Personal vs Professional
With Students 2014 “How do you balance your professional and personal life?” I’ve never really understood that question though I’ve heard it umpteen times, the latest being at a blog hop community. In fact, I’m writing this only because of that hop . I worked as a teacher for all of 40 years and retired last year at the age of 65. In all those years I never experienced anything like a tightrope walk between my job and personal life. I was a bachelor for the initial ten years. So I had to cook my meals, wash my clothes, fetch water from far away in summer… And prepare classes for the next day, question papers for exams, check answer sheets when exams were over… All that happened like a smoothly flowing river on the mountainous terrain of Meghalaya where I worked. Shillong remains at an elevation of 1496 metres from sea level and it has no streams, let alone rivers. The only river that flowed was my life itself. Until things went wrong and the river was riled totally. That’s the on...
