What is to be a student? Is it by just going to school from Monday to Friday then go back home after school? Is that what you think what a student is? Now I tell you that you are wrong. Being a student is not just by listening to the teacher’s discussion, you learn from others, from yourself, and most of all from your own experience from having your fellowship with your classmates. Nothing can defeat the experience from being a student. Lots of hardship and lots of happy days but usually hardships cover us. Pressure also comes to us every time we have our quizzes and periodical exams.
As students, we do some routines everyday in our lives, from the sun rise until mid dusk. We need to wake up early morning to take a bath then dress up ourselves then eat and brush our teeth then go to school. When we reach to school we need to prepare our books and notebooks and some more things we need for our class. When the bell rings, we need to go out of our classroom to have our flag ceremony. After we go back to our room and there we start the class. We want something different in our academic subjects. We want it fun not boring because for me, we learn more if we have fun and not be bored. We want the subjects extraordinary but not to much.
We all know that being a student is fun but needs a lot of effort to give out. Especially in our studies we need to spend more time in studying than watching the television, going to the net and chat, texting and other useless things. I should also tell the truth that I used to watch the television and do useless things rather than studying but now since I found out that it is better to study than to do all these things that can’t benefit us.
In classrooms, we students taunt others and have fun together. Some of my classmates are expert on that. They tease some of my classmates and sometimes me. I don’t know why they do that but sometimes it is fun. If it already exceeds the limit and they deprive dignity I will really get mad and not talk to them. But I know it is part of the life of a student.
During the last three months of school, we usually have many projects to do and that is the time we need to make a lot of remedy to our grades which are less from the past grading period. This is where we are really pressured especially we are in the secondary level because it requires a lot just to pass the level and not be retained. But when we pass, it makes our heart lighter and we now become relax and we can have a relaxing summer vacation.
If we graduate our collegiate degree, we will never stop from being a student. We will learn from our mistakes and we will still learn more from other. Learn more from people who are more experience in life. They are more reliable to ask more about life. We will learn and learn more about life. We won’t stop learning.
We should not forget that at a very young age, we should be a student. We should learn about God. We need to know His Word. Jesus is our Teacher; He teaches what is right and wrong. He doesn’t want us to walk astray from Him. He wants us to stay with Him and learn about what is His purpose for our lives. He may take us now but it is nicer if we learn a lot from Him before we die and vanish in this world.
Jesus was a teacher of the twelve disciples. He taught them how to live a godly life. He taught them how to love and care for others, to be humble and to forgive. Now in this modern time, we have our Bibles so we can learn about God. We are blessed now compared to the olden times. We can have a full book of God’s Word without hiding it from the authority, we have our freedom to read it while in the olden times they need to hide it from the authority and if they would be discovered that they are reading the Bible, they will be stoned to death. Aren’t thankful enough that you can read and know God’s Word for you? This is a lifetime opportunity given to us. We also have the churches that teach us about God’s Word. For the young one they have their Sunday School that teaches them about Jesus in a fun way. In other places, they are so pitiful, if they want to have a fellowship with other they need to hide in some sort of a dungeon to have their fellowship.
This just concludes that we just do not learn from school but we learn from others, from our own experience and mistakes and most of all from the Bible. A big world waits for us and we should learn how to live with it. We can’t just stay with our parents. There is world to explore and know. Exams and test just don’t happen in school alone but in the actual life. Test of time and faith will come. It may not be now but someday will come to you. We need to listen to instructions and good suggestion to make our life better. Even thought it is tiring we need to try our best to do it and pass the test of life and learn from our mistakes. We are just like a building being built yet. We must have a strong foundation so we can grow in the right way. To live with a godly life and a life that will give pleasure to God, our Greatest Teacher and Master Molder. He will be our teacher until our last breath. Make Him your teacher this very moment. Let Him teach you the basic of life then advance to the purpose of your life. Ask Him to teach you everything that can please Him and ask help from Him if you still don’t learn from your mistakes. I am sure He will teach you if you are just willing to lend your ears to what He teaches you and be open-minded to what mistakes He will tell you and reflect on it. It will change you for the better. Remember that you are still a student even if you are old already and may everything that you learn and not become hoary.
