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Today’s blog post is a real incident of my life. I started teaching in 2016. In 2017, I almost let go of the opportunity that brought me to where I am. This is about realising that there are hints which you must take seriously in order to not miss an opportunity. In my case, luck favoured me. Here’s what had happened: A year after starting classes, I got good feedback from the limited students I had. Students, as well as their parents, were happy with the classes. Unfortunately, there was no growth. Despite the feedback, I had a limited number of students. As a young man of 25, I couldn’t afford this growth rate. I was not expecting a flooded classroom but considering the feedback, at least double the strength of the existing students. After contemplating about the same, I decided to stop teaching the students of CBSE board. I had to say ‘no’ to them and it was one of the toughest decisions I had to take back then. I was highly anxious about telling this to the existing students....

Nature is a great teacher. If we look around ourselves and do not learn from nature, we must be blind to ignore the lessons of the omnipresent. While every single petal, every single leaf is a lesson in itself, one lesson that appeals to me the most is the lesson of the gulmohar tree. Here is a story: He was scolded by his parents for disrupting his sleep cycle. He felt dejected. He felt angry. He didn’t want to wait for a single second in the house. He didn’t want to let his parents know that he would be away for some time. Grabbing the key of his scooter, he softly closed the door and left. To make sure his parents don’t notice anything, he pulled his scooter to the end of the lane, and when out of earshot, he switched on the ignition. After god knows how much time of riding, he spotted a field. It was nearly 6pm and the sun’s rays looked like melted gold on the green grass. He parked his scooter and sat down under a gulmohar tree. He looked up at the six feet tall tree. His eyes gli...