Perception...

If we all want an eye for an eye, the entire world will be blind
.........Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Carefully pondering on this sentence and putting it into action, we will definitely find ourselves in a dark hollow and aimlessly drowning in it without the hope of touching the solid ground of oneness, brotherhood and respect for each other. Luckily, there is still harmony left to balance out all evil. We have our children, our hope for a better tomorrow, our reason to strive hard and yet harder to provide them with sound and quality education, vital guidelines and sincere virtues.
In any society where darkness lingers in any form, brightness has to find its way to counterpart it. As adults we have responsibility for upbringing our children in clarity of both so that they are able to distinguish between the choices which are good and those which are not so good. The challenge lies when the decision has to be made between the better and the best. Such attributes need to be instilled from the very beginning. It starts by respecting one self. The potion of believing in oneself, in one's strengths and recognizing one's drawbacks and then self-correcting requires a big heart.
One cannot make it next to perfection if one has not travelled the path of mistakes. Repetition of self-correction usually leads towards perfection. The journey no doubt seems endless at the beginning but along the path lies the true definition of success. It should not be the end destination that matters but the winding hurdles and evicting them, the utmost concern. How one encounters , deals and then overcomes them, are all the ingredients of a hero in the making...a hero of a much higher caliber.

Children need not see this world as a chess board where winning is the absolute condition rather than a blank canvas on which they should be allowed to leave their own individual strokes with confidence, uniqueness and positive advancement for the society as the whole.

By: Ifra N. KHoso