People tend to measure time differently. Some measure time based on the age of their children. Some measure time based on accomplishment, such as graduating from school with various degrees. Some measure time looking ahead towards great things to look forward to or things that they rather not deal with.
Teaching is a strange way to measure time. Being a teacher, is much like being a perpetual student. You measure the time by the school year. You have a beginning, the rough middle and the sad, or exciting end.
You get to start over every year. New Students. New school supplies. New Ideas. New clothes. New haircut. New (even if you used them last year....they are new with the new school year) everything.
It is a promised fresh start. It is a renewal and rebirth. You can push away a bad year with this new year. A new year is a clean slate. An exciting stack of possibilities!
The problem...
The years go by faster and faster as time goes on.
The time really flies by!
We promise ourselves time for US during the summer, but spend most of it on school work.
Each year, seems like it lasts 8 months.
Our breaks are spent doing things that we have put off, like going to the doctor.
We are one year older every time a school year has ended.
The solution...
Enjoy each moment.
Don't rush towards breaks.
Find ways to take care of you during the school year.
Try to find something beyond school as a secondary identity.
Measure time with Joy.
Be Mindful.
Peace.
Mark Levine
#MIndfulliteracy
@LevineWrites
I love this post. I should read it every day.
ReplyDeleteIt is so funny that you wrote about this topic. I always said that the "new year" happened on September 1, not January 1, for me. It's how I marked the amount of time I had left with my own two kids before they left for college.
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