By Dr Paul Bundi Human beings are endowed with remarkable resilience, which can only be broken when they choose to give up. Says Viktor Frankl in his seminal book, Man's Search for Meaning; ''it is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future-sub specie aeternitatis. And this is his salvation in thd most difficult moments of his existence, although he sometimes has to force his mind to the task.'' Man's life is primarily driven by the desire for future, the unshakable belief that the future holds promise. We invariably cease to live when we think we have hit a dead end, or that there's nothing more to be had by living. Theoretically, there is no limit to man's achievement, and that is what drives men to wake up and strive day after day. The opposite is spiritual, psychological death, which manifests way ahead of physical death. Lesson? Losing today doesn't mean losing always. You can lose 10 times and win the 11th time. Or, you
By Dr Bundi Karau
Teachers, please answer me.
I have been to many schools, and I always ask students what time they do their own private reading.
It seems times have changed. In almost all schools, remedial teaching starts very early, sometimes before 5am. In some schools, even the short break after lunch is taken up for teaching. This goes on at night, and teachers sign off at 9pm.
Over weekends, you hear of maths or chemistry hour, and all the Saturday and Sundays are spent with teachers.
The syllabus is covered very early, but these students will not have a moment to reflect on their own lives and improve on their own.
During our days, and it's long time ago, most of these hours were spent alone. Those who could improve did so on their own. We figured our own ways, and I saw guys do a good job at it.
Pray, if this be the trend, when does someone realize I'm not good in something and I need my own time and effort to sort it out?
And in the end, won't we bring forth a generation that can't stand to be counted?
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