Thursday, March 11, 2010

Within innocence, there's always kindness.


It's my 7th month of teaching and it's unbelievable at how much I've learned. Not only I learned about the kids but how they helped me learn about the world and life. It's amazing how there are many dimensons of life/world and it is entirely true that we will never be at some of the dimensons ever in our lifetime thus we will never see and understand these perceptions.

To be honest, when I was in college, I forgot where kindness came from. Sure in college, everyone mingle but they are so much in their own selves. Well these people are experiencing on-going growing process with themselves so they forget about kindness.

Now I am surrounded by kids nearly everyday. I teach science to horomones-raging kids, the middle school students. I coach age 5 to 8 elementary basketball team, and I am strength training coach for high school kids. I see how kids are what invite kindness in the world. It is a perception that I never saw until I became a part of that dimenson of the world.

Kids are born innocent. If we really pay attention we will recognize kids simply become what they are nutured with. A 5 years old boy in my basketball would do anything it takes to win a game. He doesn't care about scoring but a team victory. Another 5 years old boy asked me to go on a pretense zoo trip to visit giraffees, hippos, rhinos, and snakes. A 9 years old boy was at other end of the campus and he ran over to me just to hug me. This junior boy did 10 reps on 145 lbs towel bench press, it was an inital accomplishment but it made this boy proud to the extent. A 13 years old girl cleaned my classroom out of blue and said she wanted to help. I gave a pez candy of star wars to a 5 years old and he was at his happiest.

Sure kids aren't perfect or always adorable but as you can see, within innocence, there is kindness. People are born with kindness. Kindness is our first and foremost trait until we are nutured to what we are exposed to everyday. These kids are still learning everyday but they did not need to learn how to do the most kindest things because it is already within them.

That is why innocence is the most sacred thing and we must fight to ensure that kids maintain their innocence for as long as they can. When they enter into their adulthood, they will eventually lose their innocence to the extremes of life/world but as the kindness has been with them for a long time, it will eventually become them.

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