OH CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN

This blog is a dedication to a very special teacher I met in organization. This is a blog written by a friend in which I contributed.

“For me she is my motivator and mentor. She fills with me passion and energy whenever I see her. She is the only person to whom I want to contact whenever I am feeling low in life. She has always taught me to learn to take the positives from everything in life. I always feel like saluting her whenever I see her. Her enthusiasm and passion towards sports and her ability to empathize with people is a great source of motivation for me. She is a perfectionist. The way she talks about her students, about her son, her husband and her career fills me with admiration for her. I have not seen a person who is passionate about every single aspect of her life. Thank you so much for being such an inspiration and a true mentor.”

Now, here is what she had to say:

Every time I saw the movie Dead Poets’ Society I wished I had a person in my life that could pump as much energy and enthusiasm in me for life as the character played by Robin Williams did for his students in the movie.

Throughout my school life and my graduation I looked for that one person whose passion for life could touch my heart. I met a lot of passionate people but for the first time in so many years I met someone whose passion for her work and her family is so inspiring that I wish I could have that level of passion in me.

 The first time I met her she impressed my mother and my aunt, who were apprehensive of leaving me in a hostel in Gurgaon. She told my mother about the rules and regulations and the security measures being taken by the management for the safety of the students. There was faith in my mother’s eyes, belief that if this woman is saying something it must be true. She was immediately ready to leave me in the hostel because she believed in the discipline that this woman can inspire in me. On the way back home, my mother told me that if at the end of the next two years in this institute I could imbibe a few of her qualities I will be able to attain all my goals in life.

 Be it the friendly smile she gives each of us every day, the warm hug she gave us in the hostel when we missed home, the way she shared her whole life-story with the class just to help us understand the concepts she was teaching, the way she made us all stand up and sit down in the middle of the class to stop us from feeling drowsy in class and the way she let us take a break in class and rest a bit when we told her we hadn’t been able to sleep much the night before; she inspired and motivated us all with her actions.

I, now, understand how passion and discipline in life can make me the person I aspire to be and I have her to thank for that. I may not be able to stand up on a table, in class, and salute her and say the words but in my heart, every time I see her or think of her, I want her to know that my inner self stands up and salutes her and says – “OH CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN! ”