Change!
Jamal Sawan
This semester, I’ve been assigned to teach a new general education course. I honestly didn’t mind learning something new and going out of my comfort zone to get to work with new colleagues. Ironically, the first topic that I had to teach for my students was Change in Life. Teaching our students to accept the fact that they are college students who should be responsible for their own future which they were not trained in the first place to take the lead when they were at the high school level. Change can happen at any phase in life. When a baby is born, he/she spends the first few years with their parents. Later they move on from KG, to primary, to elementary then to high school. Through these years, they have always someone to help taking care of them and getting things done for them. When they move to college life, it is like a global village with people from different background and ethnicity. New teachers. New friends. New rules.
People in life go through different phases of change and they have to be tolerant enough to accept it and embrace it with grace. Change makes our brain works better and increases our motive for life. When we fight change, we are left behind. It takes lots and lots of practice and patience to master new skills in life. The reward of feeling in is indescribable.
And, as Mr. Einstein said “A ship is always safe at the shore – but that is NOT what it is built for.”
