A teacher friend of mine is seriously ill recently and asked me to pace his graduating students to complete their work.
As time to final examinations is near, I offered additional time to assist pupils during my free time and received no monetary rewards in return. The first few sessions went on well. Pupils were heading for the right directions and I am pleased with what pupils have achieved. As I was happy with what I see, demands increased. I tried hard to cope with these requests, however, I was annoyed with conditions came along with them. Timing, materials, level of assistance ……. Everything changes, as when I turned down unreasonable demands, things get ugly!
Personally, I feel that the younger generations have been given much today and yet many of them do not really treasure them. As our communities give and give and give, they just take and take and take without thinking about gratitude. Very often when we help, we do not need others to appreciate what we did, but at least on the receiving end, people should learn to make things easier for the people who care about them. By demanding someone to give up their actual job just to cater to some selfish matters, have our young people be able to do them themselves? Have them spare a thought for others? I wonder …………
