stories aka folk tales every once in a while to my audience, use them as a warm up activity, lunch break filler, going home time activity or simply read to your own children. Stories have their own magic!

If you have come this far you must have liked the post so if you enjoyed this post don’t forget to like, follow, share and comment!

about me, Education, leadership, skills

Leading a meaningful and healthy life!

A Learning Leader
Leading a meaningful and happy life along with enjoying the success

No matter how we define success for ourselves be it happiness, prosperity, professional achievement, personal achievement,  A Leader certainly needs a medium to climb the steps to success, conquer it and enjoy that accomplishment and that medium is our body.

A leader needs to lead a happy, healthy and meaningful life in order to be a successful leader.We all know the journey to the step-stone of success is extremely difficult and demanding. A shout out to all the leaders to remind us all what we are leaving behind while struggling to achieve our goal and the ultimate success.

The secrets to lead a life that you have lived and not just survived are not hidden. In fact they are pretty simple and known to everyone. However, we often forget these secrets in the hush and rush of achieving superficial success. These secrets will change our world if we imbibe them in our life. The more we incorporate in our day to day life ,the more we come closer to meaningful and true success.

Choose as many as you can and see the outcome:

Love yourself!
  • Love! as it’s the most powerful emotion.
  • Smile!  It’s a free and all time available energy booster.
  • Eat Healthy! you will be happy if your stomach is happy.
  • Exercise! pump up your body and mind with as simple as 30 min. walk daily.
  • Yoga! heal your soul, mind and discover yourself each day.
  • A good sleep! makes you recharge for the day .
  • Avoid judging others! as it adds no positive value to you.
Be real
  • Be Real!  don’t try to be someone else, just to please.
  • Appreciate people, it promotes efficiency and a positive outlook towards all.
  • Practice empathy, you know you have been in those shoes.
  • Practice being respectful, you earn respect, when you give respect.
  • Dig deeper into things, analyze your abstract thoughts and mold them into a concrete idea .
  • Learn to forgive, no one is perfect.
  • Believe that you’re blessed, because you really are.
  • Be thankful, simple cause we got another day to live and of course have got much more than many others.
Yoga Exercise and Meditation
  • Learning something new regularly, as learnability is the only skill that will take you further.
  • Never be hopeless, Hope is the essence of living.
  • Watch your words, it’s a non reversible action.
  • Don’t hurt others with your words, you will realize after a few seconds you didn’t mean it.
  • Sleep in peace and wake in joy, you are ready for the challenges.
  • Eliminate jealousy, what’s the point? be better than  what you were yesterday.
  • Never criticize yourself, positive self talk invites positive things.
  • Don’t expect too much, you will ultimately get what you deserve .
  •  Manage your stress and you’ll fix almost everything.
  • If you respect your own boundaries, people will respect you.
  •  Be childlike and enjoy small moments.
  • Don’t wait for the last minute to get the work done.
  • When your body says stop, listen to it.

Be easy. You are the best!

You are the Best!
Education, HIndi, short stories, skills

Folktales-4

A Learning Leader

How truthful we are to our goals ? Do we exactly decide and tell what is our aim? A dilemma between what we want to achieve and what we put on display to the world is always present in front of a person.

A small Indian folktale, showing the importance of being truthful to our aims and goals…

लघुकथा

“लक्ष्य अवश्य तय कर लें।”


एक बार एक व्यक्ति गहरे जंगल में तपस्या करने गया। दिन रात तपस्या करने लगा। उसने दिनभर हवन करने के लिए हवन सामग्री मंगाई और हवन करने लगा। मन्त्रों से देवी को प्रसन्न करने की भरसक कोशिश करने लगा। जंगल में राख के ढेर लगते चले गए परंतु देवी प्रकट नहीं हुई। पर उस व्यक्ति ने हवं बंद नहीं किया।

एक दिन उज्जैन के महाराज विजरामदित्य अपने लाव लश्कर के साथ उस जंगल से होकर जा रहे थे कि अचानक उनकी नजर एक शिकार पर पड़ी। उन्होंने शिकार का पीछा किया और महाराज विक्रमादित्य रास्ता भटक गए। वे उस तपस्वी की ओर निकल गए, उनके संगी साथी बिछुड़ गए। कुछ दूरी पर उन्होंने आश्चर्यजनक दृश्य देखा कि जग जगह राख के ढेर देखे। वो सोचने लगे कि इतने गहरे जंगल में इतनी सारी राख कहाँ से आयी। राख के ढेर क्यों लगे हैं।

महाराज आगे बढे तो देखा कि एक अतिवृद्ध व्यक्ति संत के वेश में हवन कर रहा है, लगातार मन्त्रों का उच्चारण करता जा रहा है। उन्होंने जाकर प्रणाम किया और पूछा “संत महाराज, इस घोर जंगल में राख कहाँ से आई है।” तपस्वी ने कहा, “राजन, मैं मेरे यौवनकाल से अब तक बहुत वर्षों से देवी भगवती की आराधना कर रहा हूँ।” विक्रमादित्य राजा ने पूछा, “क्षमा करें महाराज, इतने लंबे समय तक देवी की आराधना और हवन का लक्ष्य और ध्येय क्या हो सकता है?” इस पर उस संत ने उत्तर दिया “मैं ये हवन देवी के दर्शन के लिए कर रहा हूँ मगर देवी माँ ने अभी तक नहीं दिए हैं। पता नहीं क्या भूल हो रही है।”

राजा को यह बात सुनकर आश्चर्य हुआ कि इन संत महाराज को इतनी लंबी तपस्या के बाद भी देवी माँ के दर्शन नहीं हुए, ऐसा क्यों?” महाराज ने बहुत सोचा मगर कुछ समझ में नहीं आया। महाराज विक्रमादित्य न्यायप्रिय राजा थे और ईश्वर में अटूट विश्वास रखते थे। उन्होंने संकल्प किया कि संत महाराज को देवी माँ के दर्शन तो होने ही चाहिए। राजा ने म्यान में से तलवार निकाली और बोले “माँ ये जीवन आपका दिया हुआ है, आपके किसी बच्चे की इच्छा पर उसे दर्शन न हो तो जीवन का क्या लाभ?”

तलवार को घुमाकर अपनी गर्दन पर रख दिया और काटने को तैयार हुए कि देवी माँ प्रकट हो गई। बोली, “विक्रमादित्य तुम सत्यवादी, धर्मनिष्ठ, प्रजापालक, और गुणी हो, फिर भी आत्महत्या जैसा जघन्य अपराध कर रहे हो।” राजा ने कहा माँ ये संत इतने लंबे समय से आपकी आराधना कर रहा है, सारा जीवन तपस्या लीन रहा, परंतु आपने दर्शन नहीं दिए जबकि मेरे प्राण बचाने के लिए प्रकट हो गई। इसका क्या कारण है?”

देवी माँ ने राजा को बताया “ये संत दोगला है, झूठ बोल रहा है। इसका ध्येय मेरा दर्शन कर आ नहीं है,बल्कि मुझसे पारस पत्थर पाना चाहता है ताकि मन चाहे जीतना सोना बनाये। इसका ध्येय मेरा दर्शन करना होता तो मैं कब की ही प्रकट हो गई होती।”


दोस्तो, कमोवेश यही हम सबकी कहानी है, हम भी अपनी इच्छाओं को छिपाकर दूसरों को कुछ का कुछ कहते हैं। कहते कुछ हैं और ध्येय कुछ होता है। लक्ष्य से भटक जाते है। इसलिये हमारा मन और आत्मा से लक्ष्य निर्धारण होना चाहिये।

Story credit:

Mr. Dalchand

A Storyteller by heart

Storytelling has its own charm in learning and teaching. Native stories make a strong impact, with ease of understanding as they are deep rooted in culture and community. Hindi being my mother tongue never left its space in my heart. I strongly believe that in early childhood teaching in mother tongue is definitely the easiest way to reach to a child’s heart.
Indian folklore has been passed through generations over the centuries, with the words of wisdom which benefit young and old equally. I plan to share these short stories aka folk tales every once in a while to my audience, use them as a warm up activity, lunch break filler, going home time activity or simply read to your own children. Stories have their own magic!

If you have come this far you must have liked the post so if you enjoyed this post don’t forget to like, follow, share and comment!

about me, Education, leadership, parenting, skills

An open letter to parents part-2

A Learning Leader

Foundation of raising a genius….

To see the truth,
to know the way,
I cast a spell in every way.
By the power of three
I conjure thee
To give thy truth unto me.

Dear parent,

We all have that one moment when we see a perfect child and a perfect parent, and all our self doubts over power us to think; what am I not doing right?

Just like me, you must have wondered what is that magic formula? what is that spell? which helps Parents in raising a genius child!

let me reveal the truth to you through an experienced , behold !

When Tiktok was taking last breaths in India before its ban, I saw a very interesting Tiktok video. The video was on effective upbringing of our little ones. The orator in the video emphasized on the fact that right from the childhood, we should inculcate in our child’s mind that “She/he is a genius and a god gifted child”.

Could parenting be that simple!

I found it an intriguing idea to try and was eager to see its consequences.

Earlier, I used to get angry easily and scold my child without taking a note of the surrounding people, thinking that he is not old enough to understand complexities of self respect. His usual reaction would be like, he would not talk for sometime and then after a while he will pretend to forget everything and would start talking normally. A real consequence was when he would try to lie around to save himself from similar incident. That shocked my nerves, I never expected my child to become a liar. I found myself guilty and wanted to find a perfect solution for this problem . I thought and thought that what a wonderful thing it will be if my child stop committing mistakes at all ,oh! my world would be perfect.

I decided to apply this formula, I started praising my child in front of other people for small yet good deeds, no matter, how least commendable they were? I started to make him feel that he is exceptionally good, sort of god gifted. I completely stopped scolding him in public and tried to make him understand, that what he did was wrong and why, but most importantly only when we two were present.

Few days went without much to notice then I could observed a drastic change, a visible winning attitude and a boy with effervescent self confidence could be seen. He started talking to me more than ever before. I was flabbergasted that a boy of this age has this many tales to tell in which he proved himself over his friends in classroom which he never shared with me. He was bubbling with self reliance and self confidence. He, in trying to get more praises from me, started doing most of the things himself. He started carrying things for me even if they are heavy or carry my mobile if I had my hands full. He, the same little boy who would do even a single thing after saying 5-6 times followed by scolding at least 2 times was doing the tasks in advance without being told and was even willing to help me out in dusting. I was speechless. He has became my adorable loving boy from a irritating boy.

I am continuing with practice of putting the beautiful thought in his mind that he is a boy with exceptional talent and awesome qualities which is a boon over others. I was overwhelmed by the astonishing results of this experiment. I believe this strategy can make the child conquer the unconquerable things. to the least, children are going to achieve much more than their usual capacity. I believe every parent will see positive results by using this strategy to make their children ultimate winners and successful happy citizens.

World famous writer Dale Carnegie has written in his book “How to win friends and influence people”

Happiness is followed by a cause and vice versa.

Dale Carnegie

. This means that if we keep ourselves happy, things which will cause more happiness will follow automatically. The same thing applies in case of children ‘s mindset also if we successfully become capable of inculcating the thought that our child is a genius and god gifted, the intelligence will surely follow and god gift talent will surely bestow on him.

Hence the magic spell to have genius child is as simple as that as telling him/her that you are genius and I believe in you!

Go ahead, cast the spell of positive words and see the magic unwinding yourself!

Thanks,

A teacher and a parent

Story credit : Pooja

If you have come this far you must have liked the post so if you enjoyed this post don’t forget to like, follow, share and comment!

Education, HIndi, leadership, short stories, skills

Folktales-3

A Learning Leader

Another Gem in Indian folklore, How important life lessons can be learnt from ancient Indian stories of kings and queens……. Their experiences our learning….

लघुकथा
“जो करना है स्वयं करो, दूसरों के भरोसे मत रहो।”

एक बार जोधपुर में जसवंत सिंह जी नाम के महाराजा थे। वे योगिक क्रियाओं में दक्ष थे।प्रतिदिन घंटों योगाभ्यास करते थे। समाधि जैसी गुप्त साधना भी भलीभांति जानते थे। एक दिन उनके मन में आया कि उनके निकट सहयोगियों की वफादारी का पता लगाया जाए। तो उन्होंने एक तरकीब निकाली।

Jodhpur Maharaj Jaswant singh

महाराज ने अपने परम विश्वसनीय लोगों को बुलाया और कहा ” मेरे मन में एक इच्छा है, आप पूरी करोगे?”
उन्होंने एक स्वर में कहा “आपके के लिए हम अपने प्राण भी देने को तैयार हैं।” महाराजा बोले ‘मुझे तुम्हारा जीवन नहीं चाहिए, वह तो हम सबको ईश्वर ने दिया है, वो ही जीवन वापस लेने हकदार हैं।’मेरी तो सिर्फ इतनी सी इच्छा है कि जब मैं मर जाऊं, तो कम से कम मेरे शरीर पर धारण किए हुए आभूषण और हीरे-जवाहरात दीनहीन, गरीबों में बाँट देना। मंदिरों, आश्रमों में दान दे देना। चाहें तो आप लोग राजकोष में से और धन ले सकते हैं, पर मेरी अंतिम इच्छा अवश्य पूरी करना।’ ये सुनकर राजा के प्रधान मंत्री ने आश्वासन दिया की महाराज आपकी इच्छा अवश्य पूरी की जायेगी।साल दो साल बाद ये बात सब भूल गए। अब महाराजा ने अपने सभी निष्ठावान मंत्रियों की परीक्षा लेने की ठानी।

योग विद्या के जानकार होने के कारण वे समाधि लगा सकते थे।समाधि की हालत में शरीर बाहर से मृत दिखता है, नाड़ियां बहुत मंद चलती हैं, श्वांस रुक सा जाता है परंतु समाधि लगाने वाला ऐसा योगी सब कुछ देख-सुन सकता है।

एक दिन महाराजा ने पेट दर्द का बहाना किया और लेट गए, समाधि लगा ली। सभी मंत्री गण उनके चारों ओर इकट्ठा हो गए। उन्होंने सोचा महाराज अब मारने वाले हैं, इसलिए उन्हें भूमि पर उतार लिया। मंत्री ने अपने साथियों से पूछा “इनके शरीर के आभूषणों आदि का क्या किया जाये।” उन्होंने महाराज की अंतिम इच्छा के बारे में बताया कि महाराज तो इन आभूषणों को गरीबों में बांटना चाहते थे। मंदिरों और आश्रमों को दान देना चाहते थे। ये सुनकर महाराज का प्रधानमंत्री बोला “तुमने भी क्या बात कही है। महाराज तो मूर्ख और गधे होते हैं। अब हम राजा हैं। हम जो चाहेंगे, वो ही होगा।”

महाराजा की हाँ में हाँ मिलानी पड़ती है और महाराजा को भरोसा दिलाना पड़ता है कि सब कुछ उनकी इच्छानुसार ही होगा।” यहाँ सुनकर महाराज के कुछ वफ़ादार मंत्री बोले “नहीं, महाराजा की अंतिम इच्छा पूरी करनी होगी। हमने उनको वचन दिया था।” इस पर प्रधान मंत्री पलटते हुए बोले “अरे, हम इन आभूषणों के जैसे ही नकली आभूषण बनवाकर गरीबों में बांट देते हैं। इससे महाराजा को दिया वचन भी पूरा हो जायेगा और हम सम्पति भी प्राप्त कर सकेंगे। “इतना कहकर प्रधान मंत्री ने नकली गहने बनाने वाले को बुलवाया। ठीक इसी समय महाराजा ने अपनी समाधि तोड़ दी और ओम की आवाज के साथ उठ खड़े हुए।

महाराज ने अब तक हुआ सारा घटनाक्रम देख-सुन चुके थे। प्रधान मंत्री भयभीत होकर कांपने लगे परंतु जल्दी ही संभलकर चिल्लाने लगे “हमारे महाराज जीवित हैं, भगवान का लाख लाख धन्यवाद।” महाराज की जय जय कार करने लगे।तब महांराजा बोले ” ये सब नाटक बंद करो, मुझे आप सब लोगों की वफादारी का पता चल गया है।”
फिर महाराजा ने गरीबों, मंदिरों,आश्रमों को पर्याप्त धन और भूमि दान दी। आज भी जोधपुर के प्राचीन मंदिरों और आश्रमों के पास पर्याप्त धन है।

इस कथा के कई अर्थ हैं। महाराजा को समाधि अवस्था में अपने मंत्रियों की वफ़ादारी का पता चल गया। दूसरे जब सत्ता, संपत्ति और धन का प्रश्न उठता है तो लोगों का असली चेहरा सामने आ जाता है। इसलिए हम जो भी करना चाहते हैं, स्वयं कर डालें, दूसरों के भरोसे नहीं रहें।


इति शुभम।

Story credit:

Mr. Dalchand

A Storyteller by heart

Storytelling has its own charm in learning and teaching. Native stories make a strong impact, with ease of understanding as they are deep rooted in culture and community. Hindi being my mother tongue never left its space in my heart. I strongly believe that in early childhood teaching in mother tongue is definitely the easiest way to reach to a child’s heart.
Indian folklore has been passed through generations over the centuries, with the words of wisdom which benefit young and old equally. I plan to share these short stories aka folk tales every once in a while to my audience, use them as a warm up activity, lunch break filler, going home time activity or simply read to your own children. Stories have their own magic!

If you have come this far you must have liked the post so if you enjoyed this post don’t forget to like, follow, share and comment!

Jaswant Thada monument in Jodhpur
Jaswant Thada monument in Jodhpur
Education, leadership, skills

Never give up

A Learning Leader

Butterflies are my favorite and the reason is just beyond their beauty and colors.

When you thought the world is about to close over you, it just began and life was more beautiful than ever again.

As a preschool teacher, we have been teaching the famous story of The Hungry Caterpillar for ages every year to every batch.

For those who haven’t got a chance to read this story, The gist of the story is that a tiny caterpillar is born and he starts eating a lot of food over the days which finally starts hurting his stomach being too full and when he is about to give up, he finds himself tightly bundled in his own cocoon, exhausted with pain and efforts, but he gives it a one more try and out comes a big beautiful butterfly with colorful wings flying high in the sky.

Now when we teach this story to the little learners, we have our objectives mostly defined as the child would be able to learn name of the days, numbers, counting, colors and objects etc. and if we wish to add some value education to it we would say the child will be able to learn the importance of healthy food.

But there is deeper meaning to it that I derive , butterfly’s life cycle teaches us an important lesson of life specially to the learning leaders.

A butterfly starts it’s life as a tiny caterpillar who’s only objective is to eat and eat more until it becomes full and then the same food starts hurting it so much, the caterpillar starts building a wall around it in form of cocoon as he feels it’s the end of the world, he is totally cut off from the word for days and just when he cannot bear it anymore, the cocoon starts to break and out comes a beautiful butterfly.

Had that caterpillar has given up to those walls, to the loneliness, to the pain and pressure of growing inside a limited space, he would have never seen the world and the world would have missed a marvel of nature.

So my dear friends,

Be like a butterfly, because just when we feel that the pressure, pain and agony of the world will crush us down, the beautiful dawn and a bright Sun awaits us with a beautiful beginning..

Never give up!

If you have come this far you must have liked the post so if you enjoyed this post don’t forget to like, follow, share and comment!