Dear ,

Today is Your Day! Why?

You

           Are

                       A

                                   Hero.

You may not know it. You may be thinking and teaching about the 7 national heroes, but in truth as a teacher, as an educator, so many people look up to you.

You impact the lives of generations.

Every word you speak,

Every choice you make,

Affects the lives of the children in front of you, their parents, their siblings and those in the household.

Remember to walk with humility, act with justice for all, and to love yourself with all your heart.

If you truly love yourself, you will be kind to those around you.

If you are truly strong and powerful, you will remember the weak.

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch; If you can stand to see the words you speak twisted into lies….. then, yes, you are strong and stand head and shoulders above the crowd.

While thinking of you today, I remembered this poem – If by Ruyard Kipling.

Remember teacher, you are a hero!

If— 

BY RUDYARD KIPLING

If you can keep your head when all about you   

   Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,   

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

   But make allowance for their doubting too;   

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

   Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,

Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,

   And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;   

   If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;   

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

   And treat those two impostors just the same;   

If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken

   Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,

   And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

   And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

   And never breathe a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

   To serve your turn long after they are gone,   

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

   Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,   

   Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

   If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

   With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,   

Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,   

   And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

Holding you safe

Dr. Sandra Hamilton

Confidence Builder, Rapid Transformational Therapist