23/08/2025
The truth we all feared!!
It has been many years since I left the four walls of school. Time and distance have blurred most of the memories, yet a few stand unshaken, refusing to fade. One of them is my memory of John, my classmate.
In our second year, John began sitting in class with his back turned to the board and the lecturer. At first, it seemed odd, but no professor questioned him. Most of them were indifferent, convinced that students, being adults, could choose as they wished. But not same professor Iron Lady, who insisted that John sit properly, and pressed him for an explanation.
His response was both shocking and enlightening.
Until then, I never knew John’s true ethnic identity. He spoke many languages so fluently that no one could easily place him. That day, he revealed that his culture forbade listening to an echo while facing its source. For him, turning his back was not rebellion but alignment with something deeper than the classroom.
Yet what followed left an even greater impression. John asked why a professor who had taught for over thirty-five years still relied on notes—reading, copying, and solving problems as though repeating a distant performance. His boldness struck the room. For the first time, someone had spoken aloud what many of us felt in silence, that we were being taught echoes, not thoughts flowing fresh from within.
That moment stayed with me. It taught me that anything done for decades yet still feeling mechanical is evidence of misalignment like a square peg forced into a round hole. Real work, real teaching, real living must grow from within; otherwise, it becomes performance without soul.
Looking back now, I see how John’s simple act carried a profound lesson: when there is no inner connection, there can be no true elevation.
To labor in what does not fit is to till barren soil, work without harvest, effort with no self discovery.
when what we do flows freely from within, it ceases to be mechanical. It becomes seamless, alive, and capable of touching souls.
Search for your true purpose!!!