When you were a kid, your teacher asked you to write a ten line essay on your role model. Unfortunately, you were young then and would be fed with names that you did not know enough about. Names which moved nations like Mahatma Gandhi, Dr. Martin Luther king, Nelson Mandela, Abraham Lincoln .
But the question remained the same? How much could you relate to them? How well were you told about these role models, enough to be motivated to motivate, or to be the change you were seeking to happen.
My assertion is small, yet powerful, for I believe the beginning of the role model begins in YOU. If you are a parent, your kids look up to you to form a subconscious character of what is right and what is incorrect. When you misrepresent your income, and hence evade the tax regimes, your kids overhear you, and think, “oh maybe its not bad to cheat after all.” Then one day he gets caught cheating in a term paper and you blame him/her when you meet the class teacher.
As I was on my evening walk, I saw a man, tattered up on mud in the park, probably he was drun, had a fight with someone, and dozed there .Think about it, if your son sees you like that , what you do to undo the wrath that you brought to his nestling mind .
Don’t tell your kids to be Sunita williams , or Sania Mirza, tell them to be just like you, and be that model of perfection yourself.
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The English language is nobody’s special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself. ~Derek Walcott
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