A light in the darkness

This topic is one of my favorite because I was full of fears before joining my first profession. I had doubt about what I would do after completing my high school. I feared what would be the outcome of competitive exams. What would happen if I could not make up the competitive exams? The author learned it in his personal development program; that's why he disliked his schools. He says that the traditional schools produced A graders, and the rest all were a lump of fear. The schools taught me how to score marks and come first, but when it came to practical application, I was zero. One harsh truth I learned in my first job's first practical class was that all you have learned, you know not how to practically use in real life. I saw my other siblings, who were not A graders and good like me, but they practically applied these principles quite well in their lives. This was the turning point that told me to learn the things in such a way that you know how to use them in practical li...

  I feel this poem deserves a presence in my blood. This poem is inspired by Rabindranath Tagore's poem " Where the mind is without fear. " I have borrowed  A mind without fear flaps its wings in gear until it fills the air where knowledge is free fare. A mind without fear is the world  that hasn't been broken up  into fragile fragments by the narrow domestic walls It is the world of words bubbling from the ocean of truth Where tireless striving sculpts the humanoid of perfection whose reflection is the clear stream of reason  which hasn't lost its vision in the dreary desert sand of dead habit rather, it's the place where the mind is led forward by thee into an ever-widening thought  incubating into materializing action O how I long to see  my students reach this niche where heaven of freedom is no miss but a grounded bliss O how I desire to witness my family and friends carve this ambry where fear flees forever as certitude holds clever. ©water2025 7...